Tag: crime
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The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/loneliness-epidemic-romance-scams-security-crisis/
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Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619194/Google-Cyber-crime-meshes-with-cyber-warfare-as-states-enlist-gangs
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Channel Women In Security: True Crime And Adversary Tactics
Jamie Levy, director of adversary tactics at Huntress, is a seasoned expert in digital forensics and cybersecurity. Levy shares insight on personal security practices and the need for organizations to be prepared for potential breaches. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/true-crime-and-adversary-tactics
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Apple issues emergency patches to contain an ‘extremely sophisticated attack’ on targeted individuals
Security researcher uncovers the exploit: The vulnerability was discovered by Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group at the University of Toronto’s Munk School.Marczak took to social media to urge users to update their devices immediately, stating: “Update your iPhones”¦ again! iOS 18.3.1 out today with a fix for…
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$16 Million Ransomware Operation Shut Down: 8Base Masterminds Apprehended
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), in conjunction with Europol, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bavarian First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/16-million-ransomware-operation-shut-down-8base-masterminds-apprehended/
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IT Teams Worry About Increasing Cost of Cyber Tools From AI Features, While Criminals Barely Use Them
Most IT leaders believe generative AI will increase the cost of their security tools, according to Sophos research. But, by the looks of cyber crime forums, hackers are barely using AI. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-cybersecurity-costs/
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S. Korea’s Notorious Sex Crime Hub Ya-moon Hacked, User Data Leaked
Ya-moon, S. Korea’s notorious sex crime hub operating since 1990, hacked; user data leaked, exposing CSAM, exploitation, and illicit activities. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/s-koreas-crime-hub-ya-moon-hacked-user-data-leak/
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Police arrest teenager suspected of hacking NATO and numerous Spanish institutions
Spain’s National Police, in a joint operation with the Civil Guard, has arrested an 18-year-old suspected of being the hacker going by aliases including “Natohub,” and known for hacking the computer services of private companies and Spanish institutions such as the Civil Guard, the Ministry of Defense, the National Mint, and the Ministry of Education,…
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NJ Lawmakers Advance Anti-Deepfake Legislation
New Jersey lawmakers advanced a bill that would make it a crime to knowingly create and distribute AI-generated deepfake visual or audio content for nefarious purposes, the latest step in an ongoing push at the state and national level to address the rising threat. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/nj-lawmakers-advance-anti-deepfake-legislation/
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Justice Department Disrupts Cybercrime Network Selling Hacking Tools to Organized Crime Groups
The Justice Department made a new move in disrupting an international network of cybercriminals by announcing the coordinated seizure of 39 cybercrime websites. These websites, associated with a Pakistan-based operation called the HeartSender, were used to sell hacking tools and fraud-enabling resources to transnational organized crime groups. The action was carried out in collaboration with…
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Europol seeks evidence of encryption on crime enforcement as it steps-up pressure on Big Tech
Europol wants examples of police investigations hampered by end-to-end encryption as it pressures tech companies to provide law enforcement access to encrypted messages First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618230/Europol-seeks-evidence-of-encryption-on-crime-enforcement-as-it-steps-up-pressure-on-Big-Tech
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How organizations can secure their AI code
Tags: ai, application-security, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, github, healthcare, LLM, malicious, ml, open-source, organized, programming, risk, risk-management, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityIn 2023, the team at data extraction startup Reworkd was under tight deadlines. Investors pressured them to monetize the platform, and they needed to migrate everything from Next.js to Python/FastAPI. To speed things up, the team decided to turn to ChatGPT to do some of the work. The AI-generated code appeared to function, so they…
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Krypto-Crime 2024: Wofür Kriminelle Kryptowährungen nutzen
First seen on t3n.de Jump to article: t3n.de/news/cryptocrime-2024-chainalysis-report-1668656/
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Illicit Crypto-Inflows Set to Top $51bn in a Year
Chainalysis estimates threat actors made at least $51bn through crypto crime in 2024 First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/illicit-cryptoinflows-top-51bn-year/
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Case Studies on Fraud and AML Collaboration
Mission Omega’s Ian Mitchell on What Works and What Doesn’t in Program Integration. Fraud management and anti-money laundering represent two distinct disciplines in financial crime prevention. While AML primarily is a compliance-driven function, fraud is a risk management function driven by the organization’s risk appetite for fraud, said Ian Mitchell, co-founder of Mission Omega. First…
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Microsoft sues overseas threat actor group over abuse of OpenAI service
Microsoft has filed suit against 10 unnamed people (“Does”), who are apparently operating overseas, for misuse of its Azure OpenAI platform, asking the Eastern District of Virginia federal court for damages and injunctive relief.The suit was filed in late December but was not made public until last Friday, when the initial sealed filings were revealed.…
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Microsoft Sues Hacking Group Exploiting Azure AI for Harmful Content Creation
Microsoft has revealed that it’s pursuing legal action against a “foreign-based threatactor group” for operating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to intentionally get around the safety controls of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) services and produce offensive and harmful content.The tech giant’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) said it has observed the threat actors “develop First seen on…
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PhishWP Impersonates Stripe, Spreads Across Russian Crime Forums
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/phishwp-wordpress-plugin-impersonating-stripe-spreads-across-russian-cybercrime-forums
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Turbulence at UN aviation agency as probe into potential data theft begins
Crime forum-dweller claims to have leaked 42,000 documents packed with personal info First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/icao_data_theft_investigation/
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Hackers Brute Force Your Passwords?
