Fraud

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