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Alexander Martin

@alexmartin
23 posts
2025-06-24
A Russian court sentenced several members of the notorious REvil ransomware gang to five years in prison but let them walk free right after the verdict, saying they had already spent enough time behind bars while awaiting trial.  —  ✍️ @darynant.bsky.social
2025-06-24 View on X
The Record

Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin

A Russian court sentenced several members of the notorious REvil ransomware gang to five years in prison but let them walk free right …

2024-10-01
Western authorities on Tuesday named Russian national Aleksandr Ryzhenkov as one of the main members of the Evil Corp cybercrime group, as well as an affiliate of the LockBit group. The US also charged him with using BitPaymer ransomware. https://therecord.media/...
2024-10-01 View on X
Bloomberg

As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders

- Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers

Eduard Benderskiy, a former high-ranking official within the Russian intelligence services, was named and sanctioned by Western law enforcement agencies on Tuesday in a paper describing him as a key enabler and protector for the Evil Corp cybercrime group. https://therecord.media/...
2024-10-01 View on X
Bloomberg

As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders

- Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers

2024-06-06
Breaking: The darknet site for the Qilin ransomware gang, believed to be behind an attack affecting multiple London hospitals, is down. It's now displaying an 0xF2 error, which most commonly occurs when a darknet site is transferred to a new server... 🤔 https://therecord.media/...
2024-06-06 View on X
New York Times

Several London hospitals face major disruptions after a June 3 ransomware attack on Synnovis, which provides blood transfusion and other services to the NHS

According to Metro, the incident has impacted transplant surgeries and blood transfusion centers.  —  https://metro.co.uk/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : You'...

The darknet extortion site for the ransomware group Qilin, suspected of being behind the cyberattack that has disrupted multiple hospitals in London, is having some serious issues at the moment. [image]
2024-06-06 View on X
New York Times

Several London hospitals face major disruptions after a June 3 ransomware attack on Synnovis, which provides blood transfusion and other services to the NHS

According to Metro, the incident has impacted transplant surgeries and blood transfusion centers.  —  https://metro.co.uk/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : You'...

2023-07-01
A notable Russian cybersecurity expert was detained in Kazakhstan last week at the request of the U.S., prompting authorities in Moscow to today issue their own extradition request in a bid to battle for whose custody he ends up in. ✍️ @Daryna_Antoniuk https://therecord.media/...
2023-07-01 View on X
Krebs on Security

Kazakhstan arrests ex-Group-IB executive Nikita Kislitsin for his alleged role in the 2012 LinkedIn and Dropbox hacks; US and Russia issue extradition requests

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :

2023-04-05
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Genesis Market, one of the world's largest platforms for cyber fraud, has just been seized in an FBI-led operation involving more than dozen international partners. Story here: https://therecord.media/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-05 View on X
The Record

The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data

Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners …

2023-03-17
Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times, with voters heading to the ballot boxes in🇬🇧🇺🇸 🇪🇺 as well as 🇮🇳🇹🇷 🇹🇼. Great to speak to @benimmo and Eric Hutchins about Meta's new Online Operations Kill Chain. ⏬ https://therecord.media/...
2023-03-17 View on X
The Record

Q&A with two of Meta's leading security experts about its Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threat activity like influence operations

Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times.

2023-02-10
BREAKING: This is the first time the UK has issued sanctions against a ransomware group amid a growing number of high-profile attacks in the country, potentially meaning that companies who make an extortion payment could now be in breach of the law. https://therecord.media/...
2023-02-10 View on X
The Record

The US and the UK sanction seven people based in Russia, with likely FSB ties, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan

on par with terrorism and military crisis between states. Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk : Russian Cybercrime Gang Trickbot Sanctioned by US, UK Maggie Miller / Politico : U.S., U.K. sa...

