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How to Raise the Risk for Criminals on the Darknet

Just as criminals conduct business in the dark allies of cities, they also trade in illicit products such as drugs, guns, and counterfeit documents [...] More

Trust Between Criminals is the Darknet’s Real Currency

On July 20, 2017, U.S. and European law enforcement authorities announced they had jointly taken down two major darknet marketplace sites: AlphaBay [...] More
Policing the Dark Alleys of the Internet: The Takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa

Policing the Dark Alleys of the Internet: The Takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa

On July 5, Thai police arrested a man in Bangkok named Alexandre Cazes, a 26-year-old Canadian, for running an expansive online criminal bazaar [...] More

Worrying Trends in Cybercrime

With cybercrime expected to reach costs nearing $2 trillion by 2019, firms are urgently seeking ways to better defend their networks from the harmful [...] More
Forewarned is Forearmed: Confronting Adversaries in Cyberspace

Forewarned is Forearmed: Confronting Adversaries in Cyberspace

The risk of attack or theft from cyber-enabled actors has been made extremely clear to both private businesses and governments. The last few years [...] More

It's All About the Money

As more and more business is conducted online and cyber criminals target in on a very lucrative market, both the public and private sector face [...] More

Exponential Growth

Whether it’s your phone, your computer, TV, or even a refrigerator, all those connected devices that we depend on in our daily lives have become [...] More
Malicious Cyber-Actors in the Financial Services Industry

Malicious Cyber-Actors in the Financial Services Industry

Observers around the world were shocked when news broke about a major bank heist in Bangladesh. This was no ordinary robbery though – this time, the [...] More

Unprecedented Opportunities and Vulnerabilities

Cyber threats pose a challenge to banks and firms operating in the financial sector, primarily due to the fact that “vulnerability really exists [...] More
Healthcare and the Cyber Threat

Healthcare and the Cyber Threat

In February, Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital very publicly paid $17,000 to regain access to its files after being infected with a type of malware [...] More

Low-Hanging Fruit

Healthcare providers represent an attractive target for hackers due to the wealth of information they store about their patients. The Cipher Brief [...] More

A Prime Target

On February 5th, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center lost access to its computers after being infected with ransomware – a type of malware that [...] More