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Curiosity gives crims access to wallets and passwords Organizations should be on the lookout for bogus copyright infringement emails as they might be the latest ploy by cybercriminals to steal their data.…
An ongoing phishing campaign is employing copyright infringement-related themes to trick victims into downloading a newer version of the Rhadamanthys information stealer since July 2024....
Two Russian nationals accused of operating Z-Library - one of the largest online book piracy websites - have been charged with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering. Around the same time, the Feds also took down Z-Library's network of nearly 250 domains and seized its assets - much to the dismay of students everywhere who used the site to access textbooks and academic journals without paying the hefty price tags charged by academic publishers.
A ruling handed down from the Delhi High Court this week declared that Telegram must hand over information such as IP addresses, mobile numbers, and devices used by channels on the platform involved in copyright infringement. On behalf of Telegram, the platform's senior counsel, Amit Sibal, said that the arrangement already in place directing Telegram to take down the infringing channels was "Sufficient to protect the interest of the plaintiffs."
Website owners are being targeted with fake copyright infringement complaints that utilize Yandex Forms to distribute the IcedID banking malware. These reports allegedly contain proof of DDoS attacks or copyrighted material used without permission but instead infect a target's device with various malware, including BazarLoader, BumbleBee, and IcedID. Switching to Yandex forms.
LockBit ransomware affiliates are using an interesting trick to get people into infecting their devices by disguising their malware as copyright claims. The recipients of these emails are warned about a copyright violation, allegedly having used media files without the creator's license.
DS Store' files generated by macOS file systems as a violation of its copyright infringement policy. DS Store" file on their Google Drive being flagged for violating Google's 'Copyright Infringement' policy.
Users were left startled as Google Drive's automated detection systems flagged a nearly empty file for copyright infringement. One of the files in Dolson's Google Drive, 'output04.
At the same time, you'll also know how easy it is to get accused of copyright wrongdoing yourself, even if you're always careful only to use third-party material in accordance with the original creator's licensing guidelines. Because of the frequent argy-bargy that surrounds online copyright issues, social networks have established formal procedures for making complaints and appealing against takedowns.
It's a matter of going after those with deep pockets. Cloudflare was sued in November 2018 by Mon Cheri Bridals and Maggie Sottero Designs, two wedding dress manufacturers and sellers that alleged Cloudflare was guilty of contributory copyright infringement because it didn't terminate services for websites that infringed on the dressmakers' copyrighted designs.