Ukraine war blurs lines between cyber-crims and state-sponsored attackers This RomCom is no laughing matter Cyber-crime01 Jun 2023 | 5
Criminals spent 10 days in US dental insurer's systems extracting data of 9 million LockBit gang claimed 'trophy' of spilling low income families' details. Their parents must be proud Cyber-crime31 May 2023 | 12
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1. This crypto-coin is called Jimbo. 2. $8m was stolen from its devs in flash loan attack 3. It's asked for 90% of the digital dosh back, or else it'll beg the cops for help Cyber-crime30 May 2023 | 44
BlackByte ransomware crew lists city of Augusta after cyber 'incident' Mayor promises to comment on Friday Cyber-crime26 May 2023 | 2
Five Eyes and Microsoft accuse China of attacking US infrastructure again Defeating Volt Typhoon will be hard, because the attacks look like legit Windows admin activity Cyber-crime25 May 2023 | 10
This legit Android app turned into mic-snooping malware – and Google missed it File-stealing nasty in my Play store? Preposterous!!1 Cyber-crime24 May 2023 | 19
Philly Inquirer says Cuba ransomware gang's data leak claims are fake news Now that's a Rocky relationship Cyber-crime24 May 2023 |
IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments Ashley Liles altered blackmail emails in bid to make off with £300,000 in Bitcoin Cyber-crime24 May 2023 | 22
US bans North Korean outsourcer and its feisty freelancers They do your work – usually from Russia and China – then send their wages home to pay for missiles Cyber-crime24 May 2023 | 3
Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach Took two years to tell us 'small number of emails' accessed Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 5
Dish confirms 300,000 people's data was exposed in February's attack But don't worry – we know it was deleted. Hmm. How would you know that? Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 4
Ads for lucrative jobs in Asia fail to mention chance of slavery as crypto-scammer FBI warns jobseekers to be very skeptical of working holidays in Cambodia Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 16
Uncle Sam strangles criminals' cashflow by reining in money mules Tech support scammer among those targeted by recent crackdowns Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 7
More UK councils caught by Capita's open AWS bucket blunder As for March megabreach? M&S and Guinness maker Diageo warn pension members about data risks Cyber-crime22 May 2023 | 35
Teen in court after '$600K swiped from DraftKings gamblers' Bet he didn't expect these computer hacking charges Cyber-crime19 May 2023 | 17
Russian IT guy sent to labor camp for DDoSing Kremlin websites Pro-Ukraine techie gets hard time Cyber-crime19 May 2023 | 25
Six million patients' data feared stolen from PharMerica Cue the inevitable class action lawsuit Cyber-crime18 May 2023 | 5
Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates Qilin gang crims can earn up to 85 percent of extortion cash, or jail Cyber-crime17 May 2023 | 4
Feds offer $10m reward for info on alleged Russian ransomware crim Infecting cops' computers is one way to put a target on your back Cyber-crime17 May 2023 | 1
Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick!
WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC Computex Very handy technology, literally
XFS bug in Linux kernel 6.3.3 coincides with SGI code comeback G.N.U. Silicon Graphics: a company is not dead while its name is still spoken
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you
Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it Is he out of touch? No, must be the employees, users, advertisers, regulators, creditors...
Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax' Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg
Cops crack gang that used bots to book and resell immigration appointments Keeping files that mention 'robot rental' may not have been the best way to cover their tracks Cyber-crime16 May 2023 | 24
FTC sues VoIP provider over 'billions of illegal robocalls' XCast knew it was breaking the law and didn't hold back, watchdog says Cyber-crime16 May 2023 | 39
Extra! Extra! Don’t quite read all about it: Cyber attack hits Philadelphia Inquirer Breaking news, literally Cyber-crime15 May 2023 |
Some potential: How bad software updates could over-volt, brick remote servers Video PMFault – from the eggheads who brought you Plundervolt and Voltpillager Cyber-crime15 May 2023 | 3
Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up Smash and grab raids don’t leave time for careful encryption Cyber-crime15 May 2023 | 31
'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats Maybe try carrier pigeons instead Cyber-crime13 May 2023 | 27
Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years after stealing internal corp data, extorting bosses Momentary lapse in VPN led to stretch in the cooler, $1.6m bill Cyber-crime12 May 2023 | 8
Britain's largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in USS says burgled biz reckons data on 470,000 'active, deferred and retired' members may have been accessed Cyber-crime12 May 2023 | 37
UK cops score legal win in EncroChat snooping op But tribunal punts on whether data was intercepted in transit Cyber-crime12 May 2023 | 11
Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers Black Hat Asia The threat is coming from inside the supply chain Cyber-crime11 May 2023 | 49
