Crime

Grandpa-conning crook jailed over sugar-coated drug scam

Callous fraudster tricked elderly gents into smuggling meth hidden in chocolate truffles

Offbeat23 May 2025 | 13

Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo

Legal19 May 2025 | 8

VC behemoth Insight Partners fears top-secret financial info swiped by cyber-miscreants

Weapons-grade fuel for fraud

Cyber-crime09 May 2025 | 8

Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands

Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates

Legal02 May 2025 | 7

Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus

Florida man altered allergen info, DoSed former colleagues

Cyber-crime29 Apr 2025 | 15

Cybersecurity CEO accused of running malware on hospital PC blabs about it on LinkedIn

Updated Sometimes, silence is the best option

CSO28 Apr 2025 | 10

Guess what happens when ransomware fiends find 'insurance' 'policy' in your files

It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in

Spotlight on RSAC16 Apr 2025 | 20

Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain

Cyber-crime15 Apr 2025 | 16

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63

Eight charged with corruption, money laundering, in case linked to Huawei lobbying

Chinese tech giant has fired two staff, but Europe's anti-fraud org isn't probing

Networks08 Apr 2025 | 6

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too

Security03 Apr 2025 | 148

Mobsters now overlap with cybercrime gangs and use AI for evil, Europol warns

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more!

Security24 Mar 2025 | 7

AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud

Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data

Cyber-crime21 Mar 2025 | 9

Ransomware thugs threaten Tata Technologies with leak if demands not met

Hunters International ready to off-shore 1.4 TB of info allegedly swiped from Indian giant

Ransomware in Focus05 Mar 2025 | 4

US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Phishing suspects used fishing gear as alibi; Apple's 'Find My' can track PCs and Androids; and more

Security03 Mar 2025 | 99

Bybit declares war on North Korea's Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet

Up to $140M in bounty rewards for return of Ethereum allegedly pilfered by hermit nation

Cyber-crime26 Feb 2025 | 14

Indian authorities seize loot from collapsed BitConnect crypto scam

Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world

Cyber-crime18 Feb 2025 | 13

Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam

Plus: Man who tossed Bitcoin drive worth millions barred from digging in dump

Offbeat13 Jan 2025 | 32

Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash

Old deadline of January 2025 being used to push victims into paying up

Networks10 Jan 2025 | 37

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

McDonald's worker called it in, cops swooped, found 'gun, suppressor, manifesto'

Security10 Dec 2024 | 131

Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix

Updated They took the red pill

Cyber-crime04 Dec 2024 | 44

Russia gives life sentence to Hydra dark web kingpin after seizing a ton of drugs

No exaggeration – literally a ton. Plus, 15 co-conspirators also put behind bars

Cyber-crime03 Dec 2024 | 27

Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

Infosec in brief PLUS: Cost of Halliburton hack disclosed; Time to dump old D-Link NAS; More UN cybercrime convention concerns; and more

Security18 Nov 2024 | 18

Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M

Digital money laundering pays, until it doesn't

Cyber-crime16 Nov 2024 | 7

Scumbag puts 'stolen' Nokia source code, SSH and RSA keys, more up for sale

Data pinched from pwned outside supplier, thief claims

Cyber-crime06 Nov 2024 | 6

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 | 53

California cops cuff suspect in deadly drone-assisted drug deal

‘Crany’ also captured with three 'ghost guns'

Offbeat19 Oct 2024 | 35

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