June 12, 2020

Facebook paid for a 0-day to help FBI unmask child predator

A third-party cybersecurity firm were paid to drill a hole in a Tor-reliant operating system to uncover a man who spent years sextorting young girls.

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June 04, 2020

Nuclear missile contractor hacked in Maze ransomware attack

Attackers hacked and encrypted the computers of a contractor whose clients include the US military, government agencies and major military contractors.

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May 06, 2020

Adult live-streaming site CAM4 leaks millions of emails, private chats

The leak exposed millions of records with full names, emails, user conversations, payment logs, and IP addresses dating back to March.

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April 22, 2020

Porn scammers making $100,000 a month from sextortion emails

SophosLabs worked through five months’ worth of “porn scam” emails and followed the money. Learn what they found...

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March 19, 2020

‘Dirty little secret’ extortion email threatens to give your family coronavirus

...And it's got your password as "proof".

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February 13, 2020

FBI: Cybercrime tore a $3.5b hole in victims’ pockets last year

The FBI's Internet Crime Report shows that business email comprise is the biggest money-maker for cybercriminals.

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November 01, 2019

Hackers plead guilty to breach that Uber covered up

The two men pointed to Uber's $100K hush-money payment when they tried to extort Linkedin-owned Lynda... that instead called the cops.

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October 14, 2019

Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site

In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.

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October 08, 2019

GPS tracker from stalked woman’s car led to indictment of 20 mobsters

Girlfriend found it, girlfriend popped it onto a city bus, gadget got found, multiyear investigation got launched, 20 got indicted.

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