Category: Cyber crime

Russian hackers used a popular file-sharing system as a vector to spread malware to the networks of multiple Ukrainian government agencies.

Three North Korean hackers were indicted for carrying out a wide range of cyber crimes and stealing more than $1.3 billion in cryptocurrency.

ANSSI has revealed how GRU-linked Sandworm targeted an IT monitoring software provided by Cetreon to infect a large number of IT companies.

Eight cyber criminals were arrested in the UK last week for targeting thousands of people in the US with sim swapping attacks.

A European fraud ring used a number of shell companies set up in the U.S. to defraud over 50 U.S. banks out of more than £10 million.

Li Chen got thirty months for stealing trade secrets associated with Exosomes research from Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute.

Hackers laced the update mechanism of NoxPlayer with various malware strains, exposing over 100,000 online gamers to covert surveillance.

A Canadian national has been indicted in the U.S. for using the NetWalker ransomware to target organisations worldwide and earning millions.

A major law enforcement operation spanning Europe and North America has succeeded in taking down the Emotet infrastructure.

SEPA has confirmed that hackers behind the cyber attack on Christmas Eve published 4,000 of its internal files online after it refused to pay a ransom.

DarkMarket, the world’s largest Dark Web marketplace, was taken down following coordinated action by law enforcement authorities.

Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin has been sentenced to twelve years in prison in the United States and ordered to forfeit over $19 million after pleading guilty to hacking JP Morgan Chase bank in 2015