Collaborate Disseminate
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department over his alleged role in one of the largest U.S. government breaches of classified material. As a result, he will avoid imprisonment in the United States. CNN r… Continue reading Julian Assange Reaches Plea Deal With US, Allowing Him To Go Free
Firstly, this is purely hypothetical and has not happened to me.
So let’s say that a friend wrote me down a URL he said I should visit, so I type the URL into my address bar but accidentally type a ‘ instead of a ” in a GET parameter, and … Continue reading Is accidental “hacking” illegal? [closed]
Lin Qi, chairman of China’s Yoozoo Group and executive producer on Netflix’s “The Three-Body Problem,” is currently hospitalized in Shanghai following a suspected deliberate poisoning by colleague Xu Yao, who has been detained by police. Despite intern… Continue reading Chinese Producer of Netflix’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Is Poisoned in Suspected Murder Attempt
The Ukraine cyber police, supported by information from the Dutch police, arrested a 28-year-old Russian man in Kyiv for aiding Conti and LockBit ransomware operations by making their malware undetectable and conducting at least one attack himself. He … Continue reading Police Arrest Conti and LockBit Ransomware Crypter Specialist
British police have arrested two individuals involved in an SMS-based phishing campaign using a unique device police described as a “homemade mobile antenna,” “an illegitimate telephone mast,” and a “text message blaster.” This first-of-its-kind device… Continue reading British Duo Arrested For SMS Phishing Via Homemade Cell Tower
Wired visits Chula Vista, California (population: 275,487) — where since 2018 drones have been dispatched by police “teleoperators” monitoring 911 calls. (“Noise complaints, car accidents, overdoses, domestic disputes…”) After nearly 20,000 dro… Continue reading Should Police Departments Use Drones?
“Researchers observed a new Linux variant of the TargetCompany ransomware family that targets VMware ESXi environments,” reports BleepingComputer:
In a report Wednesday, cybersecurity company Trend Micro says that the new Linux variant for TargetCompa… Continue reading New Linux Version of Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi
A worker at a retail store in an airport has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars in electronics and clothing, reports the Washington Post. But what’s more interesting is what led to his arrest…
A woman showed up at his home looking for … Continue reading Apple Watch Leads to Luggage Stolen By an Airport Store Worker
Retailers are struggling to rein in the proliferation of scammers tricking Americans into buying thousands of dollars’ worth of gift cards. From a report: The Federal Trade Commission estimates that Americans lost at least $217 million to gift card sca… Continue reading Retailers Can’t Keep Scammers Away From Their Favorite Payment Form: Gift Cards
The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet:
According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide. These devices were associated with more than 19 million unique IP addresses, including 613,841 IP addresses located in the United States. Wang then generated millions of dollars by offering cybercriminals access to these infected IP addresses for a fee…
Continue reading The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet