Crimes

What You Need to Know About the Cybersecurity Risks In the Ukraine Conflict

As a political drama with global implications plays out in Ukraine, cyberattacks on the country are proving to have significant impacts for everybody involved.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jan 22

Russia Arrests Members of REvil, One of the World’s Most Wanted Ransomware Gangs

The arrests come at a tense time for the relationship between the U.S. and Russia.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jan 14

Infrastructure Bill’s Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous

Rules included in the infrastructure bill will require new cars to deploy monitoring technology that can passively tell if a driver is intoxicated.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Nov 9

Report: FBI Had Ransomware Decryption Key for Weeks Before Giving It to Victims

After the Kaseya attack, the feds somehow came into possession of a decryption key but waited nearly a month before delivering it into the hands of businesses.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Sep 21

Kaseya Ransomware Saga Mysteriously Comes to an End, but Nothing to See Here, Folks, Just Keep It Moving

The company, which was hit by one of the worst ransomware attacks ever, has found a solution for its global problem but won't say where it came from.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jul 23

This Crowdsourced Ransomware Payment Tracker Shows How Much Cybercriminals Have Heisted

Ransomwhere keeps a publicly available running tally of ransoms paid out to cybercriminals in bitcoin.

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley Jul 8

Report: Russian Cyber Spies Recently Hacked the Republican National Committee

The alleged intrusion came around the same time that the Russian cybercriminal group REvil was conducting a massive ransomware attack on U.S. firm Kaseya.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jul 6

REvil Gang Takes Credit for Massive Kaseya Attack and Asks for $70 Million Ransom

The ransomware gang claims that more than one million systems were affected by its attack.

Tech News Jody Serrano Jul 5

DOJ Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency From Hackers After Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack

Federal agents have tracked and seized over half of the $4.4 million ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to the cybercriminal gang DarkSide following May’s cyberattack, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday. At a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said that the operation was coordinated with the help of the Justice Department’s newly…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jun 7

Colonial Pipeline Reportedly Paid Hackers $5 Million for Decryption Key That Wasn’t Very Useful

About a week ago, Colonial Pipeline paid the ransomware group DarkSide approximately $5 million in exchange for a data decryption key that didn’t really decrypt that much data. An investigation from Bloomberg found that, despite earlier reports suggesting the company had no intention of paying the cybercriminals, Colonial actually did just that “within hours of the…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek May 13

A Notorious Ransomware Gang Claims to Have Stolen Apple’s Product Designs

Cybercriminals claim to have stolen blueprints for some of Apple’s newest products and are now attempting to extort the tech giant by threatening to publish the documents online. On Tuesday, the ransomware gang REvil publicly claimed that it had hacked Quanta Computer, a third-party supplier in Taiwan that has partnerships with over a dozen large…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Apr 20

The FBI Just Snuck Into Computers All Over the Country to Stop a Hacking Campaign

In what may be a first-of-its-kind operation, the FBI recently accessed private servers across the United States, ostensibly to delete malware that had previously been installed by foreign hackers. The FBI targeted this unique digital clean-up at servers running the vulnerability-ridden email product Microsoft Exchange. The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday that the purpose of…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Apr 14

What We Know About the Hackers Behind the Accellion Data Breach

It’s been a mystery as to who is responsible for the disastrous pummeling of Accellion, the global cloud provider that, in December, suffered through a large cyberattack. This week, researchers announced that the responsible party may have ties to two prominent hacker groups. Accellion recently discovered that a threat actor had been exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Feb 23

Trump Hints He’s Open to Pardoning Edward Snowden

Donald Trump—who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for leaking classified intel on dystopian surveillance of U.S. citizens—has mused that Snowden has “not been treated fairly,” spurring a call from GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to finally pardon him. Snowden, who leaked massive numbers of internal NSA documents on secret…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Aug 14

