Cybercrime
Dutch healthcare software firm claims hackers destroyed stolen medical records amid ransom speculation
ChipSoft says it has prevented stolen data from being published, and that the attackers have now destroyed it.
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Teen hacker’s lavish lifestyle curtailed after feds uncover Scattered Spider links
Authorities believe Stokes' hacking activity caused at least $2 million in damages, with the teenager splurging his gains on luxury hotels and trips.
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Barrier to hacking drops as AI and dark web tools let anyone launch cyberattacks, Europol warns
Cyber threats are becoming more adaptive, professional, and difficult to detect. This trend emphasizes the need for enhanced law enforcement capabilities and international cooperation.
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Americans lose $2.1 billion to Facebook scams, an eightfold jump since 2020
Data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows that, in 2025, Americans lost over $2.1 billion to scams that, in most instances, started on social media. This is an eightfold increase since 2020.
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Telegram abuse ring run by teens with 10,000 users, police find gold bar
Three teenagers have been arrested in Gyeonggi Province in South Korea for running Telegram channels built on doxxed women’s data.
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Google users receive $30 bills after fake CAPTCHA scammed them into sending premium text messages
Scammers are using fake CAPTCHA pages to fool gullible users into sending text messages to international destinations, costing them a lot of money.
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US soldier faces charges for $410K bet using classified Maduro intel
It took almost five months for US law enforcement to track down and bring to court a suspect who allegedly profited by more than $400,000 by using insider information about the US military's capture of Venezuela's former leader, Nicolás Maduro.
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Meta’s scam ad economy is out of control and fueled by AI deepfakes
Over 100 scam ads were detected on Meta platforms in a 24-hour period by the Financial Markets Authority regulators in New Zealand.
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Spain's busted manga pirates: €467K in crypto hidden in thermometer, minors exposed to adult ads
The Spanish National Police have dismantled an online manga piracy platform, which authorities describe as the largest such platform in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Feds seize 500 fake investment sites, Telegram channel in $700M scam crackdown
US authorities have seized more than 500 fake investment websites, a Telegram channel, and arrest two Chinese nationals accused of running a $700M scam network out of Southeast Asia – all to “steal Americans’ life savings.”
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South Korea fines matchmaking app after hackers stole 420,000 bedroom histories
South Korea has fined Duo, one of its most popular matchmaking firms, $815,000 after a major cyberattack exposed everything from blood types to the bedroom histories of nearly half a million singles.
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VPN hacks surge on Russian marketplace where malware coders offered up to $25K a month
Leaked data from the now-seized Russian cybercrime marketplace RAMP suggests that hackers were increasingly turning to compromised VPN systems as a gateway into networks, while some malware developers were offered salaries of up to $25,000 a month.
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South Korea's $2M chip betrayal: Samsung researcher jailed for leaking chip secrets to China
A South Korean court said on Wednesday it had sentenced a former researcher at Samsung Electronics to seven years in prison for leaking semiconductor technology to a Chinese company.
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Scammers plant 26 fake crypto apps in Apple’s Chinese App Store
Kaspersky discovered over two dozen phishing apps in the Chinese Apple App Store mimicking popular and trusted crypto wallets.
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Dutch healthcare tech giant ChipSoft confirms patient records stolen
The threat actor responsible for the ransomware attack on ChipSoft has indeed stolen medical records and other personal information from “several Dutch customers.”
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Social media "finfluencer" gets 6 years in prison for running $20M Ponzi scheme
A 31-year-old jetsetting “finfluencer” will now spend six years behind bars for running a years-long real estate Ponzi scheme that pulled in more than $23 million – scamming dozens of victims while bankrolling a life of luxury.
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Global “rape academy” exposed
Women are being drugged, raped, and filmed all over the world, and the users of these depraved online groups, channels, and forums are profiting from the sexual violence of their own wives and partners.
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Johnny Somali got 6 months for a statue stunt. The real crime was much darker
American rage-bait content creator Johnny Somali has been sentenced to six months in prison in Seoul for a deluge of crimes, including unsolicited use of deepfakes and causing public disorder.
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Predator plants $40 Amazon spy pen in luxury cruise ship bathroom
A man has admitted to planting a spy camera he purchased on Amazon in the unisex bathrooms of a luxury cruise ship.
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Breach of Israeli AI firm Anodot suspected in attacks on Snowflake customers
A suspected breach at an Israeli AI analytics firm may be at the center of a fresh wave of attacks targeting Snowflake customers, with hackers using stolen authentication tokens to access sensitive data across multiple companies.
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