23-year-old Brit linked to 2020 Twitter attack and SIM-swap scheme pleads guilty Admits to cyberstalking, wire fraud charges as Feds take $700k off him Cyber-crime10 May 2023 | 12
Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs Analyst says expense 'no small drop in ocean' but reputational damage could be 'far greater' Cyber-crime10 May 2023 | 9
FBI-led Op Medusa slays NATO-bothering Russian military malware network Perseus to the rescue as Snake eats itself Cyber-crime09 May 2023 | 9
FYI: Intel BootGuard OEM private keys leak from MSI cyber heist Updated Plus: Court-ordered domain seizures of DDoS-for-hire sites Cyber-crime09 May 2023 | 13
Western Digital: Customer info stolen in that IT attack Hard times for buyers of these hard drives Cyber-crime08 May 2023 | 8
A right Royal pain in the Dallas: City IT systems crippled by ransomware Texas officials preach limited government ... but not this limited Cyber-crime05 May 2023 | 21
Capita admits some pension data 'likely' to have been accessed in March breach Weeks after outsourcer admits 'cyber incident' more warnings issued Cyber-crime05 May 2023 | 23
Ex-Uber CSO gets probation for covering up theft of data on millions of people Exec begged judge for leniency – and it worked Cyber-crime04 May 2023 | 18
288 arrested in multinational Monopoly Market takedown US tells criminals it 'will find you' and has a particular set of skills Cyber-crime02 May 2023 | 16
Data loss costs are going up – and not just for those who choose to pay thieves Ransoms, investigations, and breach-related lawsuits are hitting companies in the wallet, law firm says Cyber-crime02 May 2023 | 6
Russia's APT28 targets Ukraine government with bogus Windows updates Nasty emails designed to infect systems with info-stealing malware Cyber-crime02 May 2023 | 4
IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack Patient data 'was and is never endangered', says medical tech slinger Cyber-crime01 May 2023 | 6
China has 50 hackers for every FBI cyber agent, says Bureau boss Combatting it is going to take more money. Lots of more money. Cyber-crime01 May 2023 | 27
Google sues CryptBot slingers, gets court order to shut down malware domains Hands off those Chrome users, they're ours! Cyber-crime27 Apr 2023 | 7
DoJ, Treasury accuses 3 men of laundering crypto for North Korea If the DPRK is named, you know it somehow involves Lazarus Group Cyber-crime26 Apr 2023 | 3
European air traffic control confirms website 'under attack' by pro-Russia hackers Another cyber nuisance in support of Putin's war, nothing too serious Cyber-crime22 Apr 2023 | 10
Capita has 'evidence' customer data was stolen in digital burglary Admits criminals accessed 4% of servers from March 22 until it spotted them at month-end Cyber-crime20 Apr 2023 | 14
An earlier supply chain attack led to the 3CX supply chain attack, Mandiant says Threat hunters traced it back to malware-laced Trading Technologies' software Cyber-crime20 Apr 2023 | 2
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Medusa ransomware crew brags about spreading Bing, Cortana source code 'Does have a somewhat Lapsus$ish feel' we're told Cyber-crime19 Apr 2023 | 12
Spyware slinger QuaDream’s reported demise may be the canary in the coal mine Analysis NSO and others are still out there, but pariahs find it hard to do business Cyber-crime19 Apr 2023 | 3
US citizens charged with pushing pro-Kremlin disinfo, election interference Also a bunch of Russians plus someone giving free trips to the Motherland Cyber-crime18 Apr 2023 | 10
Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data No worries, outsourcer only handles government tech contracts worth billions Cyber-crime18 Apr 2023 | 39
Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great Special report Let's go through all the proposed problematic powers, starting with surveillance and censorship Cyber-crime14 Apr 2023 | 23
US extradites Nigerian charged over $6m email fraud scam Maybe our prince has come at last Cyber-crime14 Apr 2023 | 10
Pentagon super-leak suspect cuffed: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman When bragging about your job on Discord gets just a little out of hand? Cyber-crime13 Apr 2023 | 96
FBI: How fake Xi cops prey on Chinese nationals in the US 你好 [insert name], 我在 Ministry of Public Security 工作 [insert shakedown] Cyber-crime12 Apr 2023 | 17
40% of IT security pros say they've been told not to report a data leak In Brief Plus: KFC, Pizza Hut owner spills more beans on ransomware hit... latest critical flaws... and more Cyber-crime11 Apr 2023 | 16
How much to infect Android phones via Google Play store? How about $20k Or whatever you managed to haggle with these miscreants Cyber-crime10 Apr 2023 | 9
Inside FTX: Jokes about misplaced funds, diabolical IT, poor oversight, and worse How's the saying go? $50m here, $50m there, pretty soon you're talking real money Cyber-crime10 Apr 2023 | 22
Microsoft, Fortra are this fed up with cyber-gangs abusing Cobalt Strike Oh, sure, let's play a game of legal and technical whack-a-mole Cyber-crime10 Apr 2023 | 8
MSI hit in cyberattack, warns against installing knock-off firmware 1.5TB of databases, source code, BIOS tools said to be stolen Cyber-crime07 Apr 2023 | 8
Criminal records office yanks web portal offline amid 'cyber security incident' ACRO says payment data safe, other info may have been snaffled Cyber-crime06 Apr 2023 | 20
