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How a young Argentine hacker became a cyber espionage pioneer

23 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  Leonardo Cositorto, a young hacker from Argentina, has pioneered cyber espionage. Born in 1995, Cositorto grew up in a working-class family in Buenos Aires. He discovered his passion for hacking at a young age, and by the time he was a teenager, he...

How to Track Stolen Crypto Funds

11 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melusine

Techniques used to track crypto criminals Even the staunchest proponent of the lack of centralized authority to oversee financial transactions would like to be able to recuperate stolen funds when their or their friends and family’s wallets or s...

Progress in tracking crypto criminals

10 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Melusine

  The lack of regulation and difficulty in tracing transactions have made it challenging for law enforcement to effectively investigate and prosecute cryptocurrency-related crimes. Yet, according to Andy Greenberg recent book “Tracers in the Dark: T...

Ukraine Counteroffensive Success Will Spur More Cyberattacks From Russia

14 Sep 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

As Ukraine makes significant gains over Russia as part of their counteroffensive, we must expect Putin to respond to the embarrassment in many petty ways, including leveraging cyberattacks against countries that have been supplying and supporting Uk...

Lloyd’s New Cyber Insurance Exclusions Aim to Avoid Payouts from Nation State Hacks

23 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

The recent announcement by the insurance giant Lloyds of London, may be the biggest cybersecurity news of the year. It might not seem all that relevant, but strategically, this will likely shift the entire industry and politics of cybersecurity. In...

Arguments Against Criminalizing Ransomware Payments

11 Aug 2021 1 minute read 9 comments Matthew Rosenquist

The goal is to effectively end ransomware as a significant cybersecurity risk for everyone. In exploring the different strategic options, one path has emerged superior, in which the flow of money to the ransomware attackers is essentially stopped. T...

Demotivating Ransomware Attackers by Ending Ransom Payments

5 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Outlawing payments will result in the abandonment of ransomware attacks. By stopping the flow of money, we can demotivate cybercriminals who will shift to other activities that are more profitable than ransomware. We don’t need to stop all types of...

2 Biggest Factors Driving the Future of Cybersecurity

7 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Cybersecurity can appear random and chaotic, but there are basic fundamentals that drive the course of cyberattacks.  In today’s video, I dive into the two biggest factors that shape cybersecurity risks, attacks, and what drives the direction of the...

The Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Might be Good for America

17 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, that caused fear of fuel shortages on the US East Coast, might be exactly what the nation needed to improve Critical Infrastructure security! In this week’s video, I discuss why the attack was a much-needed w...

Be Careful of Unmasking & Dusting Attacks

18 Apr 2021 3 minute read 1 comment Suny Ag

Today a bitcoin is worth $60K and even the smallest part of it, the Satoshi, is considered valuable. If you combined the price of some Satoshi, that also becomes large enough. The same goes for Ehereum which is even more vulnerable to such attacks. ...