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Andrew Thompson

@imposecost
31 posts
2025-11-04
Attribution matters. https://chicago.suntimes.com/ ... [image]
2025-11-04 View on X
CyberScoop

US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware

The alleged cybersecurity turncoats attacked at least five U.S. companies while working for their respective employers, officials said.

2025-01-21
47's EO on TikTok. I've not read every EO ever, but I'm not familiar with another that tells the government to not enforce a law. I'm curious how this is going to go. https://www.whitehouse.gov/... [image]
2025-01-21 View on X
NPR

Trump signs an EO seeking to pause the TikTok ban for 75 days, in a bid to give him time to negotiate a resolution and protect TikTok's providers from liability

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday seeking to hit pause on a law banning TikTok and to provide a liability shield …

2025-01-05
Follow @DakotaInDC and his work for expert content on this subject: “Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Integrity Technology Group” https://home.treasury.gov/... [image]
2025-01-05 View on X
TechCrunch

The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group over its alleged links to attacks by China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon

home.treasury.gov/news/press- r... Steve Herman / @newsguy : US imposes sanctions on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech, which has links to China's Ministry of ...

2025-01-04
Follow @DakotaInDC and his work for expert content on this subject: “Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Integrity Technology Group” https://home.treasury.gov/... [image]
2025-01-04 View on X
TechCrunch

The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology over its alleged links to China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon

home.treasury.gov/news/press- r... Steve Herman / @newsguy : US imposes sanctions on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech, which has links to China's Ministry of ...

2025-01-01
“Anonymously extorting the President and VP as a member of the military is a bad idea, but it's an even worse idea to harass people who specialize in de-anonymizing cybercriminals.” -@nixonnixoff 🥶😮‍💨 U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
2025-01-01 View on X
Krebs on Security

The US arrests a US Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, who sold sensitive customer call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon in the Snowflake hack

Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m …

2024-08-26
I'm always interested in these kinds of cases. Can you imagine Mark Zuckerberg getting arrested due to content posted on Facebook?
2024-08-26 View on X
Politico

French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”

French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.

I'm always interested in these kinds of cases. Can you imagine Mark Zuckerberg getting arrested due to content posted on Facebook?
2024-08-26 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation

Related by education: Saint Petersburg State University BBC : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport Jones Hayden / Politico : Telegram CEO reportedly arrested at Fren...

2024-08-25
I'm always interested in these kinds of cases. Can you imagine Mark Zuckerberg getting arrested due to content posted on Facebook?
2024-08-25 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on the app

Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly …

2024-05-30
911 S5 Botnet Dismantled and Its Administrator Arrested in Coordinated International Operation A court-authorized international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a botnet used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation,
2024-05-30 View on X
Associated Press

Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains

Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …

2024-04-17
This is a long time coming. 🇷🇺APT44: Unearthing Sandworm: https://services.google.com/ ... [image]
2024-04-17 View on X
Wired

Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm

Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin's Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn't dare to.

2024-03-07
Chinese National Residing in California Arrested for Theft of Artificial Intelligence-Related Trade Secrets from Google ✅ Attribution Matters ✅ Impose Cost https://www.justice.gov/...
2024-03-07 View on X
Associated Press

The US DOJ charges former Google software engineer Linwei Ding with stealing AI trade secrets from Google while secretly working with two China-based companies

A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company …

2024-02-20
They need to give these two LockBit actors minimum 20 years in prison. If they slap them with the normal 7, it's weak.
2024-02-20 View on X
BleepingComputer

Law enforcement agencies arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue three arrest warrants, offer a decryption tool, and seize 200+ crypto wallets

Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …

2023-11-28
“The individuals under investigation are believed to be part of a network responsible for a series of high-profile ransomware attacks against organisations in 71 countries.” Attribution matters; impose cost; attack the network. https://www.europol.europa.eu/ ...
2023-11-28 View on X
BleepingComputer

Europol, Norway, the US, Ukraine, and other countries arrest members of a ransomware group in Ukraine linked to attacks on organizations in 71 countries

In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members …

2023-11-15
Excellent story and great mentions of ⁦⁦@nixonnixoff⁩. Attribution does matter, and we shouldn't just assume adversaries are beyond the reach of our governments. https://www.wired.com/...
2023-11-15 View on X
Wired

Three young hackers behind Mirai talk about building the DDoS botnet, losing control of their monster, their work for the FBI as part of a plea deal, and more

Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack.  All down for millions of people.  How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld …

2023-08-09
“You do not survive in security without being adaptable and innovative.” Layoffs hitting Rapid7; be on the look out to provide support and hire talent. https://www.rapid7.com/...
2023-08-09 View on X
The Boston Globe

Boston-based cybersecurity company Rapid7 lays off 18% of its workforce, or around 470 people, and reports Q2 revenue rose 14% YoY to $190M and a $67M net loss

The Boston-based cybersecurity firm said the cuts will enable it to continue to grow while also freeing up cash

2023-04-25
I'm most interested in how AI can make us more efficient in security and intelligence. Our adversaries are humans using technology to achieve their ends; I expect we will always need humans to counter them, but AI will make doing hard things easier. https://cloud.google.com/...
2023-04-25 View on X
VentureBeat

Google announces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, powered by the Sec-PaLM LLM, to rival tools like Microsoft's GPT-4-based Security Copilot

https://cloud.google.com/... Phil Venables : Immense set of generative AI announcements from our cloud security product team.  —  https://cloud.google.com/... Tweets: Phil Venables...

2023-03-29
Mandiant Intelligence is pleased to bring you 🇰🇵APT43, a prolific cyber operator that supports the interests of the North Korean regime. We believe APT43 funds itself through cybercrime to support its primary mission of collecting foreign intelligence. https://www.mandiant.com/...
2023-03-29 View on X
Wired

Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers

A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.

2023-02-02
“Indeed, a number of technology providers, including Google, Amazon, and Salesforce, are moving in this direction, providing strong security measures by default for their customers and introducing innovative advances toward security by design.” https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-02 View on X
Foreign Affairs

CISA Director Jen Easterly and Executive Assistant Director Eric Goldstein say incentives for developing and selling tech should not eclipse customer safety

> - Secure products not just security products - Security built in not bolted on - Raise everyone's baseline by reducing the [total] cost of control @CISAJen https://www.foreignaff...

2022-06-18
“At three of the victim locations, with consent, investigators replaced the compromised devices with government-controlled computers (i.e., honeypots), and all three were subsequently compromised by RSOCKS.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-18 View on X
The Record

The US DOJ says RSocks, a Russian botnet used to hijack millions of devices worldwide for use as proxy servers, was disrupted in an international operation

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the U.S. and international law enforcement partners in the United Kingdom, Germany …

2022-04-04
Attribution matters; impose cost. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-04 View on X
BBC

UK police charge a 16-year-old with five counts and a 17-year-old with six counts of cyber offenses related to the Lapsus$ gang; the teenagers remain in custody