Tag: crime
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‘Attacks will get through’: head of GCHQ urges companies to do more to fight cybercrime
Anne Keast-Butler says government and business must to work together to tackle future attacks as AI makes cybercrime easierCompanies need to do more to mitigate the potential effects of cyber-attacks, the head of GCHQ has said, including making physical, paper copies of crisis plans to use if an attack brings down entire computer systems.”What are…
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Self-propagating worm found in marketplaces for Visual Studio Code extensions
Tags: access, application-security, attack, backdoor, backup, best-practice, blockchain, breach, ciso, control, credentials, crime, crypto, cyber, data, data-breach, endpoint, framework, github, gitlab, google, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, marketplace, network, open-source, resilience, risk, sans, security-incident, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormMarketplaces targeted: The Koi Security report is the latest in a series of warnings that threat actors are increasingly targeting VS Code marketplaces in supply chain attacks. Last week, Koi Security exposed a threat actor dubbed TigerJack spreading malicious extensions. And researchers at Wiz just published research showing the widespread abuse of the OpenVSX and…
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AI’s split personality: Solving crimes while helping conceal them
What happens when investigators and cybercriminals start using the same technology? AI is now doing both, helping law enforcement trace attacks while also being tested for its … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/21/ai-cybercrime-digital-forensics/
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AI’s split personality: Solving crimes while helping conceal them
What happens when investigators and cybercriminals start using the same technology? AI is now doing both, helping law enforcement trace attacks while also being tested for its … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/21/ai-cybercrime-digital-forensics/
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Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide
Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud.The coordinated law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, saw 26 searches carried out, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects and…
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Authorities Shut Down Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Seize 40,000 SIM Cards
Law enforcement authorities across Europe have dismantled a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service operation that enabled criminals to commit widespread fraud and other serious offenses across the continent. The coordinated action, codenamed ‘SIMCARTEL’, resulted in seven arrests, the seizure of over 40,000 active SIM cards, and the takedown of infrastructure that facilitated crimes causing millions of euros in…
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Key to Qilin’s Ransomware Success: Bulletproof Hosting
Reigning Ransomware Group Thrives in Part Through Affiliated Cybercrime Services. Security experts say the greatest number of ransomware attacks in recent months has continued to trace to the long-running crime group Qilin, and that the group’s reign is enabled in no small part through an apparently close affiliation with a network of bulletproof hosting providers.…
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PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison
Matthew Lane pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from attacks on PowerSchool and a U.S. telecom company earlier this year. His sentence is half the amount prosecutors sought in the cause. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/powerschool-hacker-matthew-lane-sentenced/
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Hamburg man charged with murder over US teen’s livestreamed death
German authorities issue 204 charges against 21-year-old suspect, alleged to be part of wider network of abusersA man accused of luring children worldwide into a sadistic online abuse network has been charged by German prosecutors with hundreds of crimes, including murder, for the livestreamed death of a 13-year-old American.Using the pseudonym “White Tiger”, the 21-year-old…
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Hamburg man charged with murder over teen’s livestreamed death
German authorities issue 204 charges against 21-year-old suspect, alleged to be part of wider network of abusersA man accused of luring children worldwide into a sadistic online abuse network has been charged by German prosecutors with hundreds of crimes, including murder, for the livestreamed death of a 13-year-old American.Using the pseudonym “White Tiger”, the 21-year-old…
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Beyond the checklist: Building adaptive GRC frameworks for agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, crime, data, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, fraud, governance, grc, international, metric, monitoring, nist, risk, risk-management, strategy, supply-chain, switchAutonomous agent drift First, I experienced an autonomous agent drift that nearly caused a severe financial and reputational crisis. We deployed a sophisticated agent tasked with optimizing our cloud spending and resource allocation across three regions, giving it a high degree of autonomy. Its original mandate was clear, but after three weeks of self-learning and…
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Salesforce Rebuffs ShinyHunters Extortionists’ Ransom Demand
Criminals Behind Salesloft Breach Continue to Target Salesforce-Using Customers. Customer relationship management software giant Salesforce has directly notified customers that it won’t be complying with ransom demands issued by the data-stealing crime group ShinyHunters, which continues to pressure Salesforce-using customers who fell victim to the Salesloft breach. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/salesforce-rebuffs-shinyhunters-extortionists-ransom-demand-a-29689
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LockBit, Qilin & DragonForce Join Forces in Ransomware ‘Cartel’
The three extortion gangs also invited other e-crime attackers to join their collaboration to share attack information and resources, in the wake of LockBit 5.0 being released. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/extortion-gangs-join-forces-ransomware-cartel
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to ‘endlessly harass’ execs
Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it ‘for money and for the love of the game’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/scattered_lapsus_bitcoin_reward/
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UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with £1.5B loan after hack disrupts vehicle production for weeks
