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Cyber Extortion Expert Charged With Cyber Extortion Amid FBI Website Hack Manhunt
He published a book on handling cyber extortion last month.
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Edward Dubrovsky has spent years telling companies how to handle criminals who steal their data and demand payment. Federal prosecutors now accuse the 54-year-old Canadian ransomware negotiator of conspiring to commit cyber extortion himself, and anonymous sources say his case is connected to ShinyHunters, the crew that defaced the FBI’s jobs site last month and demanded the bureau retract a May warning about the hacking group.
According to the federal docket in Philadelphia, which misspells his last name as “Dobrovsky,”…
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