Cybercrime

One of the internet’s largest forums for criminal activity, has been seized and the man believed to be its operator…

In a notice on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department warned of an uptick in cyberattacks and scams linked to…

The Net, starring a post-Speed Sandra Bullock, was made in 1995, so it’s a given the technology it depicts will look…

Microsoft has obtained a court order to seize servers the company says are part of the Trickbot botnet ahead of the…

A 22-year-old boss backed by a gangster cabal of “internet buddies” has been thwarted and convicted in their attempt…

Ransomware operators are closing out a year of extorting local governments, hospitals, and schools across the…

Any protected computer system is only as safe as whoever’s in charge of it, so hopefully that person doesn’t go…

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came out all the way back in 2012—though it still has a large player base and its…

German authorities raided a data center based out of “former NATO bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and…

Two individuals were arrested this week in connection with a fraud scheme that manipulated thousands of victims into…

Ransomware incidents—cyberattacks in which bad actors demand payment in exchange for encrypted files—are a frightenin…

Eighty people have been charged in a massive international fraud scheme that sought to steal tens of millions of…

Following news this week that a mammoth data breach affected the personal information of millions of Capital One…

Lake City, Florida paid out a bitcoin ransom worth $460,000 to hackers who disabled the city’s computer systems with…

A new report by a leading cybersecurity firm finds that healthcare organizations are becoming an increasingly…

UK legal documents obtained by Bloomberg show that e-commerce titan Amazon fell prey to “extensive” fraud that…

You might have a certain idea of where cybercriminals congregate. Maybe you imagine a black hoodie operator working…

Just two groups of “highly sophisticated cyber criminals” may be behind an estimated $1 billion in cryptocurrency…

A recent review by UK cybersecurity firm Sophos in partnership with cryptocurrency firm Neutrino has concluded that…

One of the men behind the Scan4You, a counter-antivirus tool used by cybercriminals to determine whether their…