August 2024

U.S. Releases Russian Hackers in Diplomatic Prisoner Exchange

In an unprecedented prisoner swap involving Belarus, Germany, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, and the United States, two Russian individuals serving sentences related to cybercrime have been released and returned to their home nation. This includes Vladislav Klyushin and Roman Valerevich Seleznev, two of the eight individuals who were transferred back to Russia in exchange for the

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INTERPOL Recovers $41 Million From Singapore BEC Scam

According to INTERPOL, it created a “global stop-payment mechanism” that made it possible to retrieve the most amount of money ever stolen in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. This event follows the mid-July 2024 BEC scam victimisation of an unidentified Singaporean commodities firm. It is a kind of cybercrime in which a malevolent actor

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