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Instagram star gets 11 years for $300m email scam plot

Hushpuppi swaps private jet, Dubai penthouse for prison duds and $1.7m to victims

Cyber-crime10 Nov 2022 | 34

FBI: Russian hacktivists achieve only 'limited' DDoS success

OK, so you've got a botnet. That don't impress me much

Cyber-crime08 Nov 2022 | 6

Double-check demand payment emails from law firms: Convincing fakes surface

Crimson Kingsnake impersonates legit attorneys, fakes email threads from your colleagues in far-reaching BEC campaign

Research04 Nov 2022 | 15

The White House's global ransomware summit couldn't come at a better time

As cyber threats ramp up, businesses and organizations will be hoping for more than platitudes

Security31 Oct 2022 |

Alert: This ransomware preys on healthcare orgs via weak-ass VPN servers

FBI, CISA warn of Daixin gang after OakBend Medical Center hit

Cyber-crime24 Oct 2022 | 1

Google says slap some GUAC on your software supply chain

In brief Also: Iranian election hackers are back, the TSA gets regulatory on train cybersecurity, and more

Security24 Oct 2022 | 2

Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security

OK, boomer – how do I turn off cookies?

CSO19 Oct 2022 | 76

FBI: Looking for Biden's student loan forgiveness? Watch out for these scams

You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and steal identities?

Cyber-crime19 Oct 2022 | 8

Interpol busts global 'Black Axe' cyber-fraud suspects

75 collars felt, $1.2m seized in bid to cut off crime network’s financial lifeline

Cyber-crime17 Oct 2022 | 3

Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it

I think we can handle one little Russia. We sent two units, they're bringing any attempts down now

Security06 Oct 2022 | 40

Cyber-snoops broke into US military contractor, stole data, hid for months

Tell us it’s Russia without telling us it’s Russia

Security05 Oct 2022 | 14

FBI: We tracked who was printing secret documents to unmask ex-NSA suspect

Infosec systems designer alleged to have chatted with undercover agent

Security03 Oct 2022 | 53

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

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