Feds freeze $30m in cryptocurrency stolen from Axie Infinity
But the North Korean criminals are still over half a billion digicash dollars up
Security09 Sep 2022 | 15
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US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware
FBI warns that Vice Society threat group is ramping up attacks on the education sector
Cyber-crime07 Sep 2022 | 8
FBI: Look out, crooks stole $1.3b in cryptocurrency in just three months this year
DeFi, as in, defying belief
Cyber-crime01 Sep 2022 | 9
Don't dive head first into that crypto pool, FBI warns
Liquidity scams cost victims more than $70m, agents say
Cyber-crime22 Jul 2022 | 18
DoJ, FBI recover $500,000 in ransomware payments to Maui gang
Money paid by healthcare facilities to North Korean group traced through blockchain and Chinese launderers
Security20 Jul 2022 | 2
Bogus cryptocurrency apps steal millions in mere months
As if the crypto world needs any help in making money vanish
Cyber-crime18 Jul 2022 | 22
FBI warning: Crooks are using deepfake videos in interviews for remote gigs
Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database?
Cyber-crime29 Jun 2022 | 23
LGBTQ+ folks warned of dating app extortion scams
Uncle Sam tells of crooks exploiting Pride Month
Cyber-crime27 Jun 2022 | 6
Former chip research professor jailed for not disclosing Chinese patents
This is how Beijing illegally accesses US tech, say Feds
Legal17 Jun 2022 | 16
Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits
Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds
Security14 Jun 2022 | 3
Five Eyes alliance’s top cop says techies are the future of law enforcement
Crims have weaponized tech and certain States let them launder the proceeds
Cyber-crime09 Jun 2022 | 15
Beijing-backed baddies target unpatched networking kit to attack telcos
NSA, FBI and CISA issue joint advisory that suggests China hardly has to work for this – flaws revealed in 2017 are among their entry points
Security08 Jun 2022 | 3
FBI, CISA: Don't get caught in Karakurt's extortion web
Is this gang some sort of Conti side hustle? The answer may be yes
CSO03 Jun 2022 | 7
Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns
Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars
Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3
How these crooks backdoor online shops and siphon victims' credit card info
FBI and co blow lid off latest PHP tampering scam
Cyber-crime18 May 2022 | 6
FBI warns of North Korean cyberspies posing as foreign IT workers
Looking for tech talent? Kim Jong-un's friendly freelancers, at your service
CSO17 May 2022 | 10
Venezuelan cardiologist charged with 'designing and selling ransomware'
If his surgery was as bad as his opsec, this chap has caused a lot of trouble, allegedly
Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 11
US offers $15m reward for information about Conti ransomware gang
The State Department notice comes in wake of the cybercrims’ attack on Costa Rican government
Security09 May 2022 | 1
FBI: Cyber-scams cost victims $6.9b-plus worldwide in 2021
Another banner year for criminals. For everyone else, not so much
Cyber-crime05 May 2022 | 8
Cybercriminals do their homework for latest banking scam
What could be safer than sending money to yourself through your own bank?
Cyber-crime15 Apr 2022 | 31
Cybercriminals made $7bn in pure profit in 2021, says FBI
Another year, another batch of record-setting cybercrime losses
Security23 Mar 2022 | 3
AvosLocker group is targeting US critical infrastructure, FBI says
Ransomware affiliates threaten to publish stolen data or launch DDoS attacks if victims don’t pay
Security21 Mar 2022 |
Ragnar ransomware gang hit 52 critical US orgs, says FBI
Energy biz, financial services, governments, and IT outfits targeted
Security09 Mar 2022 | 8
US to attack cyber criminals first, ask questions later – if it protects victims
DoJ also creates two teams to prevent abuse of cryptocurrency – who knew that happens?
Security21 Feb 2022 | 23
FBI seizes $3.6bn in Bitcoin after New York 'tech couple' arrested over Bitfinex robbery
Updated Ilya Lichtenstein and partner cuffed via blockchain records
Security08 Feb 2022 | 45
FBI says more cyber attacks come from China than everywhere else combined
Currently investigating over 2,000 attacks on US targets – new file every 12 hours
Security03 Feb 2022 | 49
UK National Crime Agency finds 225 million previously unexposed passwords
Shares them with Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned after sweeping them up from ‘compromised cloud storage’
Security21 Dec 2021 | 54
Oz Feds reveal distribution model behind backdoored 'An0m' chat app spread by crims
Resellers were given exclusive territories to target, and offered tech support
Security09 Dec 2021 | 7
Canadian charged with running ransomware attack on US state of Alaska
Cross-border op nabbed our man, boast cops and prosecutors
Security08 Dec 2021 | 11
FBI spams thousands with fake infosec advice after 'software misconfiguration'
Looks like feuding hackers wanted to expose Feds' failings as a public service. We want to believe
Security15 Nov 2021 | 9
Ransomware-skewered meat producer JBS confesses to paying $11m for its freedom
Company also says large and well-funded IT department sorted recovery swiftly
Security10 Jun 2021 | 20
Would-be AWS bomber pleads guilty, faces 5 to 20 years behind bars for plot to take out government servers
FBI reveals undercover employee sold him fake explosives before arrest
PaaS + IaaS10 Jun 2021 | 10
FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld
From hidden master keys to pineapples stuffed with Bolivian marching powder — this story has it all
Security08 Jun 2021 | 134
Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots
Hundreds of arrests already in Oz, details of European and US ops to be revealed soon
Security08 Jun 2021 | 97
Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge
Comment Would move for The Greater Good™ actually be good, though?
