"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."

(and of course that network also now includes the #Trump administration, because Howard Lutnick is/was Tether's money manager)

* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD

#moneylaundering #crime#corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #iran #russia #uspol#howardLutnick #economist #economics #finance #uk #ukpol #garantex #threatintel #ransomware #cybersecurity #vladimirputin #oligarchs #putin #ukraine #kinahans #kinahan

Cybercrime: Lösegeldverhandler zwackte sich wohl Provisionen ab

Ein für das Aushandeln von Lösegeld bei aussichtslosen Ransomware-Vorfällen angestellter Experte hat sich wohl Provisionen zahlen lassen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Cybercrime-Loesegeldverhandler-zwackte-sich-wohl-Provisionen-ab-10474413.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Cybercrime#IT#Ransomware#Security #news

Espionage 🤝 Cybercrime :: TA829 🤝 UNK_GreenSec

Our extensive visibility into the threat landscape has led us to conclude that there is very likely a link between TA829 (a cybercriminal actor also conducting #espionage in line with Russian state interests) & UNK_GreenSec (a #cybercriminal cluster observed deploying #malware and #ransomware).

See our research blog for a technical analysis of the intriguing overlap between the threat actor clusters. https://brnw.ch/21wTN3n