Former Apple worker pleads guilty to $17m mail and wire fraud charges
Nefarious schemes included harvesting motherboard components and selling them back to Apple
Cyber-crime02 Nov 2022 | 12
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Dropbox admits 130 of its private GitHub repos were copied after phishing attack
Personal info and data safe, stolen code not critical, apparently
Cyber-crime01 Nov 2022 | 2
German cops arrest student suspected of running infamous dark-web souk
Deutschland im Deep Web destroyed
Cyber-crime01 Nov 2022 | 11
India's Home Ministry cracks down on predatory lending apps following suicides
Local media say they're China backed, Ministry only mentions organized crime
Cyber-crime01 Nov 2022 | 4
Pro-China crew ramps up disinfo ahead of US midterms. Not that anyone's falling for it
Hey, Xi, 滚开
Cyber-crime27 Oct 2022 | 16
Feds accuse Ukrainian of renting out PC-raiding Raccoon malware to fiends
Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal
Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 1
Ransomware down this year – but there's a catch
2021 was such a banner year for extortionists, 2022 is gonna look rosy in comparison
Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 1
Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse
All four million customers at risk of having records of medical treatments exposed
Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 11
Gone phishing: UK data watchdog fines construction biz £4.4m for poor infosec hygiene
Staff member bit on lure, ultimately exposed up to 113,000 colleagues' personal information
Cyber-crime25 Oct 2022 | 11
Payment terminal malware steals $3.3m worth of credit card numbers – so far
With shops leaving VNC and RDP open, quelle surprise
Cyber-crime24 Oct 2022 | 14
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
Could you not? BlackByte ransomware slinger twists the knife with data stealer
Your IT storage may go from terabytes to Exbytes
Cyber-crime24 Oct 2022 | 3
Hacktivists say they stole 100,000 emails from Iran's nuclear energy agency
Tehran laughs it off as foreign psyop or media stunt. Just don't remind them about Stuxnet, OK?
Cyber-crime24 Oct 2022 | 1
Health insurer's infosec incident diagnosis goes from 'take a chill pill' to emergency ward
Updated Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers
Cyber-crime20 Oct 2022 | 12
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
Upstart Ransom Cartel linked to REvil veterans
Lesser of two REvils? There’s a relationship, say infosec bods, but not enough to say one evolved into the other
Cyber-crime18 Oct 2022 | 4
Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars
Hotwiring is so 2021
Cyber-crime18 Oct 2022 | 116
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
'Baby Al Capone' to pay $22m to SIM-swap crypto-heist victim
Too young to drive, old enough to bribe AT&T staff, apparently
Cyber-crime15 Oct 2022 | 18
Store credit card numbers in a debug log, lose millions of accounts. Cost? $1.9m
That's roughly 300,000 Shein crop tops
Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 4
LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites
Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack
Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 2
Mormon Church IT ransacked, data stolen by 'state-sponsored' cyber-thieves
Don't get your underwear in a twist
Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 54
Insurer Medibank hit by targeted cyberattack
Hot on heels of Optus and Dialog breaches, criminals turn sights to insurance sector
Cyber-crime13 Oct 2022 | 1
How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm
Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit
Cyber-crime12 Oct 2022 | 35
Crypto exchange Bittrex coughs up $53m to end claims of US sanctions busting
Feds also said the biz sucked at policing transactions for suspicious activity – as if!
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2022 | 12
Singtel confirms digital burglary at Dialog subsidiary
Second of Singapore telco's Australian businesses to be prised open by criminals in weeks
Cyber-crime10 Oct 2022 |
Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens
How's your day going?
