Results for 'cybercrime'
Europol lifts the lid on cybercrime tactics
September 15, 2023 - The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), has published a report that examines developments in cyberattacks, discussing new methodologies and...
An odd kind of cybercrime: Gift vouchers, medical records, and…food
October 24, 2022 - Someone with a gift for technology but a nasty habit of using it for very bad things has been spared from...
Criminals using compromised social media accounts to “post indecent images of children” says UK cybercrime organization
July 29, 2022 - Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime, is warning of a very disturbing scam involving social media...
Italian mafia cybercrime sting leads to 100+ arrests
September 23, 2021 - The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) has successfully dismantled an organized crime ring of hundreds of members in a sting operation...
DOJ recovers pipeline ransom, signals more aggressive approach to cybercrime
June 8, 2021 - The US Department of Justice announced Monday that it recovered much of the ransomware payment that Colonial Pipeline paid to free...
TrickBot indictment reveals the scale and complexity of organized cybercrime
June 8, 2021 - Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. Initially observed by our Labs team spreading via...
Cybercrime, fraud, and insider threats increased in 2020 in the UK, report says
June 3, 2021 - Since the initial lockdown, we have seen the rise of certain types of cybercrime, including scams and fraud campaigns that either...
How exposed are you to cybercrime?
July 17, 2020 - No country, business, or person is immune to cybercrime, and as the Internet’s influence on our daily lives grows exponentially, so...
The face of tomorrow’s cybercrime: Deepfake ransomware explained
June 26, 2020 - While many countries are beginning to ease up on their respective pandemic lock downs—which, in turn, also means that everyone will...
Are our police forces equipped to deal with modern cybercrimes?
March 4, 2020 - “You should have asked for the presence of a digital detective,” Karen said when I told her what happened at the...