Court Rules That Researching a Platform’s Hidden Biases Isn’t a Criminal Offense

Over the past few years, the idea of algorithmic bias—whether entirely real or mostly conspiratorial—is something that’s cropped up in conversations of niche internet groups and White House officials alike. And now, researchers and tech journalists are legally free to investigate these issues to their heart’s content—within reason, at least. After a nearly year-long battle…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky Mar 30

Drug Company That Makes OxyContin Files For Bankruptcy to Stop Lawsuits Over Opioid Crisis

Purdue Pharma, the drug company that makes the controversial pain medication OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. The bankruptcy filing will temporarily halt thousands of lawsuits against Purdue alleging that it made billions of dollars while helping to create America’s opioid epidemic which has killed over 400,000 people since 1999. The bankruptcy news,…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 16

Want to Do Crimes? Upgrade to 5G, Apparently

Europe’s police agency is worried that the 5G will interfere with law enforcement’s ability to track people. Catherine De Bolle, head of Europol is asking European Union leaders to allow their agency to be more engaged in policy conversations involving the adoption of 5G technology, Reuters reports. Police agencies in Europe, and the U.S., are…

Crime Jennings Brown Jul 19

Automatic Wifi Login Helped Police ID Teens Who Vandalized School

Four Maryland students charged with hate crimes for plastering their school in racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic words and imagery just days before their high school graduation last year were identified by school administrators because their phones had automatically connected to the campus’ wifi network, according to reports. As part of its series exploring hate crimes,…

Tech News Catie Keck Jul 10

Lyft Passenger Caught on Video Assaulting Driver Inside Moving Vehicle

Rideshare drivers don’t have it easy, but few have had to put up with the nightmare scenario Eduardo Madiedo experienced recently in Queens, New York. Like many others in this line of work, Madiedo uses a dashboard camera, which can be useful for challenging inaccurate driver testimony or just keeping drivers safe. Unfortunately, being caught…

Tech News Avery Ellis May 28

Home DNA-Testing Kits Can Help Catch Killers, But Who Decides Where We Draw the Line?

In recent years, police have increasingly used data from ancestry-testing companies to identify major crime suspects through the DNA of their family members. A new case, however, is reigniting the debate about when and where it’s appropriate to use this powerful crime-fighting tool. Famously, genetic genealogy was credited with identifying the man suspected of being…

Tech News Catie Keck May 16

What You Need to Know About the Cybersecurity Risks In the Ukraine Conflict

Russia Arrests Members of REvil, One of the World’s Most Wanted Ransomware Gangs

Infrastructure Bill’s Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous

Report: FBI Had Ransomware Decryption Key for Weeks Before Giving It to Victims

Kaseya Ransomware Saga Mysteriously Comes to an End, but Nothing to See Here, Folks, Just Keep It Moving

This Crowdsourced Ransomware Payment Tracker Shows How Much Cybercriminals Have Heisted

Report: Russian Cyber Spies Recently Hacked the Republican National Committee

REvil Gang Takes Credit for Massive Kaseya Attack and Asks for $70 Million Ransom

DOJ Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency From Hackers After Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack

Colonial Pipeline Reportedly Paid Hackers $5 Million for Decryption Key That Wasn’t Very Useful

A Notorious Ransomware Gang Claims to Have Stolen Apple’s Product Designs

The FBI Just Snuck Into Computers All Over the Country to Stop a Hacking Campaign

What We Know About the Hackers Behind the Accellion Data Breach

Trump Hints He’s Open to Pardoning Edward Snowden

Court Rules That Researching a Platform’s Hidden Biases Isn’t a Criminal Offense

Drug Company That Makes OxyContin Files For Bankruptcy to Stop Lawsuits Over Opioid Crisis

Want to Do Crimes? Upgrade to 5G, Apparently

Automatic Wifi Login Helped Police ID Teens Who Vandalized School

Lyft Passenger Caught on Video Assaulting Driver Inside Moving Vehicle

Home DNA-Testing Kits Can Help Catch Killers, But Who Decides Where We Draw the Line?

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

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