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In a new scheme of deception, companies voluntarily give data to criminals. The FBI has issued a warning to US companies about a new scheme of scammers who use Emergency Data Requests to steal personal information. Using hacked email addresses of government agencies, fraudsters demand that...

Ordinary smartphones allowed the FBI to hack the criminal world from the inside. Journalist Joseph Cox spoke about the FBI's largest covert operation involving the use of encrypted telephone networks to track criminal activity. In 2018, Anom, a secure communication platform, appeared on the...

25-year-old Eric Councill Jr. of Athens, Alabama, was arrested this morning in Athens in connection with the unauthorized takeover of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) X account in January 2024, formerly known as Twitter, in which hackers posted a fake message from the SEC chairman...

Investigators showed ingenuity to uncover a scam worth millions of dollars. On Wednesday, US law enforcement officers released the results of the operation to catch cryptocurrency scammers. An investigation conducted by the FBI revealed a sophisticated scheme for manipulating the prices of...

The head of the Zort crypto trading platform, Adam Isa, paid three employees of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) $280,000 per month for illegally issuing search warrants and accessing police data. This is stated in the FBI indictment. Admitting that Iza paid $280,000 a month to...

Authorities have confiscated more than $6 million worth of cryptocurrency from wallets linked to Southeast Asian scammers targeting U.S. citizens through trust investment schemes. On September 26, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia reported that "one or more people" had...

$10 million for the head of a criminal who earned up to $1 billion on stolen cards. The US Department of Justice has brought charges against Timur Shakhmametov in connection with the work of the now-defunct Joker's Stash carder forum. The defendant (using the nicknames "JokerStash" and "Vega")...

Local authorities urgently transferred the management of the enterprise to manual mode. A cyberattack was recently recorded at a water treatment plant in Arkansas City, Kansas, which forced local authorities to switch the control of the plant to manual mode. The incident occurred on the morning...

Hackers who stole millions were caught in luxury. This week, two suspects were arrested in Miami accused of conspiracy to steal and launder more than $230 million in cryptocurrency using cryptocurrency exchanges and mixing services. We are talking about 20-year-old Malone Lam, known by the...

The Offices' proposal is designed to improve the security of new versions of programs. CISA and the FBI have called on technology companies to review their software to prevent the presence of XSS vulnerabilities in future releases. Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities remain a problem for many...

Legitimate business or a cover for state cyberattacks? U.S. authorities have brought serious charges against a major Chinese cybersecurity company. Integrity Technology Group (also known as Yongxin Zhicheng), which is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, has been at the center of an...

Special agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in San Diego have shut down websites belonging to three fake services that offered victims of crypto fraud services to recover stolen funds. The blocked websites belonged to MyChargeBack, Payback and Claim Justice, the FBI said. The...

Law enforcement officers stopped another attempt to interfere in the US elections. The FBI confiscated 32 domains that were used by the Doppelgänger influence network in a disinformation campaign aimed at American audiences in the run-up to the upcoming presidential election. The seized...

Crypto projects are losing millions due to North Korea's social engineering. In its new warning, the FBI states that employees of DeFi companies and cryptocurrency projects have recently been attacked by North Korea. Hackers from the DPRK use sophisticated social engineering techniques to...

One book changed the fate of a participant in the storming of the Capitol. The FBI has collected evidence against a suspect in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. His own book published on Amazon is used as evidence. The book helped to establish Thornsberry's motives and confirmed...

Where do the data carriers actually end up after seizure? The U.S. Department of Justice has identified serious deficiencies in the management and destruction of the FBI's electronic media containing both sensitive and classified data. The report identified numerous problems with the FBI's...

In October, hacker Jesse Kipf was arrested, accused of breaching the cybersecurity of several commercial companies and US health care systems. According to researchers, Kipf forged his death certificate to avoid punishment. Initially, Kipf hacked into the networks of Guest-Tek Interactive...

Hackers servers in the US, UK and Germany were confiscated. The FBI eliminated servers and sites associated with the activities of the RADAR/DISPOSESSOR ransomware group. The operation was carried out jointly with partners from the UK and Germany. As a result, law enforcement agencies...

The investigation into the attempted murder of the former US president continues. The FBI announced on Monday that it had obtained access to the phone of Thomas Matthew Crookes, a suspect in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. As part of the ongoing investigation, the...

A 22-year-old Briton was arrested in Palma de Mallorca in a joint effort between Spanish police and the FBI on suspicion of being the ringleader of a hacking group that targeted 45 companies and individuals in the United States. The man was arrested at Palma Airport as he was preparing to board...