#cyber-crime

#cyber-crime

Miscreants are misusing OAuth for financially motivated cyber crimes such as phishing and crypto mining.

Microsoft warns that compromised accounts without strong authentication are particularly vulnerable to OAuth abuse.

A US indictment names five members of the cyber-gang Scattered Spider accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency through phishing and ransomware tactics.

A group, including Tyler Robert Buchanan, faces charges for sophisticated cyber attacks, impacting major Las Vegas companies and hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Law enforcement shuts down major phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost, leading to 37 arrests worldwide and revealing 70,000 UK fraud victims.

A predator used sextortion tactics against hundreds of underage victims, resulting in a 17-year prison sentence for extreme exploitation.

A UK man was sentenced to 18 years for using AI to create and sell child sexual abuse imagery.

A serial predator was sentenced to life for exploiting and blackmailing vulnerable teens online, causing severe harm and tragic consequences.

Online abuse in the digital age poses significant risks, particularly for vulnerable youth.

Federal prosecutors intensify efforts against generative AI misuse for child exploitation due to concerns over normalization and increased illicit content.

Kipf hacked the death registry to fake his death and evade child support payments.

Jesse Kipf was sentenced to prison for faking his death to avoid child support, hacking into government systems to manipulate records.

Three men pleaded guilty for running a site assisting cyber criminals to bypass multi-factor authentication, impacting over 12,500 victims in the UK.

A man pleaded guilty to stealing $38 million in cryptocurrency from a financial services company in a cyber intrusion scheme.

Cyber crime syndicates in Southeast Asia have generated up to $37 billion in illicit revenue, intensifying their operations despite law enforcement efforts.

Two British-Nigerian men were sentenced for defrauding local entities through business email compromise schemes, obtaining nearly $1.9 million.

Darren Marble lost $100,000 to SIM swapping, exposing vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency security and the emotional impact on the victims.

Cisco critiques the United Nations' Convention against cyber crime for being overly broad and potentially harmful to citizens' rights and cybersecurity research.

Technology vendors are primarily responsible for creating vulnerabilities in software, enabling cyber crime.

Small and medium-sized businesses are increasingly vulnerable to ransomware attacks, often underestimating their risk.

The film 'Butterfly' dramatizes the complexities of responding to a ransomware crisis.

Ransomware decisions are fraught with moral and practical dilemmas; businesses must weigh risks carefully.

The internet will be safer in five years due to technological advances like passkey technology reducing cybercrime risks.

India plans to train 5,000 Cyber Commandos to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities over the next five years.

Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, is detained in France under investigation for allegations of failure to cooperate with law enforcement on multiple serious crimes.

Two individuals are facing serious charges for stealing over $230 million in cryptocurrency, highlighting the complexities of crypto-related crime and laundering.

The NCA disrupted digitalstress.su, unearthing cyber criminal activities, showing vulnerabilities of such domains, and gathering data for future law enforcement actions.

Sean Francis McGranaghan was sentenced to over six years in prison for attempting sexual communication with children.

Pavel Durov's arrest in Paris has sparked significant mystery and speculation about potential charges and implications related to his platform, Telegram.

A Miami-Dade man was arrested for hoarding child sexual abuse material involving victims as young as two years old.

A cyber criminal gang has published a 573GB tranche of data stolen from the British Library in a ransomware attack.

The published data comprises 90% of what was stolen, indicating that the criminals have likely already sold some of the data.

The U.S. has issued a $2.5 million bounty for Belarusian malware developer Volodymyr Kadariya, linked to major cyber crime operations involving the Angler exploit kit.

Cobalt Strike, a legitimate tool, is exploited by cyber criminals through pirated versions, contributing to major cyber attacks like ransomware incidents.

RansomHub is likely associated with the Knight ransomware gang.