Pablo Sanchez, a manager of the moving company ServiMoving , noticed something strange online: a one-star review on their Google Maps page. We checked with the team to find out what had happened, which customer was unhappy, he explained to EL PAIS. A little while later, another one appeared, then another we started to get alarmed, he added. They quickly realized that the reviews weren't being written by real customers. We were baffled, he sighed. Shortly after, they found out what was really going on.
BIG - ShinyHunters confirmed to me that they are behind the recent Okta vishing campaign and have published alleged data from three major victims ( Crunchbase, SoundCloud, and Betterment) on their new blog, stating more are coming. 🔽
An extortionist who demanded €20,000 from two innocent victims - threatening one that their children's throats would be slit and warning another he would be killed - has argued that his five-year sentence was twice as severe as that handed to his co-accused.
Police arrested a 23-year-old man, Jauan Wright, for allegedly impersonating a woman online in order to get explicit nude images from an unnamed student at Louisiana State University (LSU) in the capital city of Baton Rouge, WBRZ reported. The student said he met Wright online, initially believing him to be a woman. Only after sharing nude images of himself did he discover that Wright was a man, he told the LSU police department in a complaint filed on November 23.
Over the past several weeks, I have made the difficult decision to temporarily step away from defending my title. This was not a decision I took lightly. However, when circumstances arise that threaten your personal integrity, your family, and your reputation, there comes a point when you must address them directly, Topuria said in a statement posted to Instagram on Monday.
The sender identified himself as a high school dropout and warned of possible additional attacks targeting Kakao executive sand employees, the company said. The message also included a demand for money to be deposited into a specified account and threatened further action if it was not paid, including a threat directed at Kakao's Jeju office, Kakao said.
Crime is flourishing in the Americas, particularly violent crime. The murder rate remains very high, at more than 20 per 100,000 inhabitants. The expansion of the drug trade, which is stronger than ever, has nourished the criminal landscape from the once-tranquil Uruguay to the perpetually troubled Guatemala. Armed groups born from the drug trade are seeking new businesses, left and right, top and bottom.
In July 2024, two men walked into his office holding guns, he testified with the help of a Mandarin interpreter. Pointing their weapons at his chest, the pair demanded money. He told them he had none. According to authorities, this was an old-fashioned shakedown carried out by the largest gang in the city, Pomona 12th Street. The Times is not identifying the witness over concerns about his safety.
The researcher, Jonathan Clark, says he knows this for a fact because he reported the attack to Coinbase on January 7 after the criminals tried to scam him. According to Clark, Coinbase's Head of Trust and Safety Brett Farmer responded to his "comprehensive security report" the same day he emailed it to the company's security@ address. In a blog about the incident, Clark says Farmer replied: "This report is super robust and gives us a lot to look into. We are investigating this scammer now."
A Brampton man has been arrested following two extortion related shootings in Caledon and Brampton, Peel police announced on Sunday. One suspect is still outstanding, police say. On Oct. 26, police say surveillance footage shows two people firing shots at a Caledon residence near Old School Road and Creditview Road just before 3 a.m. Earlier in the footage, one of the shooters is seen lighting fire on the resident's driveway, according to the press release.
Ernesto is 43 years old and works more than 16 hours a day as a bus driver in Lima. He has always enjoyed his job, is patient with passengers, and likes driving. But he doesn't any more. He knows that every day he risks death. Nearly 70 public transport drivers have been murdered this year in Peru by hitmen for refusing to pay extortion money, according to police data.
Martin had apparently seen how this system worked in practice through his job, and he approached a pair of other people to help him make some easy cash. One of these people was allegedly Ryan Goldberg of Watkinsville, Georgia, who worked as an incident manager at the cybersecurity firm Sygnia. Goldberg told the FBI that Martin had recruited him to "try and ransom some companies."
Shortly before the presser, news broke that Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, and former NBA player and coach Damon Jones had been among the 31 charged by the federal law enforcement. Billups was charged for his alleged role in a Mafia-backed illegal poker operation; Rozier was charged for his role in a sports betting operation; and Jones was allegedly involved in both.
Jean Villanueva's father is a bus ticket collector in Lima, working on one of those vehicles that move amid honking horns and fear. He is one of the targets of the mafias that collect extortion fees from ticket checkers and drivers people who, like so many others, leave home every day without knowing if they will return. Pessimism and weariness are spreading in Peru, but Villanueva, a 29-year-old accountant, prefers not to wait for the country to change on its own.
The trial for an investor who allegedly kidnapped Ontario's self-proclaimed 'Crypto King' after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars to him is set to begin Tuesday in Toronto. Akil Heywood, 41, is facing three charges related to the alleged kidnapping of Aiden Pleterski in early December 2022, and two counts of extortion. Heywood was one of five men charged in July 2023 in connection with the alleged kidnapping.
The Qantas data, which was stolen from a Salesforce database in a major cyber-attack in June, included customers' email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details. On Saturday the group marked the data as leaked, writing: Don't be the next headline, should have paid the ransom.
"While Coberg stood watch over the victim, Iza demanded - and recorded a video of - the victim transferring $127,000 to a bank account Iza controlled," the statement said. "Iza then directed his security guards to take away the victim's passport."
The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens. For the past year, the threat actors have been targeting Salesforce customers in data theft attacks using social engineering and malicious OAuth applications to breach Salesforce instances and download data. The stolen data is then used to extort companies into paying a ransom to prevent the data from being publicly leaked.
According to the indictment, around November 2022, Echeverrias paid for the victim to come to New York from Mexico and live with the defendant for approximately six months. During that time, the victim was forced to pay Echeverrias $800 a night by having sex with various men on Roosevelt Avenue. The victim was also coerced into robbing the men to meet a daily quota set by the defendant. The victim was physically harmed and slapped when she did not comply.
