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The police, together with the SBU and the Prosecutor's Office, searched the office premises of an underground call center located in one of the shopping centers in Kremenchuk, and seized computer equipment. It is established that the "operators" collected confidential information to gain access...

A 42-year-old resident of Zhodino was contacted by an expert trader on her mobile phone and told about a unique project that helps earn money at auctions. The woman believed the swindler, invested in a "unique project" and lost over Br50 thousand. The official representative of the USC for the...

The victim believed, followed all his instructions and, as a result, lost money. She went to the police when she realized that she was a victim of fraudsters. As employees of the police department No. 4 in Zalishchiki established, a foreigner who introduced himself as a military man from Syria...

Scammers, to deceive a rich heir in Yakutia, created a phishing site — on November 2, the Yakutsk police accepted a statement from a 39-year-old man about stealing 13,391,000 rubles from him. It should be noted that the applicant went to the police at the insistence of a close relative who was...

Group-IB researchers are shedding light on the underground industry under the Farnetwork (or Nokoyawa) brand, which has been linked to five ransomware gangs. An attacker specializing in RaaS has accumulated extensive experience over the years in the field of ransomware and has entered into a...

A new set of malicious Python packages, whose authors want to steal confidential information from software developers devices, has entered the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. The malware was combined under the common name BlazeStealer. According to Checkmarx experts who discovered the...

Positive Technologies experts analyzed current cybersecurity threats in the third quarter of 2023. They revealed that attackers are complicating social engineering tactics and using new fraudulent schemes to deceive users. According to the study, this is the main threat to individuals (92%) and...

Kazakhstan's law enforcement agencies have opened criminal cases against the heads of structural divisions of the Eolus pyramid scheme in 10 regions of the country. This is reported by the local Financial Monitoring Agency. According to the investigation, the company attracted clients under the...

The UK police will return the confiscated 2.37 million pounds to the victims of crypto fraud who invested in the fake IOTA project. The assets were seized with the participation of the Kraken crypto exchange. At the beginning of the year, the Organized Crime Unit of the South-Eastern Region of...

The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has completed the investigation of a criminal case on charges of a 24-year-old local resident in unauthorized access to legally protected computer information, which resulted in the...

In less than a week, three residents of Soligorsk - an electrical mechanic, an accountant and an unemployed city dweller - joined the ranks of victims of cybercrime, losing large sums of money. This was reported in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee...

Carl Sebastian Greenwood, co-founder of one of the largest cryptocurrency pyramids OneCoin, pleaded guilty to several counts of fraud and money laundering. He faces up to 60 years in prison. The US Department of Justice has announced that Carl Sebastian Greenwood has pleaded guilty in a...

Bank of America refused to return money stolen from a resident of the country, which was withdrawn by another person at an ATM. At the same time, as ABC 7 writes, the financial organization sent the victim screenshots of the recording on which the criminal is visible, and stated that he himself...

A resident of the Volgograd region is accused of eight counts of fraud committed with and against a popular marketplace. A 48-year-old resident of the city of Novoanninsk made purchases for unsuspecting residents of foreign countries. In the case were involved in including familiar men. To prove...

For more than three years, the US FBI and the Australian Federal Police operated an encrypted messaging platform to intercept the correspondence of members of criminal groups around the world. On Monday, June 7, as part of Operation Ironside, law enforcement officers in Australia, Europe and...

In the United States, they calculated the damage caused by the cybercrime industry to various states. This was done by VPNpro analysts after reviewing the report of the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) for 2022. Alabama, New York and Massachusetts were named the leaders. In Alabama...

In the suburbs of Chicago (Illinois), the victim of fraudsters was 85-year-old clergyman Robert Banzin (Robert Banzin). According to local media, he fell for the bait because of the phishing site PayPal. It all started with an email that the reverend received, he believes, from PayPal. At the...

On November 10, an unknown attacker attacked the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. According to preliminary data from Arkham Intelligence, total losses exceeded $124.5 million in digital assets. Around 14:00 (UTC+3), PeckShield analysts alerted the platform and its CEO, Justin Sun, to...

The Raft DeFi platform lost about $3.3 million in Ethereum as a result of the hack. But the attack probably brought only losses to the attacker, experts found. An analyst under the nickname 0xngmi noted that the hacker removed a total of 1,577 ETH (~$3.3 million) from the protocol. However, he...

On November 12, an attacker hacked a crypto wallet totaling about $27 million in the USDT stablecoin. This was stated by on-chain detective ZachXBT. The attacked user received USDT after withdrawing from Binance about a week ago. As ZachXBT noted, the wallet also interacted with the exchange's...