The Indian-owned carmaking giant will be bailed out after a cyberattack stalled car production and its downstream supply chain. Critics argue that the bailout sends the wrong message to hackers and crime groups. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/uk-government-bails-out-jaguar-land-rover-with-1-5b-loan-after-hack-disrupts-vehicle-production-for-weeks/
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SMS Pools and what the US Secret Service Really Found Around New York
Tags: apple, authentication, business, china, conference, control, country, credit-card, crime, crypto, data, email, exploit, finance, fraud, google, group, Hardware, infrastructure, iphone, jobs, korea, law, linux, mfa, mobile, phishing, phone, scam, service, smishing, software, theft, usa, windowsLast week the United Nations General Assembly kicked off in New York City. On the first day, a strange US Secret Service press conference revealed that they had seized 300 SIM Servers with 100,000 SIM cards. Various media outlets jumped on the idea that this was some state-sponsored sleeper cell waiting to destroy telecommunication services…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Highlights Vulnerability Management Importance in Breach Analysis, as Orgs Are Urged To Patch Cisco Zero-Days
Tags: 2fa, access, advisory, api, attack, authentication, breach, business, cisa, cisco, cloud, control, credentials, crime, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, fido, finance, firewall, framework, github, grc, guide, identity, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, ISO-27001, kev, law, lessons-learned, malicious, malware, mfa, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, phishing, privacy, ransomware, risk, saas, scam, security-incident, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, worm, zero-dayCISA’s takeaways of an agency hack include a call for timely vulnerability patching. Plus, Cisco zero-day bugs are under attack, patch now. Meanwhile, the CSA issued a framework for SaaS security. And get the latest on the npm breach, the ransomware attack that disrupted air travel and more! Here are six things you need to…
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NCA Arrest Man as HardBit Ransomware Blamed for Airport Outages
The UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested a suspect in connection with a ransomware attack on Collins Aerospace First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nca-arrest-hardbit-ransomware/
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Netherlands establishes cyber resilience network to strengthen public-private digital defence
Network will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366631894/Netherlands-establishes-cyber-resilience-network-to-strengthen-public-private-digital-defence
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NCA Arrest Man as HardBit Ransomware Blamed for Airport Outages
The UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested a suspect in connection with a ransomware attack on Collins Aerospace First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nca-arrest-hardbit-ransomware/
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$439 million recovered in global financial crime crackdown
Authorities around the world have recovered $439 million from criminals following a months-long operation led by INTERPOL. The effort, called HAECHI VI, ran from April through … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/25/interpol-global-financial-crime-crackdown/
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DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens”, some as young as 14″, into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/dhs-has-been-collecting-us-citizens-dna-for-years/
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Canada’s RCMP closes TradeOgre, seizes $40M in country’s largest crypto bust
RCMP shuts down TradeOgre, seizing $40M from crime, the first crypto exchange closure and largest asset seizure in Canada’s history. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police shut down the crypto exchange TradeOgre and seized $40M worth of crypto assets. This is the first crypto exchange shut down by the Canadian authorities. >>RCMP Federal Policing Eastern […]…
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Canada’s RCMP closes TradeOgre, seizes $40M in country’s largest crypto bust
RCMP shuts down TradeOgre, seizing $40M from crime, the first crypto exchange closure and largest asset seizure in Canada’s history. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police shut down the crypto exchange TradeOgre and seized $40M worth of crypto assets. This is the first crypto exchange shut down by the Canadian authorities. >>RCMP Federal Policing Eastern […]…
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Microsoft DCU’s Takedown of RaccoonO365
When I saw the name of the Microsoft Digital Crime Unit’s latest target, “RaccoonO365” I probably reacted to it differently than most. With the help of a friend in Lagos, we’ve been watching the money launderers and things have reached a point that they now refer to what we previously called “Business Email Compromise” or…
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FBI alerts public to spoofed IC3 site used in fraud schemes
The FBI warns that criminals are spoofing the IC3 site to steal personal data and commit fraud targeting cybercrime reporters. The FBI warned that attackers are spoofing the official Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website to steal personal data and commit financial fraud, targeting users who report cybercrimes. The fake websites mimic the real IC3 domain…
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FBI alerts public to spoofed IC3 site used in fraud schemes
The FBI warns that criminals are spoofing the IC3 site to steal personal data and commit fraud targeting cybercrime reporters. The FBI warned that attackers are spoofing the official Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website to steal personal data and commit financial fraud, targeting users who report cybercrimes. The fake websites mimic the real IC3 domain…
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Threat Actors Fake FBI IC3 Portal to Steal Visitor Information
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a critical public service announcement warning citizens about cybercriminals creating sophisticated spoofed versions of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website to harvest sensitive personal information from unsuspecting visitors. According to FBI Alert I-091925-PSA released on September 19, 2025, threat actors have been actively creating fraudulent websites…
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The Silent Threat: How Misconfigurations Fuel the Cyber Crime Economy
Billions of records are breached each year as a result of misconfigured servers, firewalls and other network devices. What can be done? Let’s explore. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/the-silent-threat-how-misconfigurations-fuel-the-cyber-crime-economy/