Search results

After tracking the ransomware in hot pursuit, the specialists managed to restore the entire chain of actions in the blockchain. Finnish law enforcement agencies managed to trace Monero transactions to identify the ransomware hacker, despite the anonymous features of the cryptocurrency. In...

Will the company pay a fabulous ransom for its customers data? The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), a key public transportation operator in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, has been hit by a massive cyberattack . The incident occurred on January 23 of this year. KCATA serves metro...

Scientists from China have brought the redefinition of seconds as a unit of time closer. Scientists from China have created a unique optical clock that is so accurate that the error in its course is only one second in 7 billion years. Described in the scientific journal Metrologia, the...

What does the company expect if its data becomes publicly available? The British company Lush, a well-known global manufacturer of cosmetics and bath bombs, was subjected to a cyber attack. Hacker group Akira claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it stole 110 GB of data, including...

The opening of a virtual brothel continues 20th-century fears for the sexual lives of citizens. In the city of Houston, USA, a virtual brothel Chub AI has opened, offering "sex services", including "meetings" with underage girls, which raises many legal and ethical questions. The Houston City...

The controversy surrounding file metadata identifiers has resonated in the developer community. Linus Torvalds, the creator and main developer of the Linux kernel, is known for his harsh communication style and criticism of other project participants. This week, a new conflict broke out over...

The rapper Punchmade Dev, well-known in cybercrime circles, is indeed involved in illegal activities, and he himself lives in a small city by American standards in the state of Kentucky. Well-known information security journalist Brian Krebs came to these conclusions after a short investigation...

A resident of Norilsk lost 5 million rubles - she trusted a friend who offered to invest in cryptocurrency, but in the end she appropriated the funds for herself. According to law enforcement agencies of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a 53-year-old resident of Norilsk, working in a gas production...

Employees of the Prilutsky district police department, together with operatives of the criminal investigation department of the GUNP in the Chernihiv region, under the procedural leadership of the Prilutsky district prosecutor's office, exposed a group of criminals who deceived dozens of...

Immerse yourself in a world where your privacy and individuality become a priority. Instagram is testing a new feature that provides users with an alternative to creating finst (fake accounts). The innovation is called "Flipside" and allows you to create a secondary photo gallery, accessible...

Ever wondered how you could have what is arguably the most flawless setup (high balance card, proper BIN, clean same city socks) imaginable on the cyberspace and still not get a good hit while carding something online? Ever wondered why Stripe keeps refusing your ‘high-balance’ card even for a...

Android starts analyzing private messages. Google has just unveiled a revolutionary artificial intelligence update for Android. But it also has a dark side. The upcoming update will allow Google's AI to analyze and read users ' private messages, returning to the very first ones. With the...

Employees of the Riga Ziemel Police Department, responding to a complaint about fraud, the victim of which lost 25,000 euros, detained a so-called “money mule” - a courier working for swindlers - in the Jugla microdistrict. The police found a large number of bank cards for third parties and more...

The investigative unit of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory has completed the investigation of a criminal case initiated against a 44-year-old visitor on the grounds of crimes provided for in Part 3...

The Prosecutor General's Office sent a criminal case to court against a resident of Minsk, who was charged with theft of property by modifying computer information on a large scale as part of an organized group. According to the case materials, the accused, as a minor, no later than March 2021...

In the United States, 19-year-old Florida resident Noah Michael Urban, known under the nicknames a/k/a “Sosa,” a/k/a “Elijah,” a/k, has been charged with electronic fraud and identity theft. /a “King Bob,” a/k/a “Anthony Ramirez. From August 2022 to March 2023, the young man stole money from...

Employees of the Department for Combating Cybercrime of the Brest Region Internal Affairs Directorate identified a 24-year-old resident of the regional center who was involved in illegal cryptocurrency trafficking. Investigators found out that the defendant made transactions on specialized...

The expression “Cherry-Picking”, that is, “picking cherries” corresponds to our “skimming the cream” and means taking the best for yourself, and one smart person on the mail.ru website explained that in business it is “to occupy an empty niche for which there will be demand , and in the...

A resident of Blagoveshchensk fell for the tricks of cryptocurrency scammers - she transferred 4 million rubles to an “investment account”, and when she realized that she had been deceived, she lost another 40 million rubles. Now employees of the Blagoveshchenskoye Municipal Administration of...

Finnish news channel MTV Uutiset reported that the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) was able to trace transactions using the confidential cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). Journalists from the MTV Crime Reporters section of the MTV Uutiset channel reported, citing a statement by...