The article recounts how hacker Kai Logan West, known as IntelBroker, abandoned his Monero‑only policy for a $250 Bitcoin payment, allowing FBI investigators to trace the transaction through KYC‑linked services and ultimately expose his identity, leading to his arrest.
The FBI and CISA have issued an urgent alert that Russian-linked threat actors are conducting large‑scale phishing campaigns against WhatsApp and Signal users, using social‑engineering tricks such as fake support messages, code‑request scams, and malicious links to hijack accounts and monitor communications.
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice jointly seized two domains linked to the Iran‑aligned Handala hacker group, which had recently launched a destructive wiper attack on medical‑device giant Stryker using compromised Intune privileges, prompting expert debate on cyber‑law enforcement and medical‑industry security risks.
Microsoft’s BitLocker and Windows 11 device encryption store recovery keys in users’ Microsoft accounts, which can be accessed by law‑enforcement agencies like the FBI, prompting security experts to weigh the convenience against privacy risks and advise on safer key‑management practices.
Microsoft’s BitLocker and Windows 11 device encryption store recovery keys in the cloud, which can be accessed by law‑enforcement agencies, prompting security experts to weigh the convenience against privacy risks and advise users on safer key‑management practices.
This article explains how Alibaba's CCO team built a scalable, real‑time experience‑insight platform using Hologres and FBI, detailing the evolution from pre‑aggregated cubes to lightweight summary tables and finally to ad‑hoc detail‑wide queries, along with practical schema, partition, and deduplication techniques.
