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Criminal IP and Maltego Join Forces for Enhanced Cyber Threat Search
2024-08-12 14:02

Criminal IP, a rapidly growing Cyber Threat Intelligence search engine developed by AI SPERA, recently completed its technology integration with Maltego, a global all-in-one investigation platform that specializes in visualized analysis of combined cyber data. This partnership embeds Criminal IP's extensive database on malicious IPs, domains, and CVEs into Maltego's unified user interface and adds Criminal IP to Maltego's marketplace, Transform Hub.

Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency
2024-07-18 15:33

A group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St. Felix focused largely on a single theft of cryptocurrency from an elderly North Carolina couple, whose home St. Felix and one of his accomplices broke into before physically assaulting the two victims-­both in their seventies-­and forcing them to transfer more than $150,000 in Bitcoin and Ether to the thieves' crypto wallets.

Europol says Home Routing mobile encryption feature aids criminals
2024-07-07 15:23

Europol is proposing solutions to avoid challenges posed by privacy-enhancing technologies in Home Routing that hinder law enforcement's ability to intercept communications during criminal investigations. Home Routing is a system in telecommunication services that allows customers to route traffic through their home network even when traveling abroad. When privacy-enhancing technologies are enabled in Home Routing, data is encrypted at the service level and subscribers' devices exchange session-based keys with the provider in the home network.

CISA warns of criminals impersonating its employees in phone calls
2024-06-12 17:58

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that criminals are impersonating its employees in phone calls and attempting to deceive potential victims into transferring money. Those who suspect they're on the receiving end of a scam phone call where a criminal claims to be a CISA employee should never give in to their demands to send money, write down their phone number, and immediately hang up.

US Treasury says NFTs 'highly susceptible' to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals
2024-05-30 21:47

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Auction house Christie’s confirms criminals stole some client data
2024-05-28 13:30

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Cyber Criminals Exploit GitHub and FileZilla to Deliver Malware Cocktail
2024-05-20 09:26

A "multi-faceted campaign" has been observed abusing legitimate services like GitHub and FileZilla to deliver an array of stealer malware and banking trojans such as Atomic (aka AMOS), Vidar,...

FBI Seizes BreachForums Again, Urges Users to Report Criminal Activity
2024-05-15 17:52

Law enforcement agencies have officially seized control of the notorious BreachForums platform, an online bazaar known for peddling stolen data, for the second time within a year. The website...

How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
2024-05-09 16:05

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Bitcoin Forensic Analysis Uncovers Money Laundering Clusters and Criminal Proceeds
2024-05-01 14:25

A forensic analysis of a graph dataset containing transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has revealed clusters associated with illicit activity and money laundering, including detecting criminal...