Cyber-crime07 Oct 2022 | 58
Utility security is so bad, US DoE offers rate cuts to improve it
New hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid
Cyber-crime07 Oct 2022 | 7
Lloyd's of London cuts off network after dodgy activity detected
Updated Is it Putin? Is it the Norks? Is it a bored teenager? Roll the dice
Cyber-crime07 Oct 2022 | 11
Huge nonprofit hospital network suffers IT meltdown after 'security incident'
Ambulances diverted, patient records frozen, rhymes with handsome wear
Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 18
South Korea cancels passport of Terraform Lab's Do Kwon
Whereabouts of wanted cryptobro unknown, but he's reliably on Twitter
Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 1
Former Uber CSO convicted for covering up massive 2016 data theft
Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice
Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 14
NetWalker ransomware scumbag jailed for 20 years
And note to his crime pals – he said he would sing like a canary
Cyber-crime05 Oct 2022 | 6
DoJ ‘very disappointed’ with probation sentence for Capital One hacker Paige Thompson
‘This is not what justice looks like’ says official on sanction for leak of 100 million records
Cyber-crime05 Oct 2022 | 40
Japanese sushi chain boss resigns amid accusation of improper data access
Data theft stinks, says victim. Alleged perp claims he's getting a raw deal
Cyber-crime04 Oct 2022 | 15
Online romance scamlord who netted $9.5m jailed for 25 years
Hello, love, I need $32k to fix my oil rig
Cyber-crime03 Oct 2022 | 15
Ex-eBay execs jailed for cyberstalking web critics
Still to come: Civil RICO lawsuit against e-souk and former top brass
Cyber-crime30 Sep 2022 | 20
Hacked Fast Company sends 'obscene and racist' alerts via Apple News
Someone going by 'Thrax' claims responsibility for 'incredibly easy' breach
Cyber-crime28 Sep 2022 | 2
Here's how crooks will use deepfakes to scam your biz
Need some tools of deception? GitHub's got 'em
Cyber-crime28 Sep 2022 | 12
Samsung sued for gobbling up too much personal info that miscreants then stole
If you're gonna force everyone to register an account, at least protect that data, lawsuit argues
Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 9
Meta busts first Chinese campaign prodding US midterms
Russian cybercriminals were also caught targeting Europe with anti-Ukraine messages
Cyber-crime27 Sep 2022 | 8
Noberus ransomware gets info-stealing upgrades, targets Veeam backup software
'One of the most dangerous and active malware developers operating at the moment'
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2022 | 6
Open up, it's the IRS. We're here about the crypto tax you dodged
'At least ten' people didn't declare coin income. Wow, what a bust
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2022 | 26
Significant customer data exposed in attack on Australian telco
Updated Subscribers have questions – like 'When were you going to tell us?'
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2022 | 14
Check out this Android spyware, says Microsoft, the home of a gazillion Windows flaws
While issuing an emergency patch for Endpoint Configuration Manager
Cyber-crime22 Sep 2022 | 7
ChromeLoader, what took you so long? Malvertising irritant now slings ransomware
Doesn't make cents, makes bigger bucks instead ... probably
Cyber-crime21 Sep 2022 | 10
Crypto biz Wintermute loses $160m in cyber-heist, tells us not to stress out
The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed
Cyber-crime20 Sep 2022 | 10
Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist
So is that three or four stars?
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2022 | 23
School chat app Seesaw abused to send 'inappropriate image' to parents, teachers
This is why we don't reuse passwords, kids
Cyber-crime16 Sep 2022 | 24
Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked
Updated AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more
Cyber-crime16 Sep 2022 | 44
Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft
Updated Admits guilt, but claims he took files to jog his memory, afraid he'd not keep up with 'younger engineers'
Cyber-crime15 Sep 2022 | 20
Iran steps up its cybercrime game and Uncle Sam punches back
Criminal charges, more sanctions, and a $10m bounty, oh my
Cyber-crime15 Sep 2022 | 15
Ransomware gang threatens 1m-plus medical record leak
Criminals continue to target some of the most vulnerable
Cyber-crime14 Sep 2022 | 5
DoJ charges pair over China-linked attempt to build semi-autonomous crypto haven on nuked Pacific atoll
Yes, that’s a lot to digest: Marshall Islands legislators allegedly bribed to make it possible
Cyber-crime08 Sep 2022 | 21
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
Cyberattack brings down InterContinental Hotels' booking systems
Online booking systems and other services knocked offline amid network intrusion
Cyber-crime06 Sep 2022 | 16
Convicted felon busted for 3D printing gun parts
Just days after US rules tackling homemade firearms take effect
Cyber-crime02 Sep 2022 | 67
Ex-NSA trio who spied on Americans for UAE now banned from arms exports
From hero to zero-day ... to plain zero
Cyber-crime02 Sep 2022 | 9
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
China-linked APT40 gang targets wind farms, Australian government
ScanBox installed after victims lured to fake Murdoch news sites with phishing emails
Cyber-crime31 Aug 2022 | 7
Biting the hand that feeds IT
