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"Governments may argue that the treaty leaves room to refuse requests for mutual legal assistance where there are substantial grounds to believe that the request has been made to prosecute or punish a person based on their sex, race, language, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, or political opinions," warned Human Rights Watch. British defence supplier Rolls-Royce Submarines has admitted that its staff intranet software was built by Russian and Belarusian coders - posing something of a security challenge.
Ransomware attacks have reached new heights of ambition and audacity over the past year, marked by a notable surge in extortion attacks, according to a Zscaler. The findings from the report uncovered a record-breaking ransom payment of $75 million to the Dark Angels ransomware group, which is nearly double the highest publicly known ransomware payout, and an overall 18% increase in ransomware attacks year-over-year.
A Spanish-speaking cybercrime group named GXC Team has been observed bundling phishing kits with malicious Android applications, taking malware-as-a-service offerings to the next level. The phishing kit is priced anywhere between $150 and $900 a month, whereas the bundle including the phishing kit and Android malware is available on a subscription basis for about $500 per month.
The relationship between various TDSs and DNS associated with Vigorish Viper and the final landing experience for the user A Chinese organized crime syndicate with links to money laundering and...
Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall who is suspected to be a member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime syndicate. The teen's arrest, carried out in coordination with the U.K. National Crime Agency and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, comes a little over a month after another 22-year-old member of the e-crime syndicate from the U.K. was apprehended in Spain.
The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups. Scattered Spider - which hit Las Vegas casinos last year among many other victims, and is tracked as Octo Tempest by Microsoft, or the gazillion other aliases it has depending on who's doing the talking - accounts for "a significant bulk of investigations."
The seemingly legitimate online marketplace Huione Guarantee is being used as a platform for laundering money from online scams, especially "Pig butchering" investment fraud, researchers say. According to a report from Elliptic blockchain analytics firm, the merchants on Huine Guarantee have made transactions of at least $11 billion of transactions, some of them linked to various types of cybercrime, including creating websites for investment fraud, personal data sales, and money laundering.
Cryptocurrency analysts have shed light on an online marketplace called HuiOne Guarantee that's widely used by cybercriminals in Southeast Asia, particularly those linked to pig butchering scams. The British blockchain analytics firm said that the marketplace is part of HuiOne Group, a Cambodian conglomerate with links to Cambodia's ruling Hun family and that another HuiOne business, HuiOne International Payments, is actively involved in laundering scam proceeds globally.
A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal groups and were part of an attack infrastructure associated with the...
Four Vietnamese nationals with ties to the FIN9 cybercrime group have been indicted in the U.S. for their involvement in a series of computer intrusions that caused over $71 million in losses to...