The United States Department of Justice has announced the arrest & conviction of James Zhong. Zhong defrauded online marketplace Silk Road of 50,676.17 Bitcoin in 2012. The current value of Bitcoin places this value at approx. $1,049,989,971.

More info:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction

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Ransomware Operator, a Bug Pokemon, these pokemon are typically found on Domain Controllers and are most active on American holidays, weekends, or night-shifts

Please do not go into a popular Discord server and tell 15,000+ people the default password to your local government

tl;dr Peaches rhymes with Breaches

It was unveiled today Norton Life Lock, and Avast anti-virus, will be merging to form the most unfriendly SEO name in modern history

We have finished aggregating malware related papers from the Russian cyber security forum XSS. It is 118 papers in total

NOTE: Papers which contained broken images, or papers which resembled how-to guides were not pulled.

Check it out here: https://www.vx-underground.org/russian.html

The new check mark system has resulted in Threat Actors successfully impersonating Twitter and defrauding users out of money

Although the account is now suspended, it rapidly got 35,000+ retweets and 4,990 likes.

A simple $8 investment can result in thousands of dollars stolen.

Today the United States Department of Justice announced the arrest of an alleged high-profile member of Lockbit ransomware group

Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, a Russian national currently residing in Ontario, Canada, is awaiting extradition to the United States

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-charged-participation-lockbit-global-ransomware-campaign

EDIT: We would like to issue a correction to this Telegram post. The term we used, 'high-profile member', is ambiguous and may be misleading to some readers. This individual was an affiliate, he was not in a managerial role (or development role) in Lockbit group.

Today the United States National Security Agency (NSA) announced they will be making a strategic shift to memory safe programming languages. The NSA suggests organizations explore such changes themselves by utilizing languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby™, or Swift®

tl;dr ew

Hackers when you mention C/C++ or Rust

Red Canary Threat Intelligence, if you're going to use a vx-underground meme to convey a message in your marketing advertisement, you should 200% donate to us.

A Threat Actor claims to have breached United States Congress