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Authorities in South Korea have filed charges against employees at a computer repair store.
What are the nine charged employees of the company alleged to have done? Created and installed ransomware onto the computers of their customers, netting mor… Continue reading Repairmen suspected of installing ransomware on customers’ PCs. Arrests in South Korea
Received a replacement Ledger cryptocurrency wallet through the post following the service’s data breach? Be on your guard…
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Fake Ledger devices mailed out in attempt to steal from cryptocurrency fans
Six people alleged to be part of the notorious CLOP ransomware gang have been detained and charged by Ukrainian police, following nearly two dozen raids across the country.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading CLOP ransomware suspects charged by police in Ukraine
Six people alleged to be part of the notorious CLOP ransomware gang have been detained and charged by Ukrainian police, following nearly two dozen raids across the country. According to a statement released by the Ukraine’s cyber police, the hacking gr… Continue reading CLOP ransomware suspects charged by police in Ukraine
Video gaming giant Electronic Arts suffers a hack following slack security, the Japanese Olympics are proving unpopular with everyone apart from cybercriminals, and le coq est mort.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the aw… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #232: Zoomolympics and language matters
The head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has warned that ransomware has become the biggest threat to British people and businesses. And says ransomware gangs “are often enabled and facilitated by states acting with impunity.”
Read more i… Continue reading Ransomware is the biggest threat, says GCHQ cybersecurity chief
The US Congress may have a beef with the firm which paid a ransom totalling $11 million to a gang of cybercriminals. Continue reading Meat supplier JBS probed after paying $11 million ransom to attackers
Criminals are caught in a encrypted chat trap, should you trust Apple’s repair team with your sexy snaps, and do you think the FBI should be able to tell who has been reading the USA Today website? All this and much more is discussed in the lates… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #231: Sexy snaps and encrypted chat traps
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has revealed that it was able to decrypt and snoop on the private messages sent via a supposedly secure messaging app used by criminals… because the app was actually the brainchild of the FBI.
Read more in my arti… Continue reading Criminal networks smashed after using “secure” chat app secretly run by cops
Cybercriminals are running an online competition offering big prizes to anyone who believes they have found an unusual way to help crooks steal cryptocurrency.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Cryptocurrency hacks wanted – $100,000 prize fund offered in contest run by cybercrime forum