UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says Cyber-crime14 Jul 2025 | 28
British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers Cyber-crime30 Jun 2025 | 91
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more Cyber-crime16 Jun 2025 | 3
Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they? Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks Personal Tech04 Jun 2025 | 89
Feds gut host behind pig butchering scams that bilked $200M from Americans Philippines company allegedly run by Chinese national has form running scams Security30 May 2025 | 14
German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam Legal28 May 2025 | 50
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