Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference
July 15 2025The Cambridge Cybercrime Conference was held on 23 June. Summaries of the presentations are here.
Read moreCryptocurrency Thefts Get Physical
April 25 2025Long story of a $250 million cryptocurrency theft that, in a complicated chain events, resulted in a pretty brutal kidnapping.
Read moreScams Based on Fake Google Emails
December 27 2024Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.
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From ZDNet:
However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic....
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The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet:
According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have...
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How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
May 10 2024There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools: Key Takeaways: Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of...
Read moreThe Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus
September 7 2023The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus:
This is the result of a secret weapon criminals...
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Read moreS3 Ep148: Remembering crypto heroes
August 17 2023Celebrating the true crypto bros. Listen now (full transcript available).
Read moreThe rise of tap-to-pay and chip-and-PIN hasn't rid the world of ATM card skimming criminals...
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