Alessio Stefan - September 8th, 2025
The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been very common...
Alessio Stefan - March 18th, 2025
Politics, information technology, and privacy. A triad continually seeking balance with a history of conflict that originates from the introduction of personal computers at the consumer level. Attempts by the...
Alessio Stefan - January 8th, 2025
This is the last episode of “The Story Of Conti Ransomware” series, we would finally reach the decline of the group and what this means for the current ransomware landscape....
Alessio Stefan - December 22nd, 2024
In the last month of 2024, LockBit has been exodusively talked about. The prominent news is the long-awaited release of the 4.0 program of the most famous RaaS in the...
Alessio Stefan - November 22nd, 2024
This is a continuation of the Conti story. You can read the previous part, which covered the group's origins, in the previous article. We will now explore the internal components...
Alessio Stefan - November 4th, 2024
This is the story of Herm1t, founder of VX-Heaven, hacker - currently active in protecting Ukraine from 2014 - and founder of RUH8 in fall 2015, told by means of...
Alessio Stefan - September 30th, 2024
Ransomware, a malware designed to encrypt data making them restorable only with the use of a private key. Relatively simple math is all that threat actors out there needs to...
Alessio Stefan - August 11th, 2024
After the European elections unfolded, geopolitical attentions shifted to the U.S. election campaign, one of the most dynamic in recent years recently with the Democrats' recent changeover with Harris as...
Alessio Stefan - August 4th, 2024
The Pro-Palestinian group BlackMeta (or DarkMeta) announced on August 1, 2024, on their official telegram channel that they conducted a destructive attack on the NSO group's infrastructure, including the central...
Alessio Stefan - July 16th, 2024
Imagine a time before firewalls and ubiquitous encryption, when the digital frontier was wide open for exploration. Hackers weren't criminals, they were pioneers, fueled by an insatiable thirst for knowledge. ...