DOJ (Department of Justice)
Audit: FBI is Losing Track of Storage Devices Holding Sensitive Data
DOJ inspectors have found the FBI is not labeling hard drives and other storage devices holding sensitive that are slated for destruction, making them hard to track, and that boxes of them ...
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Feds Disrupt Botnet Used by Russian APT28 Hackers
Jeffrey Burt | | APT28, Botnet disruption, china espionage, DOJ (Department of Justice), FBI, russia hacker
Federal law enforcement kicked Russian state hackers off a botnet comprising at least hundreds of home office and small office routers that had been pulled together by a cybercriminal group and co-opted ...
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US Authorities Shut Down Sites Selling the WarZone RAT
An FBI-led international operation this month seized several domains that were used to sell the notorious WarZone malware that BlackBerry researchers once described as “the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) of choice for ...
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IPStrom Takedown Russian Mastermind Pleads Guilty
Wajahat Raja | | botnet, cybercrime, Cybercrime Crackdown, Cybercriminal, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Collaboration, Cybersecurity Measures, Cybersecurity News, DOJ (Department of Justice), Golang-based Botnet, internet security, ipstorm botnet, IPStrom, law enforcement, Malware, Qakbot Threat, Russian hacker, Sergei Makinin, takedown
On Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, the United States (US) government initiated the IPStrom takedown, Russian mastermind pled guilty to being the brains behind the operation. The IPStrom malware network was taken down ...