AJ Vicens

AJ covers nation-state threats and cybercrime. He was previously a reporter at Mother Jones. Get in touch via Signal/WhatsApp: (810-206-9411).

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 10, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

DOJ, FBI disrupt Russian intelligence botnet

Geopolitics

This illustration photograph taken on October 30, 2023, shows the Meta (former Facebook) logo. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images)

Meta details actions against eight spyware firms

Threats

This picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing following Israeli bombardments over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 13, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Google: Iranian, regional hacking operations that target Israel remain opportunistic but focused

Geopolitics

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Atlassian vulnerability at fault in GAO breach

Cybercrime

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Feds: Chinese hacking operations have been in critical infrastructure networks for five years

Threats

An Iranian flag waves in a wind outside the Vienna International Centre hosting the United Nations (UN) headquarters and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the socalled EU 5+1 talks with Iran take place in Vienna, on July 3, 2014. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Microsoft: Iran is refining its cyber operations

Government

A developer works on a late-night project. (PeopleImages/Getty Images)

Google: Governments need to do more to combat commercial spyware

Technology

The US Treasury building in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. government sanctions Iranian officials over Pennsylvania water facility hack

Threats

Director of the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly prepares to testify at a House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Photo by Julia Nikhinson / AFP)

CISA orders Ivanti devices targeted by Chinese hackers be disconnected

Government