Department of Justice (DOJ)
DOJ Shuts Down Another North Korean ‘Laptop Farm’
The DOJ shut down another "laptop farm" link to a North Korean fake IT worker scam that the country uses to illegally bring in money for its nuclear and ballistic weapons program ...
US, UK Accuse China of Years-Long Cyberespionage Campaign
The United States, the UK, and other countries this week accused a state-sponsored Chinese threat group of running a massive global hacking campaign for more than a decade that targeted political figures, ...
DOJ Warns Using AI in Crimes Will Mean Harsher Sentences
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco last month was in the UK speaking at the University of Oxford and outlining the different paths the Justice Department is taking to address the benefits ...
State Department Puts Up $10 Million for Info on LockBit Leaders
A day after U.S. and international law enforcement agencies disrupted the operations of notorious ransomware group LockBit, the State Department is offering up to $15 million in rewards for information about the ...
DOJ Seizes Ransomware Site as BlackCat Threatens More Attacks
U.S. law enforcement agencies said they shut down the online operations of the notorious Russia-linked BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group and developed a decryption tool that will help more than 500 victims regain ...
DOJ Reorganizes Units to Better Fight Ransomware
The DOJ’s two-year-old National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) will merge with its Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) ...
Hacker Stole $3B Bitcoin — Yes, ‘Crypto’ is Garbage
James Zhong admitted to stealing 50,000 bitcoins from the former dark web market, Silk Road—the DoJ has the gory story ...
Chinese Huawei ‘Spies’ Charged — FBI is Mad as Hell
The Chinese government sent two spies to extract information about the U.S. case against Huawei. But they didn’t expect their contact to be a double agent ...
New DoJ Strategic Plan Targets Cyberattacks, Ransomware
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to make the prosecution of cybercriminals and the disruption of ransomware attacks key objectives of its new strategic plan, which includes the enhancement of ...
