He cracked passwords for a living – now he’s serving 4 years in prison
Crooks don’t need a password for every user on your network to break in and wreak havoc. One could be enough…
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Crooks don’t need a password for every user on your network to break in and wreak havoc. One could be enough…
Cryptocurrency expert didn’t take “No” for an answer when the US authorities said he couldn’t pursue cryptocoin opps in North Korea.
The cops say they’ve recovered 80% of a $72 million cryptocoin heist… but the recovered funds alone are now worth over $4 billion!
Phew! An audacious crime… that didn’t work out.
Suspects nabbed, millions seized, in ransomware busts across the globe.
Gift card fraud may sound like small beer against ransomware – but it’s personal, it hurts, and it’s still a multi-million dollar problem.
by Paul Ducklin You can probably guess what we mean by “Twitter hack“. Some data breaches involve millions or even billions of accounts, perhaps compromised by a leaky cloud storage server or a poorly-secured customer database. In contrast, the Twitter hack we’re referring to ultimately led to the takeover of . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin More than eight-and-a-half years ago, we wrote about the US indictment of three cybercrime suspects. The troika was wanted for allegedly operating a bank-raiding crimeware “service” known as Gozi, based on zombie malware that used a technique known as HTML injection to trick victims into revealing personal . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin The US Department of Justice (DOJ) just announced that it has charged a 55-year-old Latvian woman, who went by the moniker of Max, with malware-writing crimes. Max, whose real name is apparently Alla Witte, is the sixth of seven defendants listed in the DOJ’s indictment, along with . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin We all ought to know by now that passwords that are easy to guess will get guessed. We recently reminded ourselves of that by guessing, by hand, 17 of the top 20 passwords in the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) Pwned Passwords database in under two minutes. . . . Read more