Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia's top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the...
Read moreThe U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime...
Read moreHow Cyber Sleuths Cracked an ATM Shimmer Gang
June 23 2021In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new "shimming" devices made to clone data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad...
Read moreConfessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II
August 27 2020Yesterday's piece told the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo, a hacker the U.S. Secret Service described as someone who caused more material financial harm to more Americans than any...
Read moreConfessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I
August 26 2020At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as "Hieupc" was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some...
Read moreA well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of...
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