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SentinelLabs experts have discovered a new destructive malware called AcidPour, which destroys data and targets IoT and network devices based on Linux x86. Researchers believe that AcidPour is a variant of another well — known viper-AcidRain. AcidRain is a malware designed to destroy data on...

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Canadian Klaus Pflugbijl, 58, and Chinese Yilong Shao, 47, with conspiring to pass on trade secrets to Tesla. Pflugbijl was arrested Tuesday morning on Long Island. The man was sure that he was going to a meeting with buyers to discuss the deal, but...

FSB officers detained a hacker who illegally obtained information about login and password pairs from electronic payment instruments for the subsequent theft of large amounts of money, the press service of the Russian Federal Security Service for the Tyumen region reports. "As a result of...

A resident of Grodno transferred more than Br50 thousand to fraudsters. BelTA learned this from Inna Poznyak, official representative of the USC for the Grodno region. "Since the beginning of the year, more than 30 criminal cases have been initiated in the Grodno region, in which the victims...

Prosecutors of the Volyn regional and Lutsk district Prosecutor's Offices sent to the court an indictment in criminal proceedings on the commission of fraud by two citizens of the Russian Federation and a resident of Zhytomyr as part of an organized group (Part 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal...

The attacker "sold" non-existent clothes in the Internet network for real money. In general, the pseudo-seller lured 11 thousand hryvnias from the victims. Investigators have already informed the offender of the suspicion. For what he did, he faces from a fine to imprisonment. Officers of the...

The cyber police of the Dnipropetrovsk region, together with the investigators of the regional central board under the procedural guidance of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, stopped the activities of an organized criminal group, which consisted of eight participants. The deal...

In the period from 2017 to 2022, the accused helped legalize criminal funds of a certain Zhimin Qian, whom the prosecutor's office called a "supervillain" during the hearing. According to the investigation, the fraudulent scheme organized in China caused damage to more than 130,000 investors...

Russian retailers have called for a reduction in the standard of living of Russians. They sent a letter to the Government asking to reduce the threshold for duty-free entry from the current 1,000 euros to just 200. If the request is fulfilled, then any purchase in foreign online stores more...

The St. Petersburg police, together with the KLYUCHAVTO corporate security Service, identified and stopped attempts to steal cars from dealerships for sale on the black market. One of the scammers was arrested. The criminals acted as follows. A member of an organized criminal group used forged...

Recently, Apple's M-series processors revealed a vulnerability that allows attackers to extract private keys on macOS computers. The attack vector was named GoFetch. This is a classic problem of information leakage through third-party channels, which in this case allows end-to-end key...

The community-managed first-level blockchain, AirDAO, suffered a hacker attack that resulted in the loss of 126.5 ETH (~$450,000) and 41.61 million AMB (~$512,000). According to the statement, the attacker withdrew funds from the AMB/ETH pool of the Uniswap decentralized exchange. The...

The Irkutsk police received a number of reports from citizens about the theft of their funds when paying for goods in the same online store created by unknown people in the messenger. Employees of OP No. 6 of the Inter-municipal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia...

In the Southern Urals, an 18-year-old resident of the Chuvash Republic will appear in court. The young man deliberately obtained illegal access to personal data of citizens for the purpose of further registration of loans in their name in various microfinance organizations. The accused, having...

The investigator of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Leningradsky district of Kaliningrad opened a criminal case against a 30-year-old employee of a financial and credit organization suspected of committing a crime under Part 3 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian...

Investigators of the Police Department No. 4 of the Investigative Department of the City Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia completed the investigation of the criminal case under hch. 2, 3 and 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud" against a 39-year-old...

He also did not explain how he was able to use a cryptocurrency wallet worth UAH 2 million Based on the materials of the State Bureau of Investigation and the results of monitoring the lifestyle of the Chief Inspector for Special Assignments of the National Police Cyber Police Department, the...

According to the procedural guidelines of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, a group of persons was suspected of fraud (Part 3, 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). According to the investigation, two residents of Kryvyi Rih, involving three people, organized a...

Thus, the defendant deceived two citizens and a limited liability company for more than 200 thousand hryvnias. Law enforcement officers found that the suspect called the victims, and posing as an employee of one of the mobile operators, received their personal data. In the future, the attacker...

A man from Moscow himself wrote to scammers, having fallen for an ad with an optical illusion about a horse. He sent them 5 million rubles. In November 2023, Alexander was looking for a place to invest his savings. I was browsing websites, and on one of them I saw a commercial with a herd of...