Crime

Six IT contractors accused of swindling Uncle Sam out of millions

Infosec in brief Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more

Security03 Nov 2024 | 11

The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium

Have you seen this dome? It's full of stars

Science02 Nov 2024 | 68

Tower PC case allegedly used as 'creative cavity' by drug importer

Motherboard missing, leaving space for a million hits of meth

Cyber-crime31 Oct 2024 | 58

California cops cuff suspect in deadly drone-assisted drug deal

‘Crany’ also captured with three 'ghost guns'

Offbeat19 Oct 2024 | 36

Datacenter CEO faked top-tier IT reliability cert to snag $10.7M SEC deal, DoJ claims

Updated The Uptime Institute rates availability. The 'Uptime Council' … apparently doesn't exist

Off-Prem17 Oct 2024 | 21

Short sellers rejoice on report of Supermicro DoJ probe

Comment Alleged inquiry comes amid claims server maker cooked its books

Systems26 Sep 2024 |

If your AI does the crime, you'll do the time, warns DoJ

Add compliance requirements to your AI to-do list

AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 31

SBF's right-hand woman praised for testimony – and jailed for two years

Caroline Ellison thanked for helping take down FTX supremo, ordered to surrender her own billions

Legal25 Sep 2024 | 32

Ex Samsung execs reportedly arrested for alleged IP theft in China chip caper

Duo accused of stealing $3.2B of 20nm tech and secrets

Legal10 Sep 2024 |

Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns

DoJ, ATF target MCDs, but what about the printers?

Legal09 Sep 2024 | 152

Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes

Unclear if this is a sign controversial service is cleaning up its act everywhere

Public Sector04 Sep 2024 | 10

Check your IP cameras: There's a new Mirai botnet on the rise

Infosec in brief Also, US offering $2.5M for Belarusian hacker, Backpage kingpins jailed, additional MOVEit victims, and more

Security31 Aug 2024 | 22

France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes

Testing the idea that a platform boss can be responsible for the acts of others, or not helping to investigate them

Legal30 Aug 2024 | 128

French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country

Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network

Networks29 Jul 2024 | 60

Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it's not enough

Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore

Public Sector23 Jul 2024 | 3

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

Stop us if you think you've heard this one before: Legal supergroup demands billions from Verizon

Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 86

US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts

Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them

Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 13

Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices

Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons

Security26 Jun 2024 | 24

Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough up $4.5B, liquidate self

South Korean outfit that triggered the world's 'Crypto Winter' will melt away after SEC order

Personal Tech17 Jun 2024 | 17

Nigerian faces up to 102 years in the slammer for $1.5M phishing scam

Crook and his alleged co-conspirators said to have used Discord to coordinate

Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 9

Best Buy and Geek Squad were most impersonated orgs by scammers in 2023

But criminals posing as Microsoft workers scored the most ill-gotten gains

Security24 May 2024 | 13

Laundering cash from healthcare, romance scams lands US man in prison for a decade

$4.5M slushed through accounts from state healthcare and lonely people

Security22 May 2024 | 2

Alleged $100M dark-web drug kingpin, 23, arrested

DoJ claims he used platform's last days to extort its users

Legal21 May 2024 | 31

Ex-CEO of 'unicorn' app startup HeadSpin heads to jail after BS'ing investors

Lachwani faked it but didn't make it

Applications22 Apr 2024 | 7

Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash

Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack

Software18 Apr 2024 | 20

Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer's cipher thank the crowd

Fifty-one years of community contributions, software, and clever cryptanalysis contributed

Bootnotes04 Apr 2024 | 38

Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors

CTO shared code from his laptop with investigation after FTX collapsed

Software03 Apr 2024 | 22

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll

Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 26

Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly

On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13

Feds post $15 million bounty for info on ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware crew

infosec in brief ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns

Security19 Feb 2024 |

It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down

Column Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger

Software14 Feb 2024 | 77

Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam

$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds

Cyber-crime14 Feb 2024 | 3

Fintech engineer grounded by crypto fraud caper, including $300m spoof trades

Fourth conviction in South Africa-linked scheme

Legal08 Feb 2024 | 9

Combination of cheap .cloud domains and fake Shark Tank news fuel unhealthy wellness scams

.SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife

Security17 Jan 2024 | 5

China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia

‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more

Cyber-crime16 Jan 2024 | 5

23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms

Security in brief Also: 'well-known Bay Area tech' firm's laptops stolen and check out some critical vulns

Security11 Dec 2023 | 15

That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins

Security08 Dec 2023 | 29

Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt

Updated Chief quits, pays own penalty after helping crooks launder cash, aiding sanctions evaders

Cyber-crime22 Nov 2023 | 37

FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges

Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts

Cyber-crime03 Nov 2023 | 112

Food robots delivering bombs? Oregon State campus shut down by 'prank'

Student's new dorm room comes with bars, not the good kind

Offbeat25 Oct 2023 | 29

San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests

Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 30

Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint

38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers

Legal13 Oct 2023 | 21

Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software

PhilHealth blames government procurement rules for license expiry and issues phishing warnings

Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 15

Hong Kong securities regulator to name suspicious crypto players

Tightens regulations after downfall of the brazen JPEX exchange

Legal27 Sep 2023 | 6

Blazar Token creator accused of using investor funds for renovating bathroom

Interesting choice, if true. Not a Lamborghini, is it?

Legal24 Aug 2023 | 10

Token prison sentence for first convicted NFT insider trader

Prosecutors wanted 2 years, but former OpenSea employee got 3 months

Legal23 Aug 2023 | 9

Celsius feels the heat: Ex-CEO arrested, watchdogs line up to sue bankrupt crypto biz

Exec faces fraud charges, one regulator wants $5 billion fine

Cyber-crime13 Jul 2023 | 10

California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull

Fraudulent cash cow milked investors for almost $9M

Offbeat28 Jun 2023 | 36

SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation

Exclusive Four disks believed stolen from Walldorf facility, at least one containing company data

Storage21 Jun 2023 | 49

Montenegro jails Do Kwon, accused of causing $40 billion LUNA crash

Crypto villain's passports were as fake as his stablecoin

Legal20 Jun 2023 | 11

Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition

Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse

Legal16 Jun 2023 | 15

Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear

Military, schools, and hospitals burned by off-brand Cisco inferno

Networks07 Jun 2023 | 36

Cry-pto: Feds bury Bitcoin exchange giant Binance in 13-count fraud lawsuit

'We are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro'

Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 25

Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill

'Liz' learns you don't screw over rich people

Science17 May 2023 | 72

IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack

Patient data 'was and is never endangered', says medical tech slinger

Cyber-crime01 May 2023 | 6

South Korea prosecutes Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin

Alleges large scale fraud, embezzling, and maybe even bribery, before crypto collapse

Legal26 Apr 2023 | 5