US recovers a record $15m from the 3ve ad-fraud crew Swiss banks cough up around half of the proceeds of crime Security19 May 2022 | 11
State of internet crime in Q1 2022: Bot traffic on the rise, and more According to this cybersecurity outfit that wants your business, anyway Cyber-crime18 May 2022 | 6
China reveals its top five sources of online fraud 'Brushing' tops the list, as quantity of forbidden content continue to rise Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 15
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims Special report Lawsuit accuses Big Blue of cheating investors by shifting systems revenue to trendy cloud, mobile tech SaaS07 Apr 2022 | 84
Yale finance director stole $40m in computers to resell on the sly Ill-gotten gains bankrolled swish life of flash cars and real estate Security31 Mar 2022 | 32
Cybercrooks target students with fake job opportunities Legit employers don't normally send a check before you've started – or ask you to send money to a Bitcoin address Security29 Mar 2022 | 21
Singapore introduces potent anti-scam measures Plans to block more scam sites, share liability between banks and customers Security16 Feb 2022 | 10
Former tech CIO jailed for setting up £475k backhander scam with IT outsourcing firm One-time head of Hampshire Police IT gets six years Legal03 Feb 2022 | 21
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud: Blood-testing machines were vapourware after all Fallen Silicon Valley darling defrauded investors, says jury Legal04 Jan 2022 | 151
Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother Plus: Quad9 loses German DNS-blocking injunction pause attempt Legal17 Dec 2021 | 49
Cryptocurrency 'rug pulls' cheated investors out of $8bn in 2021 – report Somehow people keep buying into dodgy crypto projects that vanish with investor funds Personal Tech16 Dec 2021 | 54
European Cybercrime Centre confident it's kicked credit card crims – again Poised to reveal similar haul to 2020's €40M loss prevention total Security02 Dec 2021 | 4
Theranos' Holmes admits she slapped Big Pharma logos on lab reports to boost her biz 'I wish I had done it differently' she tells jury in fraud trial Science24 Nov 2021 | 52
Teen bought Google ad for his scam website and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers 'If he was an adult he would be going inside' – judge Legal27 Oct 2021 | 69
Fake 'BT' caller fleeces elderly victim of £30k in APP app scam That's authorised push payment – where they get the mark to make the transfer Security27 Sep 2021 | 75
Brits open doors for tech-enabled fraudsters because they 'don't want to seem rude' Impersonation scams and smishing rocket, say UK Finance and Which? Security14 Sep 2021 | 24
Former Cisco exec jailed for fraud, dodging taxes Lean in for a tale of shell companies, fake CEOs, bribes, prison time and $3.6m in fines Legal31 Aug 2021 | 14
'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud Applications26 Aug 2021 | 18
What's this about a lawyer looking for an heir? City of London Police seek IT crew to help crack down on fraud Contract worth £75m over seven years Security05 Jul 2021 | 6
IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison Self-signed invoices let him cream off hundreds of thousands Legal02 Jul 2021 | 42
Financial watchdog says Google's clampdown on scam ads might not be enough to prevent stricter laws in Britain That's tough talk – especially after the amazing reversal on £680k it spent on anti-fraud ads with search giant Networks30 Jun 2021 | 7
Former IT manager from Essex pleads guilty to defrauding the NHS of £800k Invoices from his own companies were just less than the amount he was able to sign off. Services never delivered Legal28 May 2021 | 30
Trustify CEO gets eight years for lying to investors, spending millions on homes, private jets, sports tickets 'Uber of private investigators' failed to live up to its name Personal Tech29 Mar 2021 | 18
Ex-Microsoft exec admits he tried to swindle $5.5m out of taxpayers with COVID-19 relief loans for bogus biz Mukund Mohan invented employees, financial figures in application forms Legal16 Mar 2021 | 14
Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud Databases12 Jan 2021 | 61
About $15m in advertising booked to appear on millions of smart TVs was never seen by anyone, says Oracle Yes, Oracle the database giant. 2020 keeps on being 2020 Personal Tech17 Dec 2020 | 51
Former Microsoft tester sent down for 9 years after $10m gift card fraud Flipping gift cards for cash = fast cars, nice houses and, er, jailtime Legal10 Nov 2020 | 46
Russian jailed for eight years in the US for writing code that sifted botnet logs for web banking creds for fraudsters Harvested usernames, passwords used to drain victims' coffers Security02 Nov 2020 | 9
Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines What she in lacks in ethics, she more than makes up for in persistence Science14 Oct 2020 | 144
Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges That's certainly one way to get around COVID-19 travel restrictions Security01 Sep 2020 | 53
Teen charged after allegedly taking food delivery biz for a ride: $10k of 'fraudulent refunds for stuff not delivered' Kid’s alleged 8-month spree could end with food delivery between jail cell bars Bootnotes27 Aug 2020 | 24
Reap it in the family: Four brothers accused of cheating Amazon out of $19m in wholesaler fraud caper Homeland Security swoops on quad who allegedly committed worst US crime of all: Defrauding Big Business Personal Tech20 Aug 2020 | 15
