Tag: crime
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The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism””, increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/the-manhattan-institute-helped-kill-dei-now-its-coming-for-protests/
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Beschlagnahmung von Worktitans-Servern beeinträchtigt Irans Cyberoperationen
Ende Mai haben niederländische Ermittler der Financial Crime investigation of Netherlands (FIOD) in Rechenzentren bei Dronten und Schiphol-Rijk rund 800 Server beschlagnahmt. Das Ziel war der Hosting-Anbieter Worktitans B.V., der auf den ersten Blick wie jedes andere Unternehmen für Internetinfrastruktur aussah. Was die Ermittler jedoch aufdeckten, war weitaus bedeutender: eine Operation, die auf sanktionierter Infrastruktur…
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Dutch authorities dismantle hosting network allegedly used for cyberattacks and disinformation
Dutch authorities arrested two suspects and seized 800 servers tied to Stark Industries, a hosting firm linked to cyberattacks and disinformation. Dutch financial crime investigators arrested two men and seized 800 servers connected to Stark Industries, a hosting provider accused of enabling cyberattacks, interference operations, and disinformation campaigns. Authorities said the suspects supported Russian and…
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Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks
Financial crime investigators in the Netherlands (FIOD) arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a web hosting company that enabled cyberattacks, interference operations, and disinformation campaigns. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-of-hosting-firm-enabling-cyberattacks/
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Google AI engineer claims dismissal for opposing tech sales to Israel
‘Our work on AI was sold to facilitate genocide’: Artificial intelligence engineer claims Google unfairly sacked them for internally criticising the company’s decision to continue supplying technology to the Israeli military, despite credible claims of war crimes committed in Gaza First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366643389/Google-AI-engineer-dismissed-for-opposing-tech-sales-to-Israel
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Microsoft Takes Down Fox Tempest for Providing Ransomware-Enabling Signing Tool
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has taken down the infrastructure of Fox Tempest, a prolific cybercrime-enabling threat group First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-takes-down-fox-tempest/
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From PDB strings to MaaS: Tracking a commodity BadIIS ecosystem used by Chinese-speaking threat
Cisco Talos has uncovered a BadIIS variant, identifiable by its embedded “demo.pdb” strings, that functions as commodity malware, likely sold or shared among multiple Chinese-speaking cyber crime groups operating under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model for continuous monetization. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/from-pdb-strings-to-maas-tracking-a-commodity-badiis-ecosystem/
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Crime increasingly a ‘serious barrier’ to UK growth, say business leaders
British Chambers of Commerce survey shows firms ‘are dealing with rising levels of theft, fraud and cyber-attacks’UK business leaders have warned that crime is becoming an increasingly “serious barrier” to growing Britain’s economy amid a rise in shoplifting, fraud and cyber-attacks against companies.The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), which represents tens of thousands of businesses…
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Cyber-Enabled Cargo Crime: How Cybercrime Tradecraft is Used to Steal Freight
Cargo theft now starts with phishing emails and stolen credentials, not hijackings, to reroute and steal freight from supply chains. NMFTA outlines how cyber-enabled cargo crime is changing transportation security. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cyber-enabled-cargo-crime-how-cybercrime-tradecraft-is-used-to-steal-freight/
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India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree
Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/06/india_seb_mythos_infosec_advice/
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‘They protect the law while breaking it’: Inside Europol’s shadow IT system
Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated without key legal and technical safeguards First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642525/They-protect-the-law-while-breaking-it-Inside-Europols-shadow-IT-system
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‘They protect the law while breaking it’: Inside Europol’s shadow IT system
Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated without key legal and technical safeguards First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642525/They-protect-the-law-while-breaking-it-Inside-Europols-shadow-IT-system
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Teenager alleged to be Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland, faces US extradition
Here’s a tip for you all. Unless you want to draw attention to yourself as a cybercriminal, don’t flaunt your diamond-encrusted “HACK THE PLANET” necklace on Snapchat, or pose as a Sopranos crime boss while the FBI is reportedly closing in. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/alleged-scattered-spider-hacker-extradition
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True Threats and True Crimes Those Memes You Post Might Be Crimes
Does reposting a “86 47” meme constitute a criminal threat? Analyzing the James Comey indictment through the lens of Counterman v. Colorado and Elonis v. United States. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/true-threats-and-true-crimes-those-memes-you-post-might-be-crimes/
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Senate Judiciary advances bill that would bar minors from interacting with AI companions
The bill, known as the GUARD Act, also requires that AI companions advise users of all ages that they are not human and lack professional credentials. It also makes it a crime for AI companions to knowingly ask kids for sexual content or to produce it. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/senate-judiciary-advances-bill-barring-children-ai-chatbots
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French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency
Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/french_gov_mega_breach_suspect/
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Bad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, banking, business, container, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, fraud, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, resilience, risk, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityBad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals josh.pearson@t“¦ Thu, 04/30/2026 – 07:31 The modern internet is becoming less human by the day. Bot traffic is increasing, and human traffic is shrinking. Malicious automated traffic is getting harder to spot. The Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report, now in it’s…
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Swiss police arrest 10 suspected members of Nigeria-linked crime group Black Axe
Swiss and German law enforcement have arrested 10 suspected members of the Nigerian criminal network Black Axe, including a regional leader believed to oversee operations in Southern Europe. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/black-axe-switzerland-germany-cyber
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Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data
Coming in cold with custom Snow malware First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/25/new_crime_crew_impersonates_help_desks/
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When Research Becomes a Crime: The New Risk Landscape for OSINT and Dark Web Intelligence
For decades, the “gray area” of undercover research was governed by internal policies. The SPLC indictment suggests that internal oversight is no longer a shield. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/when-research-becomes-a-crime-the-new-risk-landscape-for-osint-and-dark-web-intelligence/
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The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial
Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internetAnthropic announced its latest AI model, <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/08/anthropic-ai-cybersecurity-software”>Claude Mythos, this month but said it would not be released publicly, because it turns computers into crime scenes. The company claimed that it could find previously unknown…
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Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Aiding BlackCat Attacks in 2023
A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023.Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O’Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in April 2023 to assist the e-crime gang in extracting higher amounts as ransoms.”Working as a negotiator…
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Timor-Leste parliament questions president over proposed resort’s links to ‘scam’ empire
Jose Ramos-Horta urged by opposition to explain diplomatic passport given to businessman behind resort project, who denies any involvement with organised crimeTimor-Leste’s opposition has questioned how foreign investors in a proposed cryptocurrency resort obtained prime beachfront real estate in the country’s capital, and has called on the president to explain why he issued a diplomatic…
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Why We Actually Need EndEnd Encryption
There is a certain kind of argument that appears every time encryption comes up. Yes, yes, privacy is lovely. But think of the children!!! And just like that, the conversation is over. Because once someone has wheeled in children, terrorists, organised crime, and a shadowy man in a basement who definitely has a beard, anyone……
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Cyber attacks fuel surge in cargo theft across logistics industry
Hackers infiltrate logistics firms to steal cargo and divert payments, cyberattacks are linked to organized crime and rising losses. Proofpoint researchers observed crooks targeting trucking and logistics companies, running coordinated remote access campaigns to steal cargo and divert payments. These attacks appear to be linked to organized crime. The findings highlight a growing trend of…
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Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Federal Court
Tyler Buchanan Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Identity Theft. A senior figure in the Scattered Spider cybercrime group pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on Friday in US federal district court. The plea marks the conclusion of a digital…
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Cargo Hackers Hit Trucking Firms to Steal Physical Shipments
Hackers are increasingly breaking into trucking and freight companies to quietly hijack real-world cargo shipments, turning digital access into physical theft at scale. Researchers say organized crime rings are teaming up with cybercriminals to exploit the systems carriers and freight brokers use every day to book and dispatch loads. Cargo theft is already a multi”‘billion”‘dollar…
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The need for a board-level definition of cyber resilience
Tags: awareness, business, cisa, compliance, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, detection, finance, framework, governance, law, metric, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-analysis, risk-management, service, supply-chain, technologyWhere the literature converges: Organizational outcomes vs. policy and controls It’s consistently agreed that cyber resilience should be tied to organizational outcomes rather than technical controls and policies. Rather than focusing on metrics such as mean time to detection or number of security controls, organizational cyber resilience needs to evaluate levels of business continuity, preservation…
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Ransomware Lives On, Blending Hacktivism and Crime, Fueled by AI
Ransomware will never die, will it? In fact, it’s more powerful than ever thanks to GenAI and creative operators that evolve techniques to generate profit. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/ransomware-lives-on-blending-hacktivism-and-crime-fueled-by-ai/
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Ransomware Lives On, Blending Hacktivism and Crime, Fueled by AI
Ransomware will never die, will it? In fact, it’s more powerful than ever thanks to GenAI and creative operators that evolve techniques to generate profit. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/ransomware-lives-on-blending-hacktivism-and-crime-fueled-by-ai/