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
Tech CEO thrown in the clink for seven years for H-1B gang-master role: Crim farmed out foreign staff as cheap labor Workers brought over from India were supposed to tackle specific projects – not fill a pool for short contracts On-Prem24 Sep 2019 | 38
Bulgarian phishing gang member who lived with his parents jailed for part in £40m fraud ring 37-year-old was extradited to Blighty to stand trial Security20 Sep 2019 | 9
Chinese students in UK ripe target for scammers exploiting visa concerns Add in Brexit outsourcing mess and it's plain to see why young international scholars get duped Security19 Sep 2019 |
Required: Massive email fraud bust. Tired: Cops who did the paperwork. Expired: 281 suspected con men's freedom Alleged whaling crooks cuffed in global crime crackdown Security10 Sep 2019 | 8
Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations' Feds claim John Pierre Dupont created fundraising websites supposedly for Beto O'Rourke, others, then nicked the dosh Bootnotes21 Aug 2019 | 52
There's fraud, and then there's backdoor routers, fenced logins, malware, and bribing AT&T staff seven figures to unlock 2m phones Pakistani bloke extradited to US, accused of masterminding telco hack caper Security06 Aug 2019 | 18
Phisherman's blues: Bogus Dell support rep extradited from Kenya, admits he conned US colleges out of $900,000 Scumbag faces up to 20 years in the clink for email fraud Security02 Aug 2019 | 13
Email scammers extract over $300m a month from American suits' pockets FinCEN has recovered more than $500m to date Security17 Jul 2019 | 7
Crypto-chaps on scam rap in a flap over Slack chat tap, want court case zapped: 'Attorney-client priv info' in messages Duo also ask for two-year delay in celeb-studded ICO trial Security01 May 2019 | 5
Microsoft admits: Yes, miscreants leafed through some Hotmail, MSN, Outlook inboxes after support rep pwned Email contents exposed for unlucky punters SaaS15 Apr 2019 | 15
IT meltdown outfit TSB to refund all customers that fall victim to fraud in 'UK banking first' After all, it has had a lot of practice in scam payouts On-Prem15 Apr 2019 | 26
Bucharest's Bayrob boys blasted based on bogus buys, Bitcoin banditry, bound to be behind bars Romanian duo catch 21 felony convictions for selling details of hacked machines on darknet Security12 Apr 2019 | 3
Carolina coward fesses up: I was a tech support scambag, and I made millions out of defrauding the elderly You're free to bash the Bishap Security21 Mar 2019 | 44
Hackers cop a FILA thousands of UK card deets after slinking onto clothing brand's servers Updated Pesky JavaScript harvester strikes again Security14 Mar 2019 | 10
Surprise, surprise, yet another cryptocurrency creator collared, hit with $6 million fraud rap All that glitters ain't gold, as they say Security28 Feb 2019 | 16
Q. What connects the global financial crisis, Ursnif malware, and Coldplay's Viva la Vida? A. Bad things from 2008 we can't seem to shake Security28 Jan 2019 | 6
Facebooker swatted, Kaspersky snares an NSA thief, NASA server exposed, and more Roundup Plus, Vita boot ROM caper, TCL caught slinging Android malware, etc Security12 Jan 2019 | 24
Fake 'U's! Phishing creeps use homebrew fonts as message ciphers to evade filters fg xjc dua ihut vyfq, xjc uih jci sfat jg mjggfa Security04 Jan 2019 | 120
Silicon Valley CEO thrown in the cooler for three years, ordered to pay back $1.5m for bullsh*tting investors Yes, apparently, that can actually happen On-Prem21 Dec 2018 | 25
Fraudster convicted of online banking thefts using… whatever the hell this thing is Ingenious device, or fake bomb from 1980s cop movie? Security13 Dec 2018 | 75
3ve Offline: Countless Windows PCs using 1.7m IP addresses hacked to 'view' up to 12 billion adverts a day Eight people charged after dodgy ads on PornHub used to infect victims Security28 Nov 2018 | 34
If Shadow Home Sec Diane Abbott can be reeled in by phishers, truly no one is safe MP falls for PC support scam Security08 Nov 2018 | 169
Solid password practice on Capital One's site? Don't bank on it What's in your wallet? Definitely not a password manager Security13 Sep 2018 | 56
Sextortion scum armed with leaked credentials are persistent pests If you're going to batter 8,497 folk with over 60,000 threats, odds are someone will crack Security10 Sep 2018 | 39
Silicon Valley CEO admits $1.5m wire fraud: Bouxtie boss forged signatures to investors When I said I have $2m in the bank... Security07 Sep 2018 | 13
Feel the shame: Email-scammed staffers aren't telling bosses about it Fraud on rise and IT workers (of all people) most susceptible Security07 Sep 2018 | 38
Vodafone hounds Czech customers for bills after they were brute-forced with Voda-issued PINs Crooks cracked phone number accounts with passcode '1234' Security07 Sep 2018 | 29
Baddies of the internet: It's all about dodgy mobile apps, they're so hot right now Report lift veil on online fraudsters' current habits Security15 Aug 2018 | 7
IT biz embezzlement brouhaha leaves bloke with $456k migraine Backer charged in connection with alleged $4.1m corporate fraud scandal Security23 Jul 2018 | 9