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Ransomware Is ‘More Brutal’ Than Ever in 2024
As the fight against ransomware slogs on, security experts warn of a potential escalation to “real-world violence.” But recent police crackdowns are successfully disrupting the cybercriminal ecosystem...
Breach Forums Plans Dark Web Return This Week Despite FBI Crackdown
By Waqas The strange and tricky world of cybercrime and the dark web is getting stranger and trickier! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Breach Forums Plans Dark Web Return This Week Despite FBI Crackdown...
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
The world's most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown...
INTERPOL Arrests 31 in Global Operation, Identifies 1,900+ Ransomware-Linked IPs
An INTERPOL-led collaborative operation targeting phishing, banking malware, and ransomware attacks has led to the identification of 1,300 suspicious IP addresses and URLs. The law enforcement effort, codenamed Synergia, took place between September and November 2023 in an attempt to blunt the...
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown...
3,500 Arrested in Global Operation HAECHI-IV Targeting Financial Criminals
A six-month-long international police operation codenamed HAECHI-IV has resulted in the arrests of nearly 3,500 individuals and seizures worth $300 million across 34 countries. The exercise, which took place from July through December 2023, took aim at various types of financial crimes such as...
ChatGPT Spit Out Sensitive Data When Told to Repeat ‘Poem’ Forever
Plus: A major ransomware crackdown, the arrest of Ukraine’s cybersecurity chief, and a hack-for-hire entrepreneur charged with attempted murder...
Google’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Growing
Plus: North Korean supply chain attacks, a Russian USB worm spreads internationally, and more...
Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Hit the US
TikTok user data is exposed to Chinese ByteDance employees, a screen recording app goes rogue in Google Play, and privacy groups want Slack to expand encryption...
Netflix’s Password Sharing Crackdown Goes Global: 103 Countries Affected
By Habiba Rashid Netflix is sending emails addressing password sharing between households, and users are not happy about it as CancelNetflix trends on social media. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Netflixs Password Sharing Crackdown Goes Global: 103 Countries Affected...
FBI Cracks Down on Genesis Market: 119 Arrested in Cybercrime Operation
A joint international law enforcement operation has dismantled Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace that specialized in the sale of stolen credentials associated with email, bank accounts, and social media platforms. Coinciding with the infrastructure seizure, the major crackdown, which...
Do cyber regulations actually make K–12 schools safer? Navigating compliance while securing school and student data
Over the last decade, K-12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning--especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. While students have long since returned to the classroom, digital platforms for instruction, collaboration, and homewor...
Googling for Software Downloads Is Extra Risky Right Now
Plus: The FTC cracks down on GoodRx, Microsoft boots “verified” phishing scammers, researchers disclose EV charger vulnerabilities, and more...
Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet
Accidental revisions to a US Help Center page sparked confusion about the streamer's next moves. But restrictions on account sharing are still coming soon...
Russians Hacked JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch in Line-Skipping Scheme
Plus: An offensive US hacking operation, swatters hacking Ring cameras, a Netflix password-sharing crackdown, and more...
The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect
The Infowars host now knows the cost of “free speech”—but does the landmark judgment signal a crackdown on disinformation?...
Iran’s Internet Shutdown Hides a Deadly Crackdown
Amid protests against the killing of Mahsa Amini, authorities have cut off mobile internet, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The death toll continues to rise...
The Feds Gear Up for a Privacy Crackdown
Plus: Cisco gets hit by ransomware, Twilio gets phished, a new way to fight email spammers, and much more...
The ransomware landscape changes as fewer victims decide to pay
Fewer victims are choosing to pay their ransomware extorters, especially among large enterprises, according to a recent investigation from Coveware. As a result of this, and other circumstances, we can see some shifts in the way that ransomware groups and their affiliates work. Large organization...
Security Experts Warn of Two Primary Client-Side Risks Associated with Data Exfiltration and Loss — The Hacker News
Two client-side risks dominate the problems with data loss and data exfiltration: improperly placed trackers on websites and web applications and malicious client-side code pulled from third-party repositories like NPM. Client-side security researchers are finding that improperly placed trackers,...