Two environmentalists told a federal judge Thursday that the public was the real victim of a global computer hacking campaign that targeted those fighting big oil companies to get the truth out about global warming. A climate scientist and the director of a fund that creates initiatives to address climate change spoke at the sentencing ..
Tag : Cybercrime
Wisconsin teenager Joseph Garrison has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a scheme to access user accounts at a fantasy sports and betting website. According to court documents, on November 18, 2022, Garrison launched a credential stuffing attack against the betting site, obtaining access to approximately 60,000 user accounts. The defendant and others then stole ..
Moving to clamp down on the growing scourge of SIM-swapping and port-out fraud, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled new rules mandating telcos to give consumers greater control of their mobile phone accounts. Under the new rules, wireless carriers are required to notify customers of any SIM transfer requests, a measure designed to thwart ..
An Israeli private investigator who made nearly $5 million by hacking companies and individuals has been sentenced to 80 months in prison in the United States, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. Authorities said the man, 52-year-old Aviram Azari, was arrested on computer hacking, wire fraud and identity theft charges when he traveled to the ..
Arkose Labs has analyzed and reported on tens of billions of bot attacks from January through September 2023, collected via the Arkose Labs Global Intelligence Network. Bots are automated processes acting out over the internet. Some perform useful purposes, such as indexing the internet; but the majority are Bad Bots designed for malicious ends. Bad ..
La rubrica “Digital & Law” è curata da D&L Net e offre una lettura delle materie dell’innovazione digitale da una prospettiva che sia in grado di offrire piena padronanza degli strumenti e dei diritti digitali, anche ai non addetti ai lavori. Per consultare tutti gli articoli clicca qui. I fatti di cronaca li conosciamo, e il contesto ..
Attackers are targeting MySQL servers and Docker hosts to plant malware capable of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a warning from researchers at the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center. According to AhnLab, attacks targeting MySQL on Windows have increased in frequency with vulnerable MySQL servers infected with ‘Ddostf’, a DDoS-capable botnet of Chinese ..
The ransomware and data extortion group RansomedVC announced plans to shut down the project and sell parts of its infrastructure. RansomedVC has only been around for a few months, operating under the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) business model. The group has listed more than 40 organizations on its leak site, demanding ransom payments of up to $1 ..
DP World, Australia’s largest container terminal and supply chain operator, has been hit by a cyberattack that resulted in significant disruptions at several major Australian ports. In response to the attack, DP World disconnected its systems from the internet and shut down land operations at ports in Sydney, Melbourne, Fremantle and Brisbane. Ships could still ..
Nel primo semestre del 2023 gli attacchi cyber in Italia sono cresciuti del 40% rispetto allo stesso periodo dell’anno precedente. È questo il dato che emerge dalla presentazione del Rapporto Clusit 2023 sui dati del 1° semestre 2023 e gli incidenti di cyber più significativi avvenuti a livello globale e in Italia nei primi sei mesi dell’anno e ..
