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A former employee of network technology provider Ubiquiti pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges after posing as an anonymous hacker in an attempt to extort almost $2 million worth of cryptocurrency while employed at the company. From a report: Nick… Continue reading Former Ubiquiti Employee Pleads Guilty To Attempted Extortion Scheme
In the past year, a new term has arisen to describe an online scam raking in millions, if not billions, of dollars per year. It’s called “pig butchering,” and now even Apple is getting fooled into participating. From a report: Researchers from security… Continue reading ‘Pig-Butchering’ Scam Apps Sneak Into Apple’s App Store and Google Play
Chainalysis reports that worldwide ransomware payments were down in 2022.
Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 million the year before.
As always, we have to caveat these findings by noting that the true totals are much higher, as there are cryptocurrency addresses controlled by ransomware attackers that have yet to be identified on the blockchain and incorporated into our data. When we published last year’s version of this report, for example, we had only identified $602 million in ransomware payments in 2021…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Aerospace giant Boeing entered a plea of not guilty to a criminal charge at an arraignment in federal court in Texas Thursday. The company is charged with felony fraud related to the crashes of two of its 7… Continue reading Boeing Pleads Not Guilty To Fraud In Criminal Case Over Deadly 737 Max Crashes
Department of Justice: A complaint was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn charging Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national and senior executive of Bitzlato Ltd. (Bitzlato), a Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange, with conducting … Continue reading Founder and Majority Owner of Bitzlato, a Cryptocurrency Exchange, Charged with Unlicensed Money Transmitting
Downing Street has said it is considering a Tory-backed amendment to the online safety bill that would allow for the imposing of jail sentences on social media bosses who are found not to have protected children’s safety. The Guardian reports: No 10 sa… Continue reading UK Could Jail Social Media Bosses Who Breach Child Safety Rules
On this episode of Cyber, we’re talking about digital license plates, criminal phone empires, and deepfaked customer service conversations. Continue reading CYBER: Hacking Digital License Plates
The brother of a former Coinbase product manager was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty in what U.S. prosecutors have called the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency. Reuters reports: Nikhil Wahi admitted t… Continue reading The First Insider Trading Case Involving Cryptocurrency
Saturday night in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose, the assistant police chief tweeted out praise for their recently-upgraded Automatic License Plate Readers:
Officers in Air3 [police helicopter], monitoring the ALPR system, got alerted to 3 stolen… Continue reading San Jose Police Announce Three Stolen Vehicles Recovered Using Automatic License Plate Reader
Something odd is afoot in the mountains around Salt Lake City, Utah, at least according to local media reports of remote radio installations that have been popping up for at …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 8, 2023