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While ransomware is arguably the greatest current security threat to organizations, its rise has distracted us from the true issue at hand: extortion-based crimes. By Jeff Palatt, Vice President, Technical Advisory Services at MOXFIVE Encrypted files, corrupted applications, deleted backups, and stolen data – all are debilitating symptoms attributed to ransomware. With the shift to digital currencies, the monetization from attacks has only become easier for threat actors to turn unauthorized access to an organization’s…

Have you ever been online and replied to a comment or post? Maybe it was on Reddit or on an influencer’s Instagram. Did other people reply to you, and were any of them unexpectedly hostile? When you’re online, a little hostility is sadly par for the course, but most people brush it off and move on to enjoy other aspects of life online. But what would you do if that unpleasant interaction went much farther…

Have you ever been online and replied to a comment or post? Maybe it was on Reddit or on an influencer’s Instagram. Did other people reply to you, and were any of them unexpectedly hostile? When you’re online, a little hostility is sadly par for the course, but most people brush it off and move on to enjoy other aspects of life online. But what would you do if that unpleasant interaction went much farther…

A man from Florida will not be serving time in prison for his role in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme involving the sale of patients’ personal and medical data. Boca Raton resident, Nathan LaParl, aged 35, and his 30-year-old accomplice Talia Alexandre, of Palm Springs, worked with foreign call centers to contact Medicare patients and ask if they were interested in purchasing durable medical equipment (DME) such as arm and shoulder braces “at little…

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down on the criminal misuse of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. In a statement released Thursday, the DOJ announced the appointment of prosecutor and former senior counsel to the deputy attorney general, Eun Young Choi, as the first director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). Comprising department attorneys, including prosecutors with backgrounds in cryptocurrency, cybercrime, money laundering and forfeiture, the NCET’s mission is to identify, investigate, support and…