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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Ahead of 2024 election, Meta worries about lack of information on top-tier nation-state covert operations

Geopolitics

Aerial view of a water treatment plant. (Getty Images)

Pennsylvania water facility hit by Iran-linked hackers

Threats

Image taken from a video shared by the Ukraine Cyber Police Tuesday. (Ukraine Cyber Police)

Ransomware gang broken up in Ukraine as a result of international operation

Cybercrime

A picture taken on November 23, 2023, shows an Israeli flag near the Dome of the Rock shrine, Islam’s third holiest site, in Jerusalem’s Old City. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Shadowy hacking group targeting Israel shows outsized capabilities

Threats

The Boeing Company headquarters are shown January 25, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Ransomware groups rack up victims among corporate America

Cybercrime

Ukraine’s national flag flies in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. (GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Senior Ukrainian cybersecurity officials sacked amid corruption probe

Government

Caesars Palace Hotel sits along Las Vegas Blvd, along the strip in Las Vegas, NV on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images)

U.S. officials urge more information sharing on prolific cybercrime group

Cybercrime

IDF reservists walk through an area near the Gaza border on November 13, 2023 in Southern Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Pro-Palestinian hacking group evolves tactics amid war

Geopolitics

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Cyber ops linked to Israel-Hamas conflict largely improvised, researchers say

Cybersecurity