‘Be Careful Who You Bite’: An Interview With the Businessman at the Center of One of Russia’s Biggest Treason Scandals
In 2013, Pavel Vrublevsky’s life turned upside down. After ten years of running a successful payments firm called ChronoPay, the Russian internet entrepreneur was convicted of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against a competing payments system used by Russian airline Aeroflot. Vrublevsky talked extensively with Recorded Future expert threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets about this event and others in a recent interview…
Russian Hacker Nikulin Sentenced to Over 7 Years in Prison for Tech Industry Breaches
A Russian national was sentenced Tuesday afternoon for breaching several technology firms, capping a drawn-out legal battle that has involved competing extradition attempts, luxury sports cars, and delays due to the coronavirus outbreak…
Wire Transfer Scams Are Getting More Costly
Law enforcement officials have warned companies for years about the huge losses associated with business email compromise attacks, in which
DDoS Attacks Decline, but Big Incidents Still Resonate
Are the days of DDoS attacks over? Reports last week that the New Zealand Stock Exchange suffered a multi-day disruption
An Interview With RedBear: A Hacker Training the Next Generation of Cybercriminals
Editor’s Note: In the interest of exploring the untold stories of cybersecurity, The Record is publishing a recent interview between
Chart of the Week: Ransomware Attacks on Schools
As students across the country return to class — whether in-person or remote — cybersecurity practitioners are bracing for the
Chart of the Week: Healthcare Breaches
Healthcare providers can’t catch a break. The number of individuals affected by healthcare data breaches has increased steadily over the
Cybercriminals Appear to Back off From Coronavirus Scams
As the coronavirus outbreak brought the U.S. and many other countries to a standstill earlier this year, cybercriminals circulated COVID-19