The City of London Police had put the teenage boy in the suburban Travelodge to protect him. They even set up a code with him and his mom to signal it was safe to open the door: “Lucky lucky.”
Then they grew suspicious.
The teen had a history with the police. It was September 2022, and 17-year-old Arion Kurtaj had been arrested twice earlier that year for his alleged role in a hacking group that stole data and demanded ransoms from some of the world’s biggest tech companies. Kurtaj, who is autistic, was released both times. The second time, that March, he had been let go under the condition that he stay offline.
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Eight individuals have been arrested as part of an ongoing international crackdown on cybercrime, dealing a major blow to criminal operations in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria.
The arrests were made as part of INTERPOL’s Operation Contender 2.0, an initiative aimed at combating cyber-enabled crimes, primarily in West Africa, through enhanced international intelligence sharing.
Phishing scam targets Swiss citizens
In Côte d’Ivoire authorities dismantled a large-scale phishing scam, thanks to a collaborative effort with Swiss police and INTERPOL.
Organizations that get relieved of credentials to their cloud environments can quickly find themselves part of a disturbing new trend: Cybercriminals using stolen cloud credentials to operate and resell sexualized AI-powered chat services. Researchers say these illicit chat bots, which…
The simultaneous actions targeted the Star Blizzard espionage operation, which targeted government and civil society around the world.
Sixteen individuals who were part of Evil Corp, once believed to be the most significant cybercrime threat in the world, have been sanctioned in the UK, with their links to the Russian state and other prolific ransomware groups, including LockBit, exposed.
Sanctions have also been imposed by Australia and the US, who have unsealed an indictment against a key member of the group.
Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang, and tried to use his hacking skills to get off the grid for good.
AT&T and Verizon are among the broadband providers that were breached
Not a great look when the iGiant just launched its first password manager
WordPress plugins are under active attack, a new banking trojan is spreading, and phishing and brute-force attacks continue unabated.
Intruders accessed machines via tool bundled with ScienceLogic, 'limited' info taken, customers told not to worry
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The national Dutch police (Politie) says that a state actor was likely behind the data breach it detected last week.
Digital analytics tools are useful, but can also be used for malicious purposes. Digital analytics tools are vital components of the vast domain that is modern cyberspace. From system administrators managing traffic load balancers to marketers and advertisers working to deliver relevant content to their brand’s biggest fan base, tools like link shorteners, location trackers, CAPTCHAs, and digital advertising platforms each play their part in making information universally accessible and useful to all.
Explore the emergence of Gorilla Botnet, its DDoS tactics, global impact, and sophisticated evasion techniques.
Web performance and security firm Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack.
According to Matthew Prince, the company’s CEO, the attack peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and 2.14 billion packets per second (Pps). The attack was aimed at an unidentified customer of an unnamed hosting provider that uses Cloudflare services.
FBI investigating call in which AI appearing to be Dmytro Kuleba asked Ben Cardin ‘politically charged questions’
Stay updated on the latest PHP vulnerability advisory. Learn about the potential log tampering, file inclusion, and data integrity violations.
The difficult part of the initial response to a human-operated ransomware attack is identifying the attack vector. You may already know from recent security incident trends that the vulnerabilities of VPN devices are likely to be exploited, but it often...
