Cyber Crime
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724Conti ransomware gang demanded $40m from US school district
Broward County Schools district in Fort Lauderdale, FL was attacked by the infamous Conti ransomware group last month. In a series of...
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4.5KGamers targeted in new malware attack with games cheat codes
The malware used in this attack is XtremeRat (ExtRat) which is a commercially available remote access trojan (RAT). It is a known...
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3.3KDeepDotWeb admin pleads guilty to money laundering, kickbacks
DeepDotWeb (DDW) was seized by the FBI in April 2019 and Tal Prihar, an Israeli citizen was arrested from Brazil. Owner of...
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1.4KHackers Setup Fake Cyber Security firm to Target InfoSec Experts
Google believes the hackers are backed by the North Korean government. In January 2020, Google revealed that cyber criminals have been targeting...
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Apex Legend players banned for winning via DDoS attacks
Gaming studio Respawn has banned two Apex Legend players for winning via DDoS attacks which caused connectivity issues for other players. Respawn...
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1.5KSilverFish: Swiss firm accesses servers linked to SolarWinds hackers
Dubbed SilverFish by researchers at PRODAFT; the group is one of the many culprits behind the massive SolarWinds hack. A Swiss cybersecurity...
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4.1KSpaceX employee admits security fraud, insider trading on dark web
Prosecutors stated that between 2016 and 2017, Jones bought names, birth dates, and social security numbers from the Dark Web to create...
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3.3KVengeful IT worker gets jail time for deleting company’s Microsoft user accounts
The company was left to deal with three months’ worth of IT problems
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4.4KBotnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection
Akamai has published new research explaining techniques used by the operators of a cryptocurrency mining botnet campaign to evade detection in which...
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929Crypto firm Tether claims hackers have demanded $24m in ransom
Tether has reportedly refused to pay the 500 BTC ransom demand amid threats of a data leak. In its latest tweet, the...
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5.0KHackers hit Microsoft Exchange Server to steal email data
Microsoft says Chinese hackers from the Hafnium group waged “limited and targeted attacks,” in which its Exchange Email servers were breached to...
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4.2KIT Security firm Qualys extorted by Clop gang after data breach
Qualys has confirmed that the Clop ransomware gang is behind the cyber attack that exploited Accellion exploit. California-based IT, and compliance...
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2.2KU.S. DOJ warns of fake unemployment benefit websites stealing data
The United States Justice Department has recently warned civilians regarding cyber-criminals who are impersonating state workforce agencies (SWAs) in order to steal...
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1.0KJohn McAfee Charged with Fraud in Cryptocurrency Scam
Remember when John McAfee claimed Bitfi’s wallet is unhackable and then it got hacked twice? Now, anti-virus software creator John McAfee has...
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3.7KPolice shut down illegal video streaming app Mobdro with 100M users
Authorities have arrested 4 people from Spain and Andorra while servers behind Mobdro have also been seized. The Spanish National Police with...
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1.5KMastermind of 2020’s top celebrity Twitter hack sentenced to 3 years
At the time of the Twitter hack and his arrest, Graham Ivan Clark was 17, therefore, being sentenced as a “youthful offender.”...
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4.3KUS charges Swiss hacker behind massive Verkada security camera hack
The hacker Till Kottmann (aka “deletescape”) has been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft by the US Department of...
