Iranian Hacker Pleads Guilty in $19 Million Robbinhood Ransomware Attack on Baltimore

An Iranian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over his involvement in an international ransomware and extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware. Sina Gholinejad aka Sina Ghaaf, 37, and his co-conspirators are said to have breached the computer networks of various organizations in...

New warning issued over toll fee scams

Over a year ago the FBI warned about what was then a new form of smishing phishing via SMS scam: text messages that demanded payment for toll fees. The FTC sent out a similar warning in January, 2025. Then, in April another wave of toll fee scams began doing the rounds. Now the Departments of Mot...

Apple Blocks $9 Billion in Fraud Over 5 Years Amid Rising App Store Threats

Apple on Tuesday revealed that it prevented over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions in the last five years, including more than $2 billion in 2024 alone. The company said the App Store is confronted by a wide range of threats that seek to defraud users in various ways, ranging from "deceptive...

Employees Searching Payroll Portals on Google Tricked Into Sending Paychecks to Hackers

Threat hunters have exposed a novel campaign that makes use of search engine optimization SEO poisoning techniques to target employee mobile devices and facilitate payroll fraud. The activity, first detected by ReliaQuest in May 2025 targeting an unnamed customer in the manufacturing sector, is...

Our capabilities. A story about what we can achieve

Introduction Over the years we have been fortunate to have been called upon to help with some challenging investigations. iPhone prize scams, ransomware attacks that weren't, aiding the Steele Dossier case, and even a fraudulent €14 million transfer. Here we've picked out the most interesting one...

CVE-2024-10544

The Woo Manage Fraud Orders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.1 through publicly exposed log files. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view potentially sensitive information about users contained in...

CVE-2024-33678

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in eranfl ClickCease Click Fraud Protection clickcease-click-fraud-protection.This issue affects ClickCease Click Fraud Protection: from n/a through = 3.2.7...

U.S. Dismantles DanaBot Malware Network, Charges 16 in $50M Global Cybercrime Operation

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the disruption of the online infrastructure associated with DanaBotaka DanaTools and unsealed charges against 16 individuals for their alleged involvement in the development and deployment of the malware, which it said was controlled by a...

CVE-2023-27557

IBM Counter Fraud Management for Safer Payments 6.1.0.00 through 6.1.1.02, 6.2.0.00 through 6.2.2.02, 6.3.0.00 through 6.3.1.02, 6.4.0.00 through 6.4.2.01, and 6.5.0.00 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM...

CVE-2023-39159

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in theDotstore Fraud Prevention For Woocommerce plugin = 2.1.5 versions...

CVE-2023-21171

In verifyInputEvent of InputDispatcher.cpp, there is a possible way to conduct click fraud due to side channel information disclosure. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions...

CVE-2023-27556

IBM Counter Fraud Management for Safer Payments 6.1.0.00, 6.2.0.00, 6.3.0.00 through 6.3.1.03, 6.4.0.00 through 6.4.2.02 and 6.5.0.00 does not properly allocate resources without limits or throttling which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 249190...

CVE-2020-4729

IBM Counter Fraud Management for Safer Payments 5.7.0.00 through 5.7.0.10, 6.0.0.00 through 6.0.0.07, 6.1.0.00 through 6.1.0.05, and 6.2.0.00 through 6.2.1.00 could allow an authenticated attacker under special circumstances to send multiple specially crafted API requests that could cause the...

PT-2025-22381 · Cisco · Cisco Secure Network Analytics Manager +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco Secure Network Analytics Manager and Cisco Secure Network Analytics Virtual Manager affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the API subsystem could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with low privileges to...

DoorDash Hack

A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months: The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account in the DoorDash app. Then, using DoorDash employee credentials, he manually assigned the orders to driver accounts he and the othe...

Android users bombarded with unskippable ads

Researchers have discovered a very versatile ad fraud network—known as Kaleidoscope—that bombards users with unskippable ads. Normally, ad fraud is not a concern for users of infected devices. They might experience some sluggish behavior on their device, but often that’s the extent of it. Ad frau...

Xinbi Telegram Market Tied to $8.4B in Crypto Crime, Romance Scams, North Korea Laundering

A Chinese-language, Telegram-based marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee has facilitated no less than $8.4 billion in transactions since 2022, making it the second major black market to be exposed after HuiOne Guarantee. According to a report published by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, merchant...

Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud

Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud...

Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia

As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online...

Exploring the Susceptibility to Fraud of Monetary Incentive Mechanisms for Strengthening FOSS Projects

Free and open source software FOSS is ubiquitous on modern IT systems, accelerating the speed of software engineering over the past decades. With its increasing importance and historical reliance on uncompensated contributions, questions have been raised regarding the continuous maintenance of FO...