April 21, 2025
Cyber crime syndicates that run multi-billion-dollar scam operations across Southeast Asia are still expanding despite recent law enforcement crackdowns, building links from Ireland to Mexico and reaching a potentially irreversible global spillover, the United Nations warned. The transnational criminal networks …
December 16, 2024
Once considered to be simply “bean counters,” accountants now play an important role in the defence, investigation and protection against cybercrime. Modern cybercrime includes stealing personal information, hacking into systems, spreading viruses and tricking people into giving away money or …
April 15, 2024
A Rutland, Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester to conspiring to access a computer system of his former employer – a non-profit substance use and mental health treatment provider that operates recovery centers throughout Massachusetts. Nathan Howe …
May 19, 2023
The mastermind behind a global “spoofing shop” that scammed victims out of as much as £100 million ($124 million) has been sentenced to over 13 years in a UK prison. Tejay Fletcher, 35, pleaded guilty over his role as the …
January 25, 2023
A hacker group associated with North Korea, the Lazarus Group, also known as APT38, was responsible for the theft last June of $100 million from U.S. crypto firm Harmony’s Horizon bridge, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday. On …
November 16, 2022
A man who authorities say participated in a ransomware campaign that extracted tens of millions of dollars from victims has been charged in the United States, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Mikhail Vasiliev, a dual national of Russia and Canada, …
August 8, 2022
The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, accusing it of helping hackers, including from North Korea, to launder proceeds from their cyber crimes. A senior Treasury Department official said Tornado Cash, one of the …
May 2, 2022
Kentucky has become the 21st state to adopt a data security law that will require insurers and larger agencies to beef up measures designed to help prevent cyber attacks and data breaches. Gov. Andy Beshear in April signed House Bill …
January 20, 2022
The FBI and other federal agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyber threats through tools other than criminal indictments, the head of the bureau’s cyber division said in an interview with The Associated Press. Arrests and indictments of foreign cybercriminals …
December 9, 2021
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is suing two Russian nationals it claims are part of a criminal enterprise that has silently infiltrated more than a million computers and devices around the world, creating “a modern technological and borderless incarnation of organized crime.” …