20 Indicted in Multimillion-Dollar Online Fraud Scheme
Federal prosecutors have indicted 20 people in a multimillion-dollar international online fraud scheme. The case announced Thursday stems from a lengthy investigation out of...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Australia Wields Vast Decryption Powers Before Planned Review
Australian security agencies have begun using sweeping new powers to access encrypted communications, even before a promised review to address concerns from the likes...
Appeals Court to Hear Case of Reporter Alleging Surveillance
When Sharyl Attkisson first began hearing clicking sounds on her phone and her computers started turning on and off in the middle of the...
Trump Ally Stone Charged With Lying About Hacked Emails
President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone has been charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid....
Portuguese Hacker Linked to ‘Football Leaks’ Held in Hungary
A Portuguese hacker said by his lawyers to have played a pivotal role in the Football Leaks whistleblower website was fighting extradition from Hungary...
U.S. in Criminal Probe of China’s Huawei: Report
US authorities are in the “advanced” stages of a criminal probe that could result in an indictment of Chinese technology giant Huawei, a report...
UK Hacker Jailed for Attack on Liberian Telecoms Firm
A British computer hacker has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a cyberattack that knocked out telecommunications services in Liberia. Daniel Kaye...
Was North Korea Wrongly Accused of Ransomware Attacks?
Ryuk Ransomware’s Attribution to North Korea Likely Incorrect, Multiple Security Firms Believe The Ryuk ransomware that emerged in summer of 2018 is likely not...
Blacklisted Kaspersky Tipped NSA on Security Breach: Media
The computer security firm Kaspersky Labs helped the US NSA spy agency uncover one of its worst-ever security breaches — one year before the...
FBI Steps Up Efforts Against ‘Money Mules’ Online Fraud
The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting...