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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PARASKOVIIVKA, UKRAINE – DECEMBER 17: An electric substation of salt mine on December 17, 2022 in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine. Now local residents remain in the village and the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There is no electricity, the village is under constant shelling. Communication works only on the pedestrian bridge via the railway. The salt mines of the state enterprise “Artemsil” stopped working due to hostilities at the end of May. (Photo by Vitalii Pavlenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russian hackers disrupted Ukrainian electrical grid last year

Threats

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Microsoft upgrades security for signing keys in wake of Chinese breach

Technology

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Four dozen countries declare they won’t pay ransomware ransoms

Geopolitics

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Kaspersky reveals ‘elegant’ malware resembling NSA code

Threats

Most of the exterior building lights at Caesars Palace are turned off as parts of the Las Vegas Strip go dark as a result of the statewide shutdown due to the coronavirus continuing to spread across the United States on March 19, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Hackers that breached Las Vegas casinos rely on violent threats, research shows

Cybercrime

A Palestinian man walks amid the rubble of buildings hit in Israeli air strikes in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Cyber operations linked to Israel-Hamas fighting gain momentum

Geopolitics

A seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation” is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington, DC, o August 9, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Police seize Ragnar Locker leak site

Cybercrime

Fighters from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, attend a memorial service for the leader of the brigade Ibrahim Abu Al-Naja in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 10, 2017, after he was killed in an “accidental explosion” earlier in the month. (SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas-linked app offers window into cyber infrastructure, possible links to Iran

Threats

The Cisco Systems logo is displayed at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on February 25, 2019. (GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP)

Unidentified attackers breach tens of thousands of Cisco devices

Threats