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A Shakeup in Russia’s Top Cybercrime Unit

January 28, 2017 admin chronopay, crutop, FBI, FSB, Humpty Dumpty, idefense, Indrik, kaspersky lab, Kimberly Zenz, King Servers, Other, pavel vrublevsky, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergey Mikhaylov, Spam Nation, ThreatConnect, Шалтай-Болтай

A chief criticism I heard from readers of my book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime, was that it dealt primarily with petty crooks involved in petty crimes, while ignoring more substantive security issues like government surveillance and cyber war. But now it appears that the chief antagonist of Spam Nation is at the dead center of an international scandal involving the hacking of U.S. state electoral boards in Arizona and Illinois, the sacking of Russia’s top cybercrime investigators, and the slow but steady leak of unflattering data on some of Russia’s most powerful politicians.

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The Download on the DNC Hack

January 23, 2017 admin Andrew Kramer, Dmitry Artimovich, DNC hack, Donald Trump, Festi, Forbes, Kaleev Leetaru, King Servers, Nina Agrawal, Other, power grid hack, Rolling Stone, Spam Nation, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ThreatConnect, Vladimir M. Fomenko

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with questions from readers asking why I haven’t written much about two stories that have consumed the news media of late: The alleged Russian hacking attacks against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and, more recently, the discovery of malware on a laptop at a Vermont power utility that has been attributed to Russian hacker groups. I’ve avoided covering these stories mainly because I don’t have any original reporting to add to them, and because I generally avoid chasing the story of the day — preferring instead to focus on producing original journalism on cybercrime and computer security.