Cybercrimes have always existed as a result of internet usage in our society. Traversing the wide web, hackers are trying to exploit any nooks and crannies in the system. While many new types of crimes are arising on the internet, brute-force attacks are still the most common. Based on recent research, they have grown from…
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Law enforcement agencies see AI as a key tool for reducing crime
A U.S. national survey of first responders reveals strong support for AI adoption, cybersecurity concerns, and increasing demand for cloud-native, data-driven, and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/27/first-responders-efficiency/
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North Korean Cyber Actors TraderTraitor Steal $308 Million in Cryptocurrency: DMM Breach Unveiled
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), and Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) have issued a joint press release detailing a major cryptocurrency theft.... First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/north-korean-cyber-actors-tradertraitor-steal-308-million-in-cryptocurrency-dmm-breach-unveiled/
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792 Syndicate Suspects Arrested in Massive Crypto and Romance Scam: The Rise of Cybercrime as a Corporate Enterprise
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently executed a landmark operation in Lagos, Nigeria, arresting 792 suspects for their alleged involvement in a cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scam. The raid, conducted at an imposing seven-storey building in Victoria Island, sheds light on the systematic infrastructure and advanced methods employed by these fraud networks…
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Cryptocurrency hackers stole $2.2 billion from platforms in 2024
$2.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from various platforms in 2024, Chainalysis’ 2025 Crypto Crime Report has revealed. Of that sum, $1.34 billion was stolen … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/19/cryptocurrency-hackers-stole-2-2-billion-from-platforms-in-2024/
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Europol Details on How Cyber Criminals Exploit legal businesses for their Economy
Europol has published a groundbreaking report titled >>Leveraging Legitimacy: How the EU’s Most Threatening Criminal Networks Abuse Legal Business Structures.Decoding […] The post Europol Details on How Cyber Criminals Exploit legal businesses for their Economy appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform. First seen on gbhackers.com Jump to article: gbhackers.com/europol-details-on-cyber-criminals/
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IAM Predictions for 2025: Identity as the Linchpin of Business Resilience
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, authentication, banking, breach, business, cloud, compliance, corporate, credentials, crime, data, deep-fake, detection, finance, iam, identity, malicious, microsoft, mobile, office, passkey, password, privacy, regulation, resilience, risk, service, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityIAM Predictions for 2025: Identity as the Linchpin of Business Resilience madhav Thu, 12/19/2024 – 05:33 As we look toward 2025, the lessons of 2024 serve as a stark reminder of the rapidly evolving identity and access management (IAM) landscape. The numbers tell the story: The latest Identity Theft Resource Center report indicates that consumers…
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Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2024
From ransomware targeting the NHS to nation-state-backed intrusions, 2024 was another big year for cyber criminals and cyber spooks alike, but they didn’t have it all their own way as the good guys fought back First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366617143/Top-10-cyber-crime-stories-of-2024
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Nigeria Cracks Down on Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud and Romance Scams
The suspects were apprehended in a surprise operation at their hideout in Lagos following intelligence received by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nigeria-cracks-down-cryptocurrency/