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Treasury Sanctions SUEX Exchange for Laundering Ransoms

| | cryptocurrency exchange, Ransomware, sanctions, U.S. Treasury Department
The Biden administration fired another shot in its battle against ransomware Tuesday as the U.S. Treasury Department took steps to disrupt the financial infrastructure behind ransoms, designating for sanctions the SUEX OTC, ...
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Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments

Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments

| | amazon, cisco, Department of Homeland Security, disrupting ransomware payments, Emsisoft, Europol, FBI, fireeye, Institute for Security and Technology, mcafee, Microsoft, Philip Reiner, Ransomware, The Coming Storm, The Wall Street Journal, U.K. National Crime Agency, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Treasury Department
Some of the world's top tech firms are backing a new industry task force focused on disrupting cybercriminal ransomware gangs by limiting their ability to get paid, and targeting the individuals and ...
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Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

| | A Little Sunshine, CVE-2020-4006, Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Administration, Democratic National Committee, FBI, fireeye, GoldMax, Lexicon.exe, Microsoft, National Security Agency, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, solarwinds-hack, Sunshuttle, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Commerce Department, U.S. Treasury Department, VirusTotal, VMware
On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Last month, Microsoft and FireEye ...
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U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

| | APT29, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Data breaches, Department of Commerce, FireEye hack, Microsoft, Orion, Reuters, SolarWinds breach, The Coming Storm, U.S. Treasury Department
Communications at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments were reportedly compromised by a supply chain attack on SolarWinds, a security vendor that helps the federal government and a range of Fortune 500 ...
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Two Russians Charged in $17M Cryptocurrency Phishing Spree

Two Russians Charged in $17M Cryptocurrency Phishing Spree

| | Binance, Danil Potekhin, Dmitirii Karasavidi, Ethereum, Gemini, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Poloniex, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Treasury Department
U.S. authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and ...
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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

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The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network ...
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