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FBI to form digital currency unit, Justice Dept taps new crypto czar
The US Justice Department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team and announced that the FBI is launching a unit f...
Hackers compromise FBI email system, send thousands of messages
Hackers compromised a Federal Bureau of Investigation email system and sent tens of thousands of messages warning of a possible cyberattack, according to the agency and security sp...
Ex-US intelligence operatives in UAE hacking case will cooperate with FBI
Three former US intelligence operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates, agreed to pay fines of $1.685 million and cooperate with federal prosecutors ...
Brit arrested in Spain for role in infamous 2020 Twitter hack
A 22-year-old Brit has been arrested in Spain in connection with a July 2020 Twitter hack which compromised the accounts of high-profile politicians and celebrities, the US Justice...
Biden orders probe of latest ransomware attack
President Biden has said he has directed US intelligence agencies to investigate who was behind a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses and led t...
Like the Terminator, high-tech cyber crime to ‘keep coming’
Businesses worldwide are fighting sophisticated data scientists as they battle to protect their data-rich computers from cyber crime – and the costly attacks are not going to...
US Supreme Court restricts scope of computer fraud law
The US Supreme Court has limited the type of conduct that can be prosecuted under a federal computer fraud law, overturning a former Georgia police officer’s conviction for m...
Ransomware gangs disrupted by response to Colonial Pipeline hack
Multiple ransomware groups claimed they were shutting down or scaling back operations last week as the US government ramped up pressure while tech companies, cryptocurrency exchang...
Facebook faces prospect of ‘devastating’ data transfer ban after Irish ruling
Ireland’s data regulator can resume a probe that may trigger a ban on Facebook’s transatlantic data transfers, the High Court has ruled, raising the prospect of a stopp...
Ransom group linked to Colonial Pipeline hack is new but experienced
The ransomware group linked to the extortion attempt that has snared fuel deliveries across the east coast of America may be new, but that doesn’t mean its hackers are amateu...
White House blames Russian spy agency SVR for SolarWinds hack
The Biden-Harris White House has said in a statement that Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, was responsible for the SolarWinds hack, which led to the c...
Software vendors would have to disclose breaches under new order
A planned executive order by President Joe Biden will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies have a cybersecurity breach, acc...
White House cites ‘active threat,’ urges action despite Microsoft patch
The Biden White House has urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted amid a hack of Microsoft’s Outlook email program...
US Justice Department says its emails were breached by SolarWinds hackers
The US Department of Justice has said its email systems were obtained by the hackers who broke into software company SolarWinds, another sign of the gravity of the breach which has...
SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code, the company says
The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise managed to split Microsoft and access a number of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something specialists said deliver...
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