crime-mapper

Enabling cyber investigations from a browser A prototype tool for mapping cyber crime Created by @UKDanielCard The experimental version is the live, bleeeding edge version Live Demo is largely where I'm storing a relatively stable version... but this is all DEV! IF YOU WANT TO REALLY TEST THIS,...

CRIME-poc

CRIME-poc CRIME attack : a compression oracle attacks CVE-2012-4929 discovered by Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong; In a compression oracle attack the use of adaptive data compression on a mixture of chosen plaintext and unknown plaintext can result in content-sensitive changes in the length of the...

Crime Stoppers chapter freezes tips after breach breaks anonymity promise

A breach exposed personal information in supposedly anonymous crime reports. Now one Crime Stoppers chapter has stopped accepting tips because it cannot guarantee anonymity. Toronto Crime Stoppers, which works with the community, police, and media to help solve crimes, has paused phone, website,...

Runaway Reaction: When Benign Skills Compose into Malicious Behavior

Agent skills package task-specific knowledge and procedures that can be composed to support complex agent tasks, while public marketplaces provide a growing pool of reusable skills. Existing security vetting, however, largely evaluates skills in isolation, leaving composition-induced risks...

INTERPOL Operation Jackal IV Arrests 58, Identifies 263 in Global Cyber Fraud Crackdown

An eight-month INTERPOL operation targeting West African organized crime groups has led to arrests of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects. "The operation, which brought together 22 countries from six continents, is a response to the escalating global threat posed by West African...

Describing attacks with crime script analysis

Crime script analysis is a narrative-driven technique that can be used alongside, or as an alternative to, tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs -- creating human-readable stories that describe attacks in a way non-technical audiences can understand. By analyzing the attacker's workflow, we ca...

Your polite reply to that text is worth $2 on the dark web

Most wrong-number texts are harmless. Some are the first step in a carefully planned scam. By replying, you may be confirming that your number is active and that you're willing to engage with strangers, making you a more valuable target for future fraud. Here's why a polite response can be worth...

Trump Memo Paves Way for U.S. Firms to Hack and Disrupt Foreign Crime Groups

A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the National Coordination Center NCC to establish a program that would allow private sector companies to take advantage of their "innovative capabilities" to break into foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations TCOs an...

‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware

Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing to go to to steal servers and other gear meant for data centers...

7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran

Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed...

Fake FBI Agents Use IC3 Complaint Scams to Target Fraud Victims

Fake FBI agents are using deepfake videos, spoofed IC3 websites and false recovery claims to steal money and personal information from people who were scammed before, the FBI warns...

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack

Owen Flowers , 18, and Thalha Jubair , 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority's employees into an...

How mule betting scams recruit ordinary people

Mule betting or third-party betting account scams are a form of money mule scam where criminals recruit or coerce people into opening gambling accounts in their own name. The criminals then use those accounts to place bets to help launder money and obscure the source or ownership of funds. The UK...

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics...

sslpwn

sslpwn sslpwn is a security research tool for testing web app...

FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report

The 2025 Internet Crime Report was published a few weeks ago, but I only just saw it. Lots of interesting statistics. Press release. News articles...

Researchers left AI agents alone in a virtual town and watched it all unravel

Tech leaders have spent the past year telling everyone that AI agents are about to run financial systems, file your tax returns, and quietly buy your groceries. Just leave them alone, the rhetoric goes; they'll handle it. But a New York startup left ten of them alone in a virtual town for two...

A Ransomware Negotiator Was Working for a Ransomware Gang

Someone pleaded guilty to secretly working for a ransomware gang as he negotiated ransomware payments for clients...

IWCC 2026 Call for Papers

The 15th International Workshop on Cyber Crime, or IWCC, 2026 call for papers has been announced. It will be held this year in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ARES 2026 in Link�ping, Sweden, August 24th through the 27th, 2026...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: $290M DeFi Hack, macOS LotL Abuse, ProxySmart SIM Farms +25 New Stories

You scroll past one incident and see another that feels familiar, like it should have been fixed years ago, but it still works with small changes. Same bugs. Same mistakes. The supply chain is messy. Packages you did not check are stealing data, adding backdoors, and spreading. Attacking the...