Ransomware Profitability
February 10 2021Analyzing cryptocurrency data, a research group has estimated a lower-bound on 2020 ransomware revenue: $350 million, four times more than in 2019. Based on the company’s data, among last year’s...
Read moreZodiac Killer Cipher Solved
December 16 2020The SF Chronicle is reporting (more details here), and the FBI is confirming, that a Melbourne mathematician and team has decrypted the 1969 message sent by the...
Read moreHow the FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Operates
September 16 2020The Grugq has written an excellent essay on how the Russian cybercriminal gang FIN7 operates. An excerpt:
The secret of FIN7’s success is their operational art of cyber crime....
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Cybercrime in the Age of COVID-19
August 4 2020The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre has a series of papers on cybercrime during the coronavirus pandemic. EDITED TO ADD (8/12): Interpol report....
Read moreBlackBerry Phone Cracked
August 3 2020Australia is reporting that a BlackBerry device has been cracked after five years: An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police...
Read moreEncroChat Hacked by Police
July 3 2020French police hacked EncroChat secure phones, which are widely used by criminals: Encrochat's phones are essentially modified Android devices, with some models using the "BQ Aquaris X2," an Android...
Read moreCriminals and the Normalization of Masks
May 20 2020I was wondering about this: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked bandits held up banks...
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