March 2024 - Page 7 of 13

US moves to recover $2.3 million from “pig butchers” on Binance

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is recovering $2.3 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to a “pig butchering” fraud scheme that victimized at least 37 people across the United States. […]

15 Mar

PornHub now also blocks Texas over age verification laws

PornHub has now added Texas to its blocklist, preventing users in the state from accessing its site in protest of age verification laws. […]

15 Mar

Microsoft announces Office LTSC 2024 preview starting next month

Microsoft announced that Office LTSC 2024, the next Office LTSC release, will enter a commercial preview phase starting next month and will be generally available later this year. […]

15 Mar

Admin of major stolen account marketplace gets 42 months in prison

Moldovan national Sandu Boris Diaconu has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for operating E-Root, a major online marketplace that sold access to hacked computers worldwide. […]

15 Mar

Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1,000

A former manager at a telecommunications company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for accepting money to perform unauthorized SIM swaps that enabled an accomplice to hack customer accounts. […]

15 Mar

McDonald’s IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

McDonald’s restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day. […]

14 Mar

StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware evolves to evade detection

A new variant of StopCrypt ransomware (aka STOP) was spotted in the wild, employing a multi-stage execution process that involves shellcodes to evade security tools. […]

14 Mar

StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware now evades detection

A new variant of StopCrypt ransomware (aka STOP) was spotted in the wild, employing a multi-stage execution process that involves shellcodes to evade security tools. […]

14 Mar

SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks

SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target’s phone number by porting it into a new eSIM card, a digital SIM stored in a rewritable chip present on many recent smartphone models. […]

14 Mar

Tech support firms Restoro, Reimage fined $26 million for scare tactics

Tech support companies Restoro and Reimage will pay $26 million to settle charges that they used scare tactics to trick their customers into paying for unnecessary computer repair services. […]

Month: March 2024

US moves to recover $2.3 million from “pig butchers” on Binance

PornHub now also blocks Texas over age verification laws

Microsoft announces Office LTSC 2024 preview starting next month

Admin of major stolen account marketplace gets 42 months in prison

Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1,000

McDonald’s IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware evolves to evade detection

StopCrypt: Most widely distributed ransomware now evades detection

SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks

Tech support firms Restoro, Reimage fined $26 million for scare tactics