Attention #Students! We are now accepting applications from #graduate & #undergraduate students in #CriminalJustice, #ComputerScience, #Geography, #DataScience, and #CIS You must attend GSU and have a strong interest in #cybersecurity! Send resumes to EBCS Assoc Dir Simon Botton!

This week's #StaffSpotlight is Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group #SocialScience Faculty Partner Dr.Marie Ouellet! Interested in learning more about the amazing students and staff that make up our team? Click here! t.gsu.edu/3Ufp3yg?utm_so…

Lauren Tremblay and I conducted a threat assessment of #ransomware sold across 50 #darknet markets and argue product availability has increased attack frequency. Check out our findings in AT&T Cybersecurity. USF Criminology Dept. USF CBCS USF Sarasota-Manatee University of South Florida @attcyber #cybersecurity

#CrimeAlert! User “_VOID_” is advertising a remote access control/web shell tool called #HackLink. It seems like this tool allows users to create panels that can create URLs that give remote access. This info was sourced by our #Darknet team. Thank you to Ali Eftekhary!

Georgia State University Students will be on #Springbreak next week! Here is a great #bookreccomendation from our team to get you through the break! This week, we definitely recommend P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's "LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media"!

Congratulations to Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group partner Dr. Eden Kamar! Eden has completed her Ph.D. program and has been awarded her #doctoratedegree in #cybersecurity from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem! Congratulations Eden! We are so proud of you!

Georgia State University #Panthers! We are halfway through #SpringBreak! While we miss our students and staff dearly, we hope you are making the most of your time off! Here's to a safe and relaxing #SpringBreak, and we will see you all back next week!

Last week, EBCS Director david maimon was featured in The New York Times for our research on #MailFraud and #CheckWashing. Our Teams continue monitoring these channels and will update you as the story develops. You can read the full article here - t.gsu.edu/3Ju1VbI

#WelcomeBack! Georgia State University #Panthers! We missed you over #SpringBreak, here’s to a strong finish to the semester, you’re almost at the end!

Our team monitoring #MailFraud forums on the #DarkWeb were able to pull this video posted earlier this month. Here you can see a #Fraudster using a stolen #MailKey to break into mailboxes and steal mail.

#CrimeAlert! Students focusing on #ThreatIntellegence have been tracking the #LockBit #Ransomware gang, which was recently involved in a #Dataleak involving SpaceX parts company Maximum Industries Inc. #Lockbit claims to have stolen 3,000 proprietary blueprints!

Sharing more photos from last week's #Telegram Training event hosted by researchers and Ph.D. Students Shelleen Akin and Cameron Hoffman. Our team is dedicated to providing the most accurate and up-to-date information on #cybercrime. That means hosting #trainingevents often!

Episode 71 is here! In this episode, we speak with Professor C. Jordan Howell (C. Jordan Howell; @sarasotacyber) about: - Cybercrime/cybersecurity - Ransomware - Darknet markets, and - The illicit supply chain! Check it out today: thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-71-how…

Two criminologists automated chatbots posing as 13-year-old girls to gather detailed, current data on how predators are targeting children. Here are their disturbing findings (by Eden Kamar and C. Jordan Howell of University of South Florida) bit.ly/44zBV8D

👉 Two members of the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group team (@FZWang712 and @VolkanTopalli) were interviewed by WIRED Business about a potentially new form of #RomanceFraud: #catfishing @wired Andrew Young School Laura Cole “This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale” wired.com/story/catfishi…

Some legitimate text message apps are home to underground markets where illicit items are sold. Consumer Investigator Caresse J spoke with the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group , which tracks the activities of these illicit markets, on why you should steer clear of them. youtu.be/sqfpRsSkJ0A

Our research, first covered by @ghlionn in the New York Post, is receiving global attention with news reports in English, French, and Hebrew. Check out the latest Israeli news report. Eden Kamar David Maimon Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group USF CBCS USF Research ynet.co.il/digital/techne…

👉 Happening right now. Professor Mikko Siponen speaking on #RomanceScams and #RomanceFraud. #CyberFraud #CyberCrime #CyberSecurity Andrew Young School Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group Robinson College GSU Culverhouse College of Business

The countdown to the start of the Fall2023 semester has begun! GSU students will return to campus in less than a month. #ATL has missed our #Panthers! Please check over your intended course list and keep your eyes peeled for classes taught by EBCS Partners! #WelcomeHomePanthers!

For my part, I’ve been working with the great-but-gone-but-probably-snooping-around Andy Wheeler on an Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group grant from CINA at Mason🛡. He developed a program to anonymize data; we’re currently writing a short tutorial for criminologists. It can be used for data like that on