The Australian Federal Police on Friday announced the arrest of four individuals accused of being involved in business email compromise (BEC) and other types of online fraud. The group, authorities say, orchestrated more than 15 sophisticated cybercrime attacks and allegedly operated approximately 180 bank accounts to support criminal activities. Between January, 2020, and March, 2023, ..
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Criminals are set to take advantage of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to commit fraud and other cybercrimes,Europe’s policing agency warned on Monday. From phishing to disinformation and malware, the rapidly evolving abilities of chatbots will be used not only to better mankind, but to scam it too, Europol said in a new report. Created by ..
The US Justice Department said Friday it had charged the founder of BreachForums, a major underground website for computer hackers that had published large amounts of data stolen from Twitter. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, 20, of Peekskill, New York, was charged with hacking conspiracy for running BreachForums, which the Justice Department said claimed to have more ..
Mar 24, 2023 Marina Londei Approfondimenti, Eventi, Gestione dati, Mercato, Minacce, RSS 0 Quanto siamo “dataconsapevoli”? Con questa domanda si è aperto l’evento Attiva Incontra di Attiva Evolution, un’occasione di confronto per cercare di capire se le aziende sono consapevoli del valore dei propri dati e se hanno intrapreso il cammino giusto per gestirli e ..
An administrator of the popular cybercrime forum BreachForums has announced the shutdown of the website following the arrest of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, who was allegedly running the portal. Also known as Breached, BreachForums was launched roughly a year ago, as an alternative to the cybercrime marketplace RaidForums, which was seized by US authorities in February ..
Cryptocurrency ATM manufacturer General Bytes over the weekend disclosed a security incident that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of funds. The attackers, the company says, exploited a vulnerability in the master service interface that Bitcoin ATMs use to upload videos, which allowed them to upload a JavaScript script and execute it ..
A New York man accused of running the popular cybercrime forum BreachForums was arrested and charged last week. He is believed to be Pompompurin, an individual whose online moniker was mentioned in several high-profile hacking stories in the past years. The suspect is 21-year-old Conor Brian Fitzpatrick of Peekskill, New York. According to court documents ..
Australian financial services company Latitude Financial Services is notifying roughly 300,000 customers that their personal information might have been compromised in a data breach. A subsidiary of Deutsche Bank and KKE operating since 2015 and headquartered in Melbourne, Latitude is the largest non-bank lender of consumer credit in Australia, also offering services in New Zealand, ..
The FBI received more than 800,000 cybercrime-related complaints in 2022, with losses totaling over $10 billion, the agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) revealed in its latest report. The IC3’s 2022 Internet Crime Report shows that while the number of complaints was smaller compared to 2021, losses increased from $6.9 billion to $10.3 billion. In ..
London, UK based De-Fi platform company Euler has lost a reported $196 million to a flash loan attack. A flash loan is an instant unsecured loan controlled by smart contracts. It allows a borrower to obtain collateral, use that collateral for its purposes, and return the collateral to its source provided it all occurs within ..
