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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Law enforcement seizure notice posted to the BreachForums website Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (CyberScoop)

BreachForums, a key English-language cybercrime forum, seized by the FBI

Cybercrime

Paramedics taking patient on stretcher from ambulance to hospital. ( FangXiaNuo/Getty Images)

Ransomware used in attack that disrupted US hospitals

Cybercrime

Hospital beds. (Zhenjin Li/Getty Images)

Major health care system hobbled by ‘cyber incident’

Cybercrime

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

Boeing confirms attempted $200 million ransomware extortion attempt

Cybercrime

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)

How an Iranian-linked influence campaign pivoted after Oct. 7 attack on Israel

Geopolitics

A pedestrian walks past a seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation”, displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building, in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

US, UK authorities unmask Russian national as LockBit administrator

Ransomware

User data breach illustration. (Suebsiri/Getty Images)

Far-right websites hacked and defaced

Cybercrime

Stickers sit on a table at a polling location on November 8, 2022 in Atlanta, United States. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Cyberattack hits Georgia county at center of voting software breach

Government

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)

Iranian nationals charged with hacking U.S. companies, Treasury and State departments

Geopolitics