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Mirai Masterminds Helping FBI Snuff Out Cybercrime
2018-09-19 17:11

The three hackers behind the infamous Mirai botnet have been helping law enforcement take down cybercriminals across the globe.

Cybercrime: 15 Top Threats and Trends
2018-09-19 16:33

Europol's Internet Threat Report Finds That Older Crimes Remain Alive and WellCriminals operating online continue to target cryptocurrencies, leverage phishing and other social engineering...

Mirai Botnet Creators Helping FBI Fight Cybercrime to Stay Out of Jail
2018-09-19 14:18

Three young hackers who were sentenced late last year for creating and spreading the notorious Mirai botnet are now helping the FBI to investigate other "complex" cybercrime cases in return to...

Why Cybercrime Remains Impossible to Eradicate
2018-09-17 10:48

Kelihos Bot Herder Offered Bargain Spam Campaign PricingMore evidence that running cybercrime schemes remains inexpensive and accessible to anyone with criminal intent: To send spam emails,...

RiskIQ: British Airways Breach Ties to Cybercrime Group
2018-09-11 16:33

Magecart Gang Tweaked Script on BA's Server to Scrape Card Data, Researchers SayThe British Airways breach, in which up to 380,000 website and mobile users' payment card details were stolen,...

Scrappy 'Silence' Cybercrime Gang Refines Its Bank Attacks
2018-09-05 13:18

Two-Person Gang Is Picking Up After Decline in Cobalt Attacks, Researchers WarnA cybercrime gang called "Silence," which appears to have just two members, has been tied to attacks that have so far...

Silence! Cybercrime's Pinky and the Brain have nicked $800k off banks
2018-09-05 11:47

One does dev, the other ops, and they're believed to be former white hats A pair of cybercrooks who may have started out as legit infosec pros have expanded their operations outside Russia and...

Back to school soon – for script kiddies as well as normal kids. Hackers peddle cybercrime e-classes via Telegram
2018-08-24 06:29

Bitcoin rather than student loan required for fraud classes Crooks are now taking to encrypted messenger Telegram to tout their online how-to courses on cybercrime, according to risk management...

ThreatList: $1.1M is Lost to Cybercrime Every Minute of Every Day
2018-08-23 20:55

Every minute, there are also 5,518 records leaked from publicly disclosed incidents.

Disrupting the Economics of Cybercrime
2018-08-22 16:47

How the Industry of Cybercrime WorksCybercrime is a business and, like any business, it's driven by profit. But how can organizations make credential theft less profitable at every stage of the...