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Security News for the Week Ending January 21, 2022

January 21, 2022 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Russia Arrests Some REvil Gang Members At this point we don’t know who they ticked off, but Putin’s goons arrested 14 people and seized 426 million Roubles (about $5.5 million), $600,000 USD, 500,000 euros, computers and 20 cars. These guys definitely will not be getting a Christmas card from Vlad next year. Credit: Yahoo News […]

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Russian Hacker Caught

February 18, 2015 mitch tanenbaum

Alleged Russian hacker Validimir Drinkman, 34, was arraigned yesterday on hacking into 16 companies including The NASDAQ stock exchange, 7-11, J.C. Penney, Dow Jones, Heartland Payment Systems and others and stealing 160 million credit card numbers (see article). The attacks go as far back as 2005. Brian Krebs provides an inventory of some of […]

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