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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. In November 2021, the State Department began offering up to to $10 million for the name or location of any key leaders of REvil, a major Russian ransomware gang. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a.

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Spotlight Podcast: RADICL Is Coming To The Rescue Of Defense SMBs

The Security Ledger

and other militaries have always been at the top of the target list for so-called “advanced persistent threat” cyber adversaries. Air Force personnel way back in 2005 as a way to talk about the kinds of enduring cyber attacks and attempts at data exfiltration they were observing. ” And its a big problem.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

Contrasting that is, perhaps, a more nuanced statement from Howard Schmidt, President Obama’s first cybersecurity czar, who said “We see people talking about the digital Pearl Harbor from the worms and Trojans and viruses. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups. It’s really a cute story.