Cops cuff teenage 'Robin Hood hacker' suspected of peddling stolen info Luxury cars and designer duds don't seem very prince of thieves Cyber-crime06 Apr 2023 | 25
Cops put the squeeze on Genesis crime souk denizens, not just the admins this time Feds managed to image entire backend server with full details Cyber-crime05 Apr 2023 | 1
Notorious stolen credential warehouse Genesis Market seized by FBI Operation Cookie Monster crumbles stolen data-as-a-service vendor Cyber-crime05 Apr 2023 | 12
Feds seize $112m in cryptocurrency linked to 'pig-butchering' finance scams Thieves go nose-to-tail stripping cash from victims Cyber-crime04 Apr 2023 | 13
Uber driver info stolen yet again: This time from law firm Never mind software supply chain attacks, lawyers are the new soft target? Cyber-crime03 Apr 2023 | 14
Western Digital confirms digital burglary, calls the cops Thinks info from internal systems 'obtained' by miscreant, unsure of nature or scope data Cyber-crime03 Apr 2023 | 10
3CX thought supply chain attack was a false positive Updated 'It's not unusual for VoIP apps' says CEO Cyber-crime03 Apr 2023 | 23
Ukrainian cops nab suspects accused of stealing $4.3m from victims across Europe If the price looks too good to be true, it probably is Cyber-crime01 Apr 2023 | 13
Do you use comms software from 3CX? What to do next after biz hit in supply chain attack Miscreants hit downstream customers with infostealers Cyber-crime30 Mar 2023 | 25
FTX cryptovillain Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials Court gives him new rules: Use one laptop, while living with the 'rents. Cyber-crime29 Mar 2023 | 52
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President Biden kind of mostly bans commercial spyware from US govt Executive order has loopholes for Uncle Sam's snoop tools and American-made code Cyber-crime28 Mar 2023 | 15
Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies All aboard the chatbot hype train! Next stop: Fraud Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 9
B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 40
BreachForums shuts down ... but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy Admins decide reviving crime-mart is dangerous, hint at new chapter Cyber-crime22 Mar 2023 | 2
Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 4
Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 8
BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that Cyber-crime19 Mar 2023 | 6
You've been pwned, how much will each stolen customer SSN cost you? How about $7.5k? At the very least, with other costs on top Cyber-crime18 Mar 2023 | 16
Feds arrest and charge exiled Chinese billionaire over massive crypto fraud This one has it all: Donald Trump’s inner circle, a Beijing bot backlash, conspiracy theories, and more Cyber-crime17 Mar 2023 | 22
FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say SBF alone pocketed $2.2B, or so this bankruptcy paperwork goes Cyber-crime16 Mar 2023 | 20
LockBit brags: We'll leak thousands of SpaceX blueprints stolen from supplier And also, Ring hit with ransomware, too? No, says Amazon Cyber-crime13 Mar 2023 | 19
India floats idea of dedicated tribunal to handle online offences Consultation for the long-awaited Digital India Act is finally under way although the draft law's still not been revealed Cyber-crime13 Mar 2023 | 2
Acronis downplays intrusion after 12GB trove leaks online Cyber-thief said goal was to 'humiliate' data-protection biz Cyber-crime10 Mar 2023 | 8
FBI and international cops catch a NetWire RAT Malware-seekers were diverted to the Feds, severing a Croatian connection Cyber-crime10 Mar 2023 | 4
US House reps, staff health data swiped in cyber-heist Data for sale via dark web, Senate in line of fire, too Cyber-crime09 Mar 2023 | 8
Aussie tech worker payroll scheme operators found guilty of tax fraud Contractors left hanging while principals splurged on luxury goods Cyber-crime08 Mar 2023 | 19
Acer confirms server intrusion after miscreant offers 160GB cache of stolen files Customer info safe, or so we're told Cyber-crime08 Mar 2023 | 4
DoppelPaymer ransomware suspects cuffed, alleged ringleaders escape Millions extorted from victims, one attack left hospital patient dead Cyber-crime06 Mar 2023 | 4
Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger' SCSW Industry hasn't 'improved much at all' Mandiant's Eric Scales tells us Cyber-crime03 Mar 2023 | 22
Intruder alert: WH Smith hit by another cyber attack Less than a year after Funky Pigeon leaked data of greetings cards biz Cyber-crime02 Mar 2023 | 14
Dish: Someone snatched our data, if you're wondering why our IT systems went down Outage-hit telco still won't confirm ransomware infection, or if it's paying up Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 4
News Corp outfoxed by IT intruders for years All the news that's fit to pwn Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 37
US Marshals Service leaks ‘law enforcement sensitive information’ in ransomware incident It’s not just another data breach when the victim oversees witness protection programs Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 5
Russian charged with smuggling US counterintel tech to Motherland In brief Also, don't download that 'ChatGPT Windows client,' and this week's critical vulnerabilities to keep an eye on Cyber-crime27 Feb 2023 | 8
Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace Pics Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft Cyber-crime24 Feb 2023 | 84