The U.S. is offering rewards for information on leaders of the LockBit ransomware group. LockBit is a syndicate operating since 2019. It accounted for 23 percent of the nearly 4,000 attacks globally last year in which ransomware gangs posted data stolen from victims to extort payment, according to the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, per … Read more
The FBI and other agencies have disrupted a ransomware syndicate, known as LockBit, that was behind a series of global cyberattacks that extracted at least $120 million, according to the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). “Today, after infiltrating the group’s network, the NCA has taken control of LockBit’s services, compromising their entire criminal enterprise,” … Read more
By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Marshall Cohen | CNN Special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant with lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement in business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, undercutting a major aspect of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president. Alexander Smirnov, 43, is … Read more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it successfully disrupted a Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated the routers of homes and small business. The department said it “neutralized a network” of hundreds of small office and home office routers in a court-authorized operation. The operations copied and deleted “stolen and malicious” data and files from routers … Read more
Colorado legislators are set to give new anti-fraud powers to state Medicaid authorities, months after regulators uncovered an unprecedented, multimillion-dollar scheme allegedly perpetrated by a group of medical transportation providers. Legislators introduced a bill this week that would allow the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to temporarily suspend Medicaid providers if regulators … Read more
Washington — Hackers backed by the Chinese government are targeting U.S. water treatment plants and electrical grids, strategically positioning themselves within critical infrastructure systems to “wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities,” FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to tell Congress Wednesday. “There has been far too little public focus on … Read more
A Philippine pastor linked to former president Rodrigo Duterte has been accused of repeatedly raping women and telling them to “sacrifice” their bodies to the “appointed son of god”, in the latest revelations from a senate probe into sex-trafficking allegations facing the sect leader. Apollo Quiboloy, who is Duterte’s spiritual adviser, heads the Kingdom of … Read more
The lives changed by Jan. 6 attacks The lives changed by Jan. 6 attacks 09:45 Authorities arrested three Jan. 6 fugitives on Saturday, three years to the day after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The three people being sought were: Jonathan Daniel Pollock, Olivia Michele Pollock and Joseph Daniel … Read more
A Colorado man accused of entering U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to three years of probation this week. Hunter Palm, who was arrested in Denver in May 2021, pleaded guilty to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, … Read more
A foreign exchange student has been found after being reported missing last week, according to local authorities. The student, Kai Zhuang, had been staying with a host family in Riverdale, Utah, at the time of the incident. Riverdale Police said they received a report of a kidnapping Friday. “Officers were contacted by the high school … Read more