Architect of tech contractor tax fraud scheme jailed for at least five years Payroll company kept over $70m of tax and founders spent it lavishly On-Prem03 Aug 2020 | 35
Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters No honor among thieves Security23 Jul 2020 | 31
Anatomy of a business email scam: FBI dossier details how fraudster pocketed $500k+ by redirecting payments Electrolux, construction biz fooled into handing over money funneled out of the US to South Africa Security03 Jun 2020 | 7
Crooks set up stall on UK govt's IT marketplace to peddle email fraud services targeting 'gullible' punters Exclusive Who would have thought the G in G Cloud stood for Gangster? SaaS18 May 2020 | 16
There's Norway you're going to believe this: Government investment fund conned out of $10m in cyber-attack Updated Police pining to drop the Lillehammer on crooks Security14 May 2020 | 10
US piles yet more charges on Theranos CEO, COO. We could do with good blood testing now... and this wasn't it Elementary, my dear Holmes Science11 May 2020 | 23
Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property Cyber-crims bone up on methods for fun and profit, but mainly profit Security16 Apr 2020 | 16
Low-orbit internet banking fraud claim alleged to be a load of space junk This is what comes of mixing the International Space Station, a relationship breakdown, and banking records Security09 Apr 2020 | 10
China's biggest e-learning company admits deliberately getting its sums wrong when counting sales Employee cuffed after forged contracts and dodgy documents discovered On-Prem09 Apr 2020 | 32
Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted' Column Well, isn't this a lovely paranoid bed we've made for ourselves Security05 Mar 2020 | 124
Fake docs rock real docs: Ex-Wall St guy accused of conning medics out of £27m for bogus cryptocurrency fund using faked paperwork He spent the dosh on himself rather than invest it as promised, prosecutors claim Science12 Feb 2020 | 26
Robbing-some Caruso and pal lived life of luxury using victims' millions in crypto-Ponzi scam, say prosecutors Pair allegedly gambled away investor cash and blew the rest on private jet and cars, mansion, fashion Science06 Feb 2020 | 20
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
Russian super-crook behind $20m internet fraud den Cardplanet and malware-exchange forum pleads guilty Now 29-year-old faces years in the clink after long battle to bring him to justice Security24 Jan 2020 | 13
Bank IT bod pocketed nearly $1m in kickbacks from tech contractor bosses for sending deals their way, Feds claim Cuffed procurement bureaucrat took percentage cut, it is alleged On-Prem21 Jan 2020 | 10
IT exec sets up fake biz, uses it to bill his bosses $6m for phantom gear, gets caught by Microsoft Word metadata And now he faces up to 20 years in the slammer Security04 Jan 2020 | 96
Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail Scammer and pals blew the cash on cosmetic surgery, jewelry, swanky pads, flash motors Bootnotes16 Dec 2019 | 80
Reasons to be fearful 2020: Smishing, public Wi-Fi, deepfakes... and all the usual suspects Too soon for New Year Resolutions? Security06 Dec 2019 | 23
VCs find exciting new way to blow $1m: Wire it directly to hackers after getting spoofed Who needs an elevator pitch when you have man-in-the-middle attack? Security05 Dec 2019 | 18
It's 2019 so, of course, there's alleged ad fraud to the tune of $1bn in tech pushed to doctors Execs accused of inflating advert views and sales on fondleslabs, signs installed in medical offices Personal Tech26 Nov 2019 | 11
ICO scammer Maksim Zaslavskiy to miss 2020 Tokyo Olympics over digital currency fraud Businessman gets 18 months for bogus cryptocoin sales Security20 Nov 2019 | 15
Shopped online at Macy's last month? Might want to toss, or at least check, that card Magecart making life difficult yet again for shopping website Security19 Nov 2019 | 4
Feds indict 14 over alleged scheme to get Apple to replace fake iPhones with real ones Cloned kit had real IMEI and serial numbers, keeping the scam going for eight years Personal Tech15 Nov 2019 | 10
What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges Account takeovers allegedly used to plunder digital wallets Security14 Nov 2019 | 10
Russian bloke charged in US with running $20 million stolen card-as-a-service online souk Prosecutors say 29 year-old was mastermind of prolific 'Cardplanet' operation Security13 Nov 2019 | 5
Surveillance kit slinger accused of slapping 'Made in America' on Chinese gear, selling it to the US government But sure, it's Huawei that's the big security threat Security08 Nov 2019 | 37
Baffled by bogus charges on your Amazon account? It may be the work of a crook's phantom gadget Register readers confirm unseen hardware took bank cards on a joyride Personal Tech04 Nov 2019 | 59
40 million emoji-addicted keyboard app users left with $18m bill – after malware sneaks into Play Store yet again Bogus charges being racked up by Android tool Applications01 Nov 2019 | 33
A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account – and web giant did nothing about it for months Crook exploited security hole, hijacked punter's bank cards Security31 Oct 2019 | 155
No one would be so scummy as to scam a charity, right? UK orgs find out the hard way Research blames 'culture of trust' for weak fraud protections Security21 Oct 2019 | 50