2022-11-25
OMG 😂 Not only have they taken down iSpoof's homepage, but this is what @metpoliceuk uploaded to the service's Telegram channel — basically mocking iSpoof's existing advertising video. This is beautiful. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-25 View on X
BleepingComputer

UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online phone number spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind

The ‘iSpoof’ online spoofing service has been dismantled following an international law enforcement investigation that also led …

2022-11-24
OMG 😂 Not only have they taken down iSpoof's homepage, but this is what @metpoliceuk uploaded to the service's Telegram channel — basically mocking iSpoof's existing advertising video. This is beautiful. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-24 View on X
BleepingComputer

UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online phone number spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind

The ‘iSpoof’ online spoofing service has been dismantled following an international law enforcement investigation that also led …

2022-09-04
New: Samsung has confirmed it “recently” discovered a cybersecurity incident in late July in which an unauthorised third party accessed customers' personal information from some of the company's US systems. https://www.samsung.com/...
2022-09-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

2022-09-03
New: Samsung has confirmed it “recently” discovered a cybersecurity incident in late July in which an unauthorised third party accessed customers' personal information from some of the company's US systems. https://www.samsung.com/...
2022-09-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.

2022-03-05
Following Mark's reporting below, a spokesperson for Telegram said it is complying with the EU law requiring these channels to be blocked and has asked for a list of any that are still up to be sent to the company. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-05 View on X
Politico

Telegram says it is blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in the EU, including all RT channels, starting for users who signed in with an EU-based phone number

RT, in English, Spanish, Germany, French & Russia, have a colletive audience of over 1 million people via their official accounts. FWIW, these break EU sanctions https://www.politi...

2022-01-17
Of course there are significant differences between end-to-end encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and social networking platforms like Facebook, as covered here: https://news.sky.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-17 View on X
Rolling Stone

The UK government hires ad agency M&C Saatchi to run a publicity campaign criticizing Meta's plans to make Messenger end-to-end encrypted by default

only because the UK gov would be happy to let competitors throw Facebook under the bus. But not the long term. Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : If somehow it looked like we were ...

In case you missed my story about the police failures in the Abdul Elahi case, it seems disingenuous of the government and police to criticise end-to-end encrypted services when wrongly tell abuse victims that there isn't a way to investigate them: https://news.sky.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-17 View on X
Rolling Stone

The UK government hires ad agency M&C Saatchi to run a publicity campaign criticizing Meta's plans to make Messenger end-to-end encrypted by default

only because the UK gov would be happy to let competitors throw Facebook under the bus. But not the long term. Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : If somehow it looked like we were ...

2021-12-01
Sky News understands that Meta will appeal the decision, although the formal process not yet begun. It has four weeks to do so and the appeal would first go to a CMA tribunal. After that Meta could potentially challenge that ruling in the UK courts, but only on points of law. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-01 View on X
The Verge

UK's CMA orders Meta to sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, social media users, and UK advertisers

After its investigation found it could harm competition  —  The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that Facebook parent … Source: GOV.UK .

2021-11-30
Sky News understands that Meta will appeal the decision, although the formal process not yet begun. It has four weeks to do so and the appeal would first go to a CMA tribunal. After that Meta could potentially challenge that ruling in the UK courts, but only on points of law. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-30 View on X
The Verge

UK's CMA says Meta must sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm social media users, rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, and UK advertisers

After its investigation found it could harm competition  —  The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that Facebook parent … Source: GOV.UK .

2021-08-10
New: Apple has responded to concerns that its CSAM detection system could be used to detect things other than abuse images. Source, Page 5: https://www.apple.com/... cc @rossjanderson @sjmurdoch @pwnallthethings https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-10 View on X
Stratechery

Apple's plan to find CSAM should have centered around scanning images on iCloud servers, not on users' devices, where there is a greater expectation of privacy

including a number of non-obvious but critical ones. It's also why hypos as a threat assessment tool will only get you so far. https://twitter.com/... Greg Howell / @g_howell : @ma...

New: Apple has responded to concerns that its CSAM detection system could be used to detect things other than abuse images. Source, Page 5: https://www.apple.com/... cc @rossjanderson @sjmurdoch @pwnallthethings https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-10 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple publishes a CSAM FAQ to address misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning

Apple has responded to misconceptions and concerns about its photo scanning announcements by publishing a CSAM FAQ - answering frequently asked questions about the features. Source...