The U.S. Justice Department announced the names of two Phobos ransomware affiliates arrested yesterday in Thailand, charging them on 11 counts due to their involvement in more than a thousand cyberattacks. The two men, Roman Berezhnoy (33) and Egor Nikolaevich Glebov (39) are both Russian citizens, active in the ransomware space between May 2019 and at least October 2024. The DoJ says …
Read More »PHL mobile operators urged to adopt RCS messaging standard
PHILIPPINE MOBILE network operators (MNOs) should consider the adoption of the rich communication services (RCS) standard to provide Filipinos with upgraded and secure messaging options, global cloud communications platform Infobip said. “I really hope the Philippines will be in the radar because this is a very engaged market when it comes to communications and all activities that are related to …
Read More »US charges operators of cryptomixers linked to ransomware gangs
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted three operators of sanctioned Blender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixer services used by ransomware gangs and North Korean hackers to launder ransoms and stolen cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency mixers allow the mixing of deposited crypto assets among many wallet addresses to help obfuscate their source. The services then take a commission from all laundered crypto deposited before …
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