Stories tagged “Cybercrime.”
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Foreign Nationals Arrested Over Online Scam Activities Shifted to Adiala Jail
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has transferred 284 foreign nationals, arrested in raids targeting online scam activities, to Adiala and Attock jails due to capacity issues. The ongoing investigation probes an organized international fraud network and scrutinizes v…
Four cybercriminals were arrested in Brazil, and three others were charged in Europe over allegations that they exploited a vulnerability at a service provider, allowing them to withdraw funds from Commerzbank customers' bank accounts.
Scammers using fake crypto job offers on LinkedIn have defrauded victims of $11.8 million (S$15.1 million) in Singapore, compromising employers through malware-laden coding assessments.
Ukraine authorities shut down 94 fraudulent call centers across the country, seizing millions in cash and equipment. The call centers lured people into investment scams or tried to obtain access to bank accounts.
The White House has created a program that allows private firms to disrupt foreign cybercriminal networks. Participating companies will operate under DOJ and DHS direction, post a bond of at least $1 million, and face annual review.
The White House has signed a national security presidential memorandum that enables private security companies to apply for approval to hack foreign cybercrime organizations. The program will be overseen by executive directors designated by the Justice and Homeland Securi…
Nearly a third of British manufacturers experienced a cyber-attack in the past year, leading to lost production time and increased costs, according to a MakeUK survey. Only half of these companies have a plan to respond to such incidents, despite the growing threat.
ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script …
Three people were arrested for running a scheme that compromised Singpass accounts of work permit holders by offering cash in exchange for access. The stolen accounts were used to open over 30 LiquidPay accounts and 1,200 phone lines without the victims' knowledge.
Google's security researchers have identified groups of hackers targeting financial and investment firms in the US, using phone calls to trick employees into entering their credentials and extorting them with the threat of publishing stolen data.
A Canadian man pleads guilty to hacking and extorting data from over 165 organizations using cloud storage provider Snowflake.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021.
A hacker, Connor Riley Moucka, pleaded guilty to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts. The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records belonging to at le…
Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies worldwide.
OpenAI disrupts Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT for investment, romance, gambling and law enforcement impersonation schemes.
Three Missouri men have been charged for an alleged August 2024 plot to kidnap a Bitcoin holder in Connecticut and force them to transfer cryptocurrency, a plan they ultimately abandoned.
Greatness PhaaS, a commercial phishing-as-a-service toolkit, has added support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that bypasses Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and steals user tokens.
Hackers are stealing cryptocurrency from supposedly secure offline hardware wallets, exploiting a bug in the Coldcard wallet's code. At least $130 million has been stolen so far.
SOCRadar details DOUBLECUP, a Russian loader-as-a-service active since June 2026 that uses ClickFix lures to stage steganographic PNG images in browser caches, delivering CountLoader and a previously undocumented DeviceManager RAT.
Malian activist Adama Diarra, known as "Ben le Cerveau," received a five-year prison sentence for online threats and insults, while journalist Chahana Takiou was sentenced to one year for undermining state credit.
Mali: Activist and Journalist Sentenced to Prison for 'Undermining State Credit'
Malian justice has sentenced a journalist and an activist to firm prison terms for 'undermining the credit of the State' and 'threats and insults,' highlighting a crackdown on dissent under the ruling junta.
The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the dominant threat actor exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances. Fixes for the vulnerability pair were released by SonicWall in mid-July 2026.
A vulnerability in the Coldcard hardware wallet has been linked to a $70 million Bitcoin theft. The flaw was caused by a firmware integration error that routed seed generation to a deterministic software pseudorandom number generator instead of the STM32 hardware random n…
The New SIM Card Scam That Can Steal Your Banking Data During Vacations
A new scam is targeting people during their vacations by creating fake websites that imitate official telecom operators' portals. These websites ask for phone numbers and account credentials, which are then used to steal personal and banking information.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with an aim to siphon funds from international firms for more than nine years.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with allegedly facilitating terrorist activities and failing to remove prohibited information in violation of Russian law.
The Dysphoria IoT botnet has adopted blockchain-based name services and infected-device relays after a March law-enforcement operation against JackSkid infrastructure. The botnet's population is estimated to be above 200,000 bots, with 4,401 confirmed active devices insid…
A China-linked cybercrime group has been observed using a sophisticated crypter service called Cruciferra to deliver a wide array of remote access trojans (RATs) and information stealer malware.
Criminals are using convincing fake Spotify emails to direct users to cloned websites, stealing login, personal, and payment details for fraudulent online purchases.
Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ShinyHunters and tell recipients that hackers compromised their devices after o…