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    The Fall of an Empire: Empire Market Closes
    On August 22, 2020, Empire Market shuttered their illicit operations. Previous notable marketplace takedowns like ...
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    COURT DOC: First Of Four Members Of ‘Atomwaffen’ Neo-Nazi Group Sentenced To 16 Months In Prison For Plot To Intimidate Journalists And Advocates
    A 21-year-old Arizona man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 16 months in prison for his ...
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    COURT DOC: Local Man Charged With Making Threat During University Zoom Lecture
    A 19-year-old U.S. citizen residing in Richmond is set to appear in federal court on allegations he made a bomb ...
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    COURT DOC: Two Alleged Hackers Charged With Defacing Websites Following Killing of Qasem Soleimani
    Two alleged computer hackers were indicted in the District of Massachusetts on charges of damaging multiple ...
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    COURT DOC: United States Files Complaint to Forfeit 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Tied to Hacks of Two Exchanges by North Korean Actors
    The Justice Department today filed a civil forfeiture complaint detailing two hacks of virtual currency exchanges ...
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    COURT DOC: Russian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Introduce Malware into a U.S. Company’s Computer Network
    DoJ announced that A Russian national pleaded guilty in federal court for conspiring to travel to the United ...
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    Profile and Exclusive Interview with Iraqi Shiite Insurgents Ashab al-Kahf
    Over the past few months, local contractors providing supplies to U.S. military bases and outposts in Iraq have ...
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    Preventing and Combating Online Recruitment Fraud
    Last week, I was asked again about an online recruitment fraud scheme. Threat actors are reaching out to job ...
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    COURT DOC: Seven International Cyber Defendants, Including “Apt41” Actors, Charged In Connection With Computer Intrusion Campaigns Against More Than 100 Victims Globally
    In August 2019 and August 2020, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned two separate indictments ...
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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    The Beirut Port Explosion: Analysis of Potential Causes
    In the hours and days following the massive August 4th explosion at the port in central Beirut that caused over ...
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    Flashpoint Hunt Team Insights into Zeppelin Ransomware
    In less than a decade, ransomware has grown from a relatively unknown attack technique to a national security ...
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    Election Security Challenges and The Role of Disinformation
    Flashpoint analysts have been tracking various disinformation campaigns and monitoring tools that can be used to ...
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