cybercrime

Group-IB conducted a large-scale study of the underground market, identifying key hotbeds of threats to business and the public sector. In the Hi-Tech Crime Trends report, analysts record the merging of cybercrime groups within the framework of partner programs that are put on stream. They are...

In 2023, four thousand IT crimes were recorded. Since 2020, the number of IT crimes committed by minors in Russia has increased 74 times. This was announced by Artem Babintsev, Senior Inspector for Special Assignments of the Main Department for Public Order Protection of the Ministry of...

It is only a matter of minutes between informing and attacking hackers. Experts from Palo Alto Networks revealed that attackers have recently increasingly switched to so-called "scanning attacks" initiated by malware to identify vulnerabilities in target networks. Moreover, the source of the...

Prosecutors have uncovered a scheme to earn Meta money by stealing business accounts. Attorneys General of 41 US states have addressed Meta*, highlighting the sharp increase in complaints about hijacking of Facebook and Instagram user accounts across the country and stating the need for...

The international operation Kronos is bearing fruit. As part of the international operation Kronos, which began on Monday, February 19, at least three accomplices of the well-known extortion gang LockBit were arrested in Poland and Ukraine. These arrests followed the dismantling of the LockBit...

The London conference raises topical issues in the fight against hackers for hire. A unique international conference has kicked off in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, bringing together representatives from 35 countries, as well as key business and technology players. The main purpose...

Everyone can now run their own malicious campaign. Cybersecurity experts draw attention to the" democratization " of the phishing ecosystem due to the transformation of Telegram into the epicenter of cybercrime, which allows attackers to organize mass attacks for relatively little money...

The final round of negotiations is already close. Whose position will be stronger? The US government is firmly committed to its desire for a much narrower version of the UN treaty on cybercrime than the draft published in November. The final round of negotiations on this agreement is expected...

This week, the final preparatory consultations of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the development of a universal convention to combat cybercrime took place in Vienna. Russia has been promoting the idea of developing such a document since 2017, and now at the end of January - beginning of February...

The Royal and Akira victims were subjected to repeated extortion attacks from a benevolent security researcher. The Arctic Wolf Labs team has discovered a new fraud scheme targeting victims of ransomware. According to Arctic Wolf, those affected by the actions of the Royal and Akira groups were...

The growing popularity of malicious methods was studied and disclosed by researchers. Carlo Zanki, a cybersecurity expert at ReversingLabs, has discovered a new trend that many cybercriminals have been using lately. The essence of the trend is the malicious use of the GitHub platform to...

The efforts of OLVX administrators allow it to exist on the open Internet and attract customers. ZeroFOX has discovered the growing popularity of the OLVX cybercrime platform, which provides tools for online fraud and cyber attacks. The platform differs from traditional shadow markets in that...

By type of crime, the most striking indicator is computer fraud — 304,819 crimes registered in the first nine months of this year, which is 22.8 percent more than in the same period in 2022. Data on the increase or decrease in crime in Spain under various sections of the criminal code was...

Changing roles from a security guard to a cybercriminal ended with a prison sentence. In Amsterdam, the trial ended, in the center of which turned out to be 21-year-old Pepein Van der Stap, a former ethical hacker. Pentester was found guilty of committing a series of cyber attacks against more...

A committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan has considered and approved legislative amendments that strengthen responsibility for crimes in cyberspace, the press service of the country's upper house of parliament reports. Amendments are proposed to the Criminal Code, the Code of...

The Global Conference on Combating Cybercrime was held from 15 to 17 October 2023 at the INTERPOL Innovation Center in Singapore. The event was attended by a Russian delegation led by the head of the National Central Bureau of Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Police Major...

The country's largest technology centers have pulled the "blanket of hacker attacks" over themselves. Cybercrime in India has been on the rise for three and a half years, according to a recent report from the Future Cybercrime Research Foundation (FCRF). A detailed analysis showed that the...

Speaking at a meeting of the SMVD, Interior Minister of Belarus Ivan Kubrakov noted his readiness to share best practices in countering cybercrime. - First of all, we are focused on identifying and timely eliminating the conditions that allow using the Internet for criminal purposes. Our task...

Is digital security at risk? Experts review the UN Treaty. Human rights organizations are sounding the alarm about the UN treaty on cybercrime, which is being discussed this week in New York. Experts fear that the treaty could give governments too much power to monitor the Internet and become a...

The Asian Alliance promises to eliminate fraud, gambling and human trafficking. China will cooperate with the authorities of Thailand and Laos to fight cybercrime gangs from Myanmar. Recently, they have often targeted Chinese citizens and organizations. China's Ambassador to Myanmar, Chen Hai...