Crime

US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts

Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them

Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 13

Organized crime and domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices

Australian study finds GPS trackers – and sometimes AirTags – are in demand for the wrong reasons

Security26 Jun 2024 | 24

Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough up $4.5B, liquidate self

South Korean outfit that triggered the world's 'Crypto Winter' will melt away after SEC order

Personal Tech17 Jun 2024 | 17

Nigerian faces up to 102 years in the slammer for $1.5M phishing scam

Crook and his alleged co-conspirators said to have used Discord to coordinate

Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 9

Best Buy and Geek Squad were most impersonated orgs by scammers in 2023

But criminals posing as Microsoft workers scored the most ill-gotten gains

Security24 May 2024 | 13

Laundering cash from healthcare, romance scams lands US man in prison for a decade

$4.5M slushed through accounts from state healthcare and lonely people

Security22 May 2024 | 2

Alleged $100M dark-web drug kingpin, 23, arrested

DoJ claims he used platform's last days to extort its users

Legal21 May 2024 | 31

Ex-CEO of 'unicorn' app startup HeadSpin heads to jail after BS'ing investors

Lachwani faked it but didn't make it

Applications22 Apr 2024 | 7

Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash

Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack

Software18 Apr 2024 | 20

Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer's cipher thank the crowd

Fifty-one years of community contributions, software, and clever cryptanalysis contributed

Bootnotes04 Apr 2024 | 38

Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors

CTO shared code from his laptop with investigation after FTX collapsed

Software03 Apr 2024 | 22

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

Australian minister singles out Meta – where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll

Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 26

Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly

On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13

Feds post $15 million bounty for info on ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware crew

infosec in brief ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns

Security19 Feb 2024 |

It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down

Column Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger

Software14 Feb 2024 | 77

Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam

$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds

Cyber-crime14 Feb 2024 | 3

Fintech engineer grounded by crypto fraud caper, including $300m spoof trades

Fourth conviction in South Africa-linked scheme

Legal08 Feb 2024 | 9

Combination of cheap .cloud domains and fake Shark Tank news fuel unhealthy wellness scams

.SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife

Security17 Jan 2024 | 5

China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia

‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more

Cyber-crime16 Jan 2024 | 5

23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms

Security in brief Also: 'well-known Bay Area tech' firm's laptops stolen and check out some critical vulns

Security11 Dec 2023 | 15

That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins

Security08 Dec 2023 | 29

Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt

Updated Chief quits, pays own penalty after helping crooks launder cash, aiding sanctions evaders

Cyber-crime22 Nov 2023 | 37

FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges

Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts

Cyber-crime03 Nov 2023 | 112

Food robots delivering bombs? Oregon State campus shut down by 'prank'

Student's new dorm room comes with bars, not the good kind

Offbeat25 Oct 2023 | 29

San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests

Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 30

Three dozen plaintiffs join Apple AirTag tracking lawsuit in amended complaint

38 people now accusing Apple of negligence over stalking, assaults and murders enabled by Bluetooth trackers

Legal13 Oct 2023 | 21

Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software

PhilHealth blames government procurement rules for license expiry and issues phishing warnings

Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2023 | 15

Hong Kong securities regulator to name suspicious crypto players

Tightens regulations after downfall of the brazen JPEX exchange

Legal27 Sep 2023 | 6

Blazar Token creator accused of using investor funds for renovating bathroom

Interesting choice, if true. Not a Lamborghini, is it?

Legal24 Aug 2023 | 10

Token prison sentence for first convicted NFT insider trader

Prosecutors wanted 2 years, but former OpenSea employee got 3 months

Legal23 Aug 2023 | 9

Celsius feels the heat: Ex-CEO arrested, watchdogs line up to sue bankrupt crypto biz

Exec faces fraud charges, one regulator wants $5 billion fine

Cyber-crime13 Jul 2023 | 10

California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull

Fraudulent cash cow milked investors for almost $9M

Offbeat28 Jun 2023 | 36

SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation

Exclusive Four disks believed stolen from Walldorf facility, at least one containing company data

Storage21 Jun 2023 | 49

Montenegro jails Do Kwon, accused of causing $40 billion LUNA crash

Crypto villain's passports were as fake as his stablecoin

Legal20 Jun 2023 | 11

Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition

Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse

Legal16 Jun 2023 | 15

Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear

Military, schools, and hospitals burned by off-brand Cisco inferno

Networks07 Jun 2023 | 36

Cry-pto: Feds bury Bitcoin exchange giant Binance in 13-count fraud lawsuit

'We are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro'

Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 25

Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill

'Liz' learns you don't screw over rich people

Science17 May 2023 | 72

IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack

Patient data 'was and is never endangered', says medical tech slinger

Cyber-crime01 May 2023 | 6

South Korea prosecutes Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin

Alleges large scale fraud, embezzling, and maybe even bribery, before crypto collapse

Legal26 Apr 2023 | 5

FBI: How fake Xi cops prey on Chinese nationals in the US

你好 [insert name], 我在 Ministry of Public Security 工作 [insert shakedown]

Cyber-crime12 Apr 2023 | 17

Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub

Decade or so in the clink begins April 27

Science11 Apr 2023 | 67

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

It starts with a headlamp and fake smart speaker, and ends in an injection attack and a vanished motor

Research06 Apr 2023 | 198

Criminal records office yanks web portal offline amid 'cyber security incident'

ACRO says payment data safe, other info may have been snaffled

Cyber-crime06 Apr 2023 | 20

Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China

'Intel inside' a suspiciously baggy t-shirt gave the game away – as did a truckload of parts

Security30 Mar 2023 | 27

B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe

Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades

Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 40

Feds arrest and charge exiled Chinese billionaire over massive crypto fraud

This one has it all: Donald Trump’s inner circle, a Beijing bot backlash, conspiracy theories, and more

Cyber-crime17 Mar 2023 | 22

FTX inner circle helped itself to $3.2B, liquidators say

SBF alone pocketed $2.2B, or so this bankruptcy paperwork goes

Cyber-crime16 Mar 2023 | 20

Four charged with swiping $1m+ of gear from Microsoft cargo trucks

Talk about off the back of a lorry

Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 11

Aussie tech worker payroll scheme operators found guilty of tax fraud

Contractors left hanging while principals splurged on luxury goods

Cyber-crime08 Mar 2023 | 19

Ericsson fined for dodgy Djibouti dealings and warned over Iraqi indiscretions

$206 million for breaching 2019 settlement – and DoJ warns it won't be afraid to do this again

Legal03 Mar 2023 | 5

Sure looks like Beijing stole blueprints from chip fab world's ASML

If at first you don’t succeed, spy, spy again

Systems27 Feb 2023 | 37

Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace

Pics Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft

Cyber-crime24 Feb 2023 | 84

FTX fiasco founder SBF faces further fraud charges

Fake donors allegedly padded politicians' pockets, both Republican and Democrat

Cyber-crime23 Feb 2023 | 21

Ex-CEO of logistics startup Slync collared on multimillion fraud, embezzlement charges

Christopher Kirchner alleged to have hyped up biz to investors then siphoned off a slice of cash

Legal15 Feb 2023 | 2

American jailed for smuggling controlled tech to Iran

30 months in prison for providing, um... enterprise mobile banking software dev tool

Legal10 Feb 2023 | 12