Security19 Apr 2021 | 51
Report: Aussie biz Azimuth cracked San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, ending Apple-FBI privacy standoff
Mozilla-authored code in iOS exploited, since patched, it is claimed
Security14 Apr 2021 | 26
FBI deletes web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers before alerting admins
Remote-control malware wiped, deployments must still be patched
Security14 Apr 2021 | 74
Now it is F5’s turn to reveal critical security bugs – and the Feds were quick to sound the alarm on these BIG-IP flaws
Remote code execution, denial of service, API abuse possible. Meanwhile, FBI pegs China for Exchange hacks
Security11 Mar 2021 | 11
Police chopper chasing a crim near an airport? Ideal time to use my laser pointer, says Texas idiot now behind bars
Man jailed for 51 months after pilot temporarily blinded by the light
Science10 Nov 2020 | 54
Criticalstudies.org sounds pretty important, right? Wrong: USA says it’s an Iranian fake news front
So it's been seized, along with a bunch of other sites, with Cloudflare accounts providing critical evidence
Security05 Nov 2020 | 22
Is it Iran or Russia's hackers we need to worry about? The Russians, definitely the Russians, says US intelligence
Energetic Bear team caught breaking into govt systems, no harm done to Nov 3 elections
Security22 Oct 2020 | 50
The seven deadly sins letting hackers hijack America's govt networks: These unpatched bugs leave systems open
'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised'
Security12 Oct 2020 | 7
FBI boasts of dark-web drug bust: 179 collared around the world, $6.5m in cash and 500kg of narcotics seized
Operation DisrupTor will 'significantly disrupt the online opioid trade'
Security23 Sep 2020 | 20
Forget your space-age IT security systems. It might just take a $1m bribe and a willing employee to be pwned
Updated Elon Musk suggests Tesla targeted by Russian charged with trying to bung staffer cash to infect own bosses' network during DDoS distraction
Security26 Aug 2020 | 51
Feds seize 'largest ever' haul of crypto-dosh from terrorists – including coins from 'fake' pandemic mask web store
In brief Plus: Someone's gunning for Mac developers
OSes17 Aug 2020 | 10
This NSA, FBI security advisory has four words you never want to see together: Fancy Bear Linux rootkit
From Russia, with love
Security13 Aug 2020 | 67
Visa fraud charges: Uncle Sam accuses four Chinese eggheads of covering up their true ties to China's military
Three collared, one in hiding at San Francisco consulate
Science24 Jul 2020 | 22
Hey there, want to break into computers like an Iranian hacker crew? IBM finds 40GB of videos that include how-tos
In Brief Plus: BitTorrent CEO puts a $1m bounty on Twitter hackers
OSes20 Jul 2020 | 4
Step on it, I've got the police on my hack: Anon swipes, leaks online 269GB of crime intel docs from cops, Feds
'BlueLeaks' data lifted after web host biz pwned, we're told
Security22 Jun 2020 | 18
Zoom to offer proper end-to-end encryption to free vid-chat accounts – not just paid-up bods – once you verify your phone number...
Just in case the Feds take an interest in your calls
Security17 Jun 2020 | 4
Facebook pays for exploit to catch a predator, voting software security under the microscope...
Roundup ... and more in this rapid-fire summary of infosec news
Security14 Jun 2020 | 5
As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence
Comment The confusion of physical and online protests merge
Personal Tech02 Jun 2020 | 61
US lawmakers get a second shot at forcing FBI agents to obtain a warrant before they leaf through web histories
Bi-partisan amendment aims to take away easy access to your online life
Security26 May 2020 | 15
Attorney General: We didn't need Apple to crack terrorist's iPhones – tho we still want iGiant to do it in future
Feds gain access to military base shooter's mobes using outside tools
Security18 May 2020 | 46
Kaspersky cleans up poisoned watering hole, Google presses pause on cookie crackdown
Roundup Plus: SystemD has a privilege escalation flaw that needs patching, and more bits and bytes
Security06 Apr 2020 | 16
For the past five years, every FBI secret spy court request to snoop on Americans has sucked, says watchdog
Analysis Feeling secure? Sucker
Security01 Apr 2020 | 21
Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news
Roundup Including: Why was #RootGoat2020 trending on Twitter? It is as silly as you think
Security10 Feb 2020 | 13
If only 3 in 100,000 cyber-crimes are prosecuted, why not train cops to bring these crooks to justice once and for all, suggests think-tank veep
Enigma 'We are focusing on defending systems over identifying and pursuing the person behind the cyber-crime'
Security30 Jan 2020 | 43
No backdoors needed: Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt iCloud backups after heavy pressure from FBI – claim
Convenient timing for this story to emerge
Security21 Jan 2020 | 51
It's Friday, the weekend has landed... and Microsoft warns of an Internet Explorer zero day exploited in the wild
Roundup Plus, WeLeakInfo? Not anymore!
Security18 Jan 2020 | 15
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