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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The US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Former BreachForums admin to be jailed until Jan. 19 sentencing

Cybercrime

People walk past a store of Kyivstar, a Ukrainian telecommunications company, in Kyiv on December 12, 2023. (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP)

Russian hackers reportedly breached telecom network months before attack

Geopolitics

OTTAWA, CANADA: The United States Embassy building is viewed from the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel on June 30, 2012 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

The FBI is adding more cyber-focused agents to U.S. embassies

Geopolitics

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Microsoft seizes infrastructure of top cybercrime group

Cybercrime

A woman walks by a Kyivstar store, a Ukrainian telecommunications company, in Kyiv on December 12, 2023. Ukraine’s main phone operator denounced an act of “war” on December 12, 2023 after the hacker attack that led to large-scale failures in its services. (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP / Getty Images)

Ukraine’s largest mobile communications provider down after apparent cyber attack

Cybersecurity

Flag of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Manuel Augusto Moreno)

North Korean hacking ops continue to exploit Log4Shell

Geopolitics

A police car goes past the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, and Lubyanka Square in front of it in central Moscow on March 3, 2023. (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

US and British authorities sanction, indict Russian hackers

Geopolitics

The American actor Elijah Wood, pictured here at a Hollywood premiere in March, was one of the American actors tricked into recording videos used in a Kremlin information operation. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Russian information operation uses US celebrity Cameos to attack Zelensky

Geopolitics

The North Korean flag files over the North Korean embassy in Beijing, 18 July 2007. (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. government sanctions prolific North Korean cyber espionage unit

Geopolitics