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A teenager from Arizona hacked the SIM cards of executives from Northern California. He committed the theft of millions of dollars in bitcoins. The hacker used part of the stolen funds to buy a BMW i8 car for $150,000. The US Department of Justice has accused a teenager and his accomplices of...

Residents of the region deceived customers using fake ads for the sale of goods. Malefactors face up to 8 years in prison. A 27-year-old resident of the region became the organizer of tima, and for a dense vork, he attracted two fellow countrymen. He coordinated the creation of ads on the OLX...

The story began with the fact that a simple Uzbek gamer wanted to buy an account of the popular PUBG game, for which he contacted a user with the nickname "Babaji" in Telegram — after discussing the terms of the transaction, the scammersant requested an advance payment of 700 thousand soums...

Canonical has announced the introduction of experimental disk encryption support in the fall release of Ubuntu 23.10, which does not require entering a disk unlock password at boot, thanks to storing information for decrypting keys in the TPM (Trusted Platform Module). Automatic unlocking of an...

A resident of the US state of Massachusetts was arrested and charged with an elaborate bank fraud scheme, thanks to which he managed to cash out more than 100 fake checks totaling about one million dollars. According to Fox News, the scam of 41-year-old Hui Zhang (Hui Zhang) ended for him with a...

As it became known to Kommersant, Vitaly Sokolovsky, one of the leaders of the Blagoveshchie investment fund, was arrested in Moscow. He and his partner Vitaly Pavlov, according to investigators, rented offices in the capital, attracted tens of millions of rubles of individuals under the guise...

Thailand's Cybercrime Investigation Bureau has arrested five foreign nationals for organizing a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme. This is reported by local media. Victims of a platform called bchgloballtd.com at least 3,280 people were killed. They started contacting the police in...

The co-founder of Remilia Corporation, under the pseudonym Charlotte Fang, reported that the developers of the Milady NFT ecosystem stole about $1 million and hacked the project's social media accounts. According to Charlotte Fang, the developers of Milady NFT stole about $1 million and code...

The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to introduce criminal penalties for "drops" – those who transfer, use electronic means of payment or provide access to them, thus helping fraudsters to withdraw stolen money, said Danil Filippov, Deputy head of the Investigative Department of the...

A woman in a Finnish prison spends three-hour shifts reading texts about real estate on a laptop and answering questions. She gets €1.54 per hour for this. The work may seem monotonous, but it plays a key role in training artificial intelligence for the Finnish startup Metroc. Metroc has...

In the US state of Pennsylvania, the case of a group of carders consisting of five people is being prepared for transfer to the court. The York Daily Record reports that they specialized in identity theft and credit card theft, which allowed them to become two million dollars richer. "This was...

In Kryvyi Rih, the cyber police, with the participation of the special unit "TOR" and with the assistance of the security service of Privatbank, detained members of a gang of fraudsters who deceived Ukrainians using illegally reissued mobile SIM cards of Ukrainian operators. According to the...

Rui Pintu was given a four-year suspended prison sentence on Monday after being found guilty of the nine crimes he was charged with. Anibal Pinto was also sentenced to two years of probation. At the sentencing, which took place at the Justice Campus in Lisbon, it was proved that Rui Pinto even...

American top-level domain .us is recognized as one of the most widely used phishing attacks worldwide. Brian Krebs commented on the data published by The Interisle Consulting Group. "The latest Interisle study examined six million phishing messages between May 1, 2022, and April 30, 2023, and...

Kaspersky Lab researchers presented an analysis of Cuba ransomware, looking at the grouping history and typical TTPs. The group came to view in 2020, when it was still called Tropical Scorpius. Other names include ColdDraw, Fidel, and V Is Vendetta. Cuba targets organizations in the United...

Kaspersky Lab researchers uncovered an attack on the supply chain as part of a campaign that has been going on for more than 3 years. During this period, the Free Download Manager site redirected Linux users to the Debian package repository with malware to steal information. Redirects stopped...

Yesterday, on September 12, ETH, TRX and MATIC were withdrawn from the CoinEx cryptocurrency exchange in the amount of about $27 million. There are suspicions that the exchange may have been affected by a hacker attack. Initially, about 4,947 ETH worth $7.9 million was transferred from the...

OKLink and CertiK will develop a technical standard for requesting asset freezes. The initiative is aimed at simplifying the incident reporting procedure and speeding up the freezing of stolen tokens. The partners agreed to deepen cooperation in the field of risk control and data compliance...

Updating the address of the GALA token contract opened a loophole for hackers using old tokens to withdraw liquidity from crypto exchanges. According to a crypto security specialist under the pseudonym X-explore, trading platforms are at risk of placing fictitious deposits based on OLD GALA...

Employees of the Department for Organizing the Fight against the Illegal Use of Information and Communication Technologies of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Rostov region, with the support of special unit soldiers, detained a 26-year-old young man...