Cybercrime
The FBIs favorite pants-maker exposes users’ payment cards
Popular US tactical equipment brand and retailer 5.11 Tactical has suffered a data breach impacting tens of thousands of its customers.
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“Lack of love” sparks years-long cyberstalking campaign
A self-proclaimed incel will spend over seven years behind bars after stalking two women while at university.
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Royal Mail impersonated in Prince ransomware campaign
Companies in the UK and the US have been targeted in a new campaign impersonating the British postal carrier Royal Mail to deliver ransomware that’s freely available on GitHub.
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Woman ends up in hospital after nude images leaked across social media
Terrell Ashby, otherwise known as “Jason Brandon,” of Williamsburg, Virginia, embarked on a ten-month sextortion campaign, landing one woman in the hospital.
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Feds crack down on Russian crypto exchanges used by ransomware gangs
The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against several Russian crypto companies – otherwise being used as money laundering fronts for ransomware gangs – including a Russian charged with carrying out millions in transactions.
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Man scams $4M from mostly elderly victims
A federal jury in North Carolina has convicted a leader of a years-long telemarketing scheme that defrauded victims in the United States from a call center in Costa Rica.
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Europol busts massive criminal phishing network, over 480K affected
A giant phishing network that victimized hundreds of thousands has been shut down in Spain and Latin America, resulting in multiple searches and seized items.
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Hacker targets NASA, faces 300+ years behind bars
One man launched a multi-year spear phishing campaign to harvest sensitive information, software, and source code from some of the United States's most powerful institutions.
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Russian hackers attack Taiwanese government in response to president’s comments
A pro-Russia hacker group has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Taiwanese government after it unofficially suggested Beijing should have a territorial dispute with Russia.
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Fortinet confirms data breach after allegedly refusing to pay ransom
Fortinet, the third-largest cybersecurity company in the world, has confirmed it suffered a data breach after a threat actor released 440 gigabytes of exfiltrated data online.
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Teen arrest in ongoing London Transport cyberattack, customer data now confirmed accessed
The UK National Crime Agency announced the arrest of a 17-year-old teenager on Thursday in connection with the ongoing Transport for London cyberattack. TfL's update, also on Thursday, reveals that the attackers definitively accessed customer data.
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Business email scam losses larger than Wyoming economy
More than $55 billion was lost over the past decade to business email compromise (BEC) scams, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This exceeds the economic output of Vermont or Wyoming.
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Cyberstalkers sextort $1.9M from young men via Apple Pay and Cash App
The conspirators posed as young females online in a sextortion scheme that targeted thousands of potential victims in Canada, the UK, and the US.
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Major US car rental breach exposes hundreds of thousands
Attackers roamed the systems of Avis Car Rental, a major car rental service provider, for several days, accessing data of nearly 300,000 individuals.
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Peer-to-peer software used to distribute and receive child porn
Peer-to-peer software, most commonly used for torrenting, allows users to share movies, music, and TV shows. However, this software can be further exploited, allowing child abusers to download and share child sexual abuse material.
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North Carolina man swindles $10M in AI music scheme
Michael Smith has allegedly defrauded $10 million in royalties by using bot accounts to stream AI-generated songs billions of times on platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and YouTube.
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Non-consensual AI deepfake child porn not explicit in law, senator says
An investigation into deepfake images of 20 teenage girls, generated using artificial intelligence (AI), has been launched by the Lancaster County police department.
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Soldier feeds pictures of kids to AI chatbot, creating child porn
A US soldier faces a maximum of 20 years in prison after using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to craft child sexual abuse material.
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American Radio Relay League pays $1M to threat actors after ransomware attack
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has paid threat actors $1 million after the association suffered a ransomware attack in May 2024.
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CEO’s ‘greed with no bounds’ costs him 24 years of freedom
A Kansas CEO transferred millions of dollars to cryptocurrency scammers in a pig butchering scheme, which caused the bank to shut down and investors to lose millions.
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