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Operatives of the Department for Combating Cybercrime of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk region, in cooperation with colleagues from the Novosibirsk region, stopped the activities of an interregional webcam studio that distributed pornographic...

Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, as a result of a complex of operational search measures, went on the trail and detained three citizens involved in the deception of a 56-year-old resident of the Leningrad...

Once a year, pentesters have a chance to loudly announce their achievements and show their contribution to the development of the Russian information security market. Pentest award announced the collection of applications. The award for pentesters is held to recognize the merits of specialists...

Chinese police have identified an underground banking scheme that used digital assets to illegally exchange yuan and South Korean won worth $295.8 million. Local media reported the arrest of six suspects in Jilin Province (Jilin) in the north-east of the country. Many bank cards and other...

In the Republic of Tatarstan, officers of the criminal investigation department together with the district commissioners of the Police Department No. 15 "Tankodrom" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Kazan identified and detained a 20-year-old local resident suspected of a series...

Employees of the Department for Combating the Illegal Use of Information and Telecommunications Technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Vologda region stopped the activities of a group that specialized in cyber fraud. "According to investigators, in 2022 and 2023...

Employees of the UBK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia together with their Saratov colleagues detained two local residents. They are suspected of multi-million dollar fraud. "It was previously established that the attackers discovered a software vulnerability in the system of the...

The rules are now more strict, especially in the field of facial recognition. Microsoft has tightened the rules for using its Azure OpenAI Service, banning US police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition. Changes to the terms of service introduced on Wednesday now...

Privacy or public safety – what is more important in the era of digitalization? European police agencies have expressed concern that increased privacy measures, such as the use of "end-to-end encryption" (E2EE), could seriously limit the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate...

Employees of the UBK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region detained a visitor from Penza. He is suspected of fraud committed using Internet technologies. "It was previously established that the attacker had been engaged in illegal activities...

The police seized $12 million from Raj Kundra, the husband of the famous local actress Shilpa Shetty, suspecting him of involvement in the fraudulent crypto scheme Gain Bitcoin, which lured investors out of $800 million. While investigating the Gain Bitcoin case, investigators identified...

Employees of the Regional Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tver region and operatives of the criminal investigation department detained seven members of an organized group. Local college students between the ages of 19 and 21 are suspected of committing a series of...

Hong Kong law enforcement authorities have detained a popular crypto-influencer in the Chinese sector in the case of fraud on the JPEX exchange. Unicoin employee and popular crypto blogger Xiang Xiang Unicoin, who is called a "resident analyst of Unicoin" on social networks, is suspected of...

Employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo district of Moscow detained three men suspected of stealing things from the pick-up point. It is established that malefactors, working in one of the points of delivery...

In January of this year, the police received a statement from a resident of Barnaul that unknown persons illegally gained access to her personal account on the portal "Gosuslugi", which led to modification of information protected by law. A criminal case was opened on this fact under part 2 of...

Employees of the interdistrict department No. 5 of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Udmurt Republic as a result of operational search activities detained a 34-year-old resident of Izhevsk, suspected of fraud using the Internet. Police officers...

Protecting your personal data is becoming increasingly difficult. In Rostov-on-Don and Sochi there were detentions of persons suspected of stealing a database with personal information of employees of one of the leading IT companies. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal...

As a result of operational search activities, police officers detained a criminal group consisting of four previously convicted residents of the city of Lodeynoye Pole, Leningrad Region, aged from 31 to 34 years, who are suspected of a series of remote fraud. It is established that the...

Having promised quick earnings and using citizens for their illegal purposes, telephone scammers call the police on duty and transmit information about their accomplices. Such a case was registered in the Irkutsk region. The woman who called the helpline number called herself a fraudster and...

An interesting feature of the chatbot caused concern for the truthfulness of the information. The Grok chatbot was at the center of the X social network scandal, generating news based on humorous messages and presenting them as reliable information. One user discovered material written by an...