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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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 08, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump campaign says emails were hacked, jumpstarting ‘a wild ride’ to election day

Geopolitics

Jen Easterly, director of the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during a hearing by the House (Select) Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Committee on Capitol Hill on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Easterly: Potential Chinese cyberattack could unfold like CrowdStrike error

Geopolitics

Austria’s Tjebbe Kaindl rides past Grand Palais as he competes in the cycling race, during the mixed’s relay triathlon, at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in central Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)

French Olympic venue and cultural site targeted in cyberattack

Ransomware

Roman Seleznev, in a picture taken from his phone (Source: DoJ)

Jailed cybercriminals returned to Russia in historic prisoner swap

Geopolitics

A view of the Microsoft corporate logo in front of the Microsoft Office building on 41st street and 8th avenue on July 19, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)

Microsoft seizes domain used by Vietnamese group to sell fake accounts, services

Cybercrime

The logo of American cloud computing and virtualization technology company VMware is seen at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on March 2, 2023. (Photo by JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Microsoft calls out apparent ESXi vulnerability that some researchers say is a ‘nothing burger’

Threats

This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of “CrowdStrike” cybersecurity technology company in Paris on July 19, 2024, amid massive global IT outage. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

Low-level cybercriminals are pouncing on CrowdStrike-connected outage

Cybercrime

An exterior view shows the marquee at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino left of the Leo the Lion statue on the Las Vegas Strip on August 28, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Police nab 17-year-old linked to group behind MGM Resorts cyberattack

Cybercrime

This photograph taken in Lyon, eastern France, on September 5, 2023 shows the entrance of the International Criminal Police Organization headquarters, known as Interpol. (Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE/AFP via Getty Images)

300 arrests made in crackdown of West African cyber fraud group

Cybercrime