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US charges hacker for breaching brokerage accounts, securities fraud

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged Idris Dayo Mustapha for a range of cybercrime activities that took place between 2011 and 2018, resulting in financial losses estimated to over $5,000,000. […]

09 May

Dell, Apple, Netflix face lawsuits for pulling services out of Russia

A Moscow Arbitration Court has reportedly seized almost $11 million belonging to Dell LLC after the company failed to provide paid-for services to a local system integrator. […]

07 May

UK sanctions Russian microprocessor makers, banning them from ARM

The UK government added 63 Russian entities to its sanction list on Wednesday. Among them are Baikal Electronics and MCST (Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies), the two most important chip makers in Russia. […]

06 May

SheetJS ditches npm registry over 2FA requirement and ‘legal matters’

In a surprising move, the popular open source project, SheetJS aka “xlsx,” has dropped support for the npm registry. Downloaded about 1.4 million times every week on npm, SheetJS is relied upon by NodeJS developers looking to craft and parse Excel spreadsheets using nothing but JavaScript. […]

21 Apr

U.S. Treasury sanctions Russian cryptocurrency mining companies

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced a new package of sanctions targeting parties that facilitate evasion of previous measures imposed on Russia. […]

08 Apr

US eases sanctions that may lead to Russia’s Internet isolation

Today, the U.S. has announced exemptions on previously imposed sanctions on Russia related to telecommunications and internet-based communications, likely to prevent Russians from being isolated from Western news sources. […]

01 Apr

EU draft law adds security checks to all crypto transactions

The European Parliament has taken the first steps for new legislation against money-laundering that covers cryptocurrency transactions, which are an important part of illicit activities today. […]

10 Mar

REvil ransomware member extradited to U.S. to stand trial for Kaseya attack

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that alleged REvil ransomware affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, was extradited to the United States last week to stand trial for the Kaseya cyberattack. […]

04 Mar

Experts urge EU not to force insecure certificates in web browsers

A group of 38 cybersecurity professors and IT experts worldwide, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have cosigned a letter to EU regulators that warns of a proposal that could expose internet users to cybercrime. […]

23 Feb

Nigerian hacker pleads guilty to stealing payroll deposits

A Nigerian national named Charles Onus has pled guilty in the District Court of the Southern District of New York to hacking into a payroll company’s user accounts and stealing payroll deposits. […]

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