Hydra, a bazaar that traded in drugs, fake documents, and cryptocurrency laundering over the Tor network, was taken down. US authorities arrested Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian residing in China, nine months later after hunting the cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato which laundered $4.58 billion worth of cryptocurrency transactions. Mikhail Matveyev, a suspect from ransomware groups, was also arrested by Russian authorities.
Ongoing Phishing and Malware Campaigns in December 2024
Cyber attackers continue to invent new ways to compromise targets, with emerging threats including a zero-day attack which evades most detection software using corrupted Word