Month: September 2021

In collaboration with Europol and Eurojust, European law enforcement dismantled an extensive network of cybercriminals linked to the Italian Mafia that was able to defraud their victims of roughly €10 million ($11.7 million) last year alone. […]

A new Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency giveaway scam called the “Elon Musk Mutual Aid Fund” or “Elon Musk Club” is being promoted through spam email campaigns that started over the past few weeks. […]

A Pakistani fraudster was sentenced earlier this week to 12 years in prison after AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company, lost over $200 million after he and his co-conspirators coordinated a seven year scheme that led to the fraudulent unlocking of almost 2 million phones. […]

Security researchers are working on compiling an easy to follow list of initial access attack vectors ransomware gangs and their affiliates are using to breach victims’ networks. […]

It has been an interesting week with decryptors released, ransomware gangs continuing to rail against negotiators, and the US government expected to sanction crypto exchanges next week. […]

At the end of a nine-day trial, a jury in California this week found guilty the administrator of two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations. […]