14 Arrested in Romania for £47 Million UK Tax Phishing Scam

14 arrested in major HMRC phishing scam raids across UK & Romania. Learn about the multi-million-pound tax fraud operation...

Notorious Evil Corp Hackers Targeted NATO Allies for Russian Intelligence

UK law enforcement and international partners have released new details about the cybercriminal gang Evil Corp, including its use of the Lockbit ransomware platform and ties to Russian intelligence...

Snowden Ten Years Later

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as well. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. The New Yorker agreed to publish it, but the Guardian asked me not to...

Louisiana wants your ID if you're looking at adult-only websites

The state of Louisiana introduced a law on January 1, 2023, that holds sites that specialize in pornographic content accountable if they do not check their visitors' ages. A website is obliged to check whether a visitor is of the legal age required to access pornographic content if a substantial...

Friday Squid Blogging: UK Recognizes Squid as Sentient Beings

This seems big: The UK government has officially included decapod crustaceans-including crabs, lobsters, and crayfish-and cephalopod mollusks-including octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish-in its Animal Welfare Sentience Bill. This means they are now recognized as "sentient beings" in the UK. As usua...

A week in security (June 11 – June 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we discussed how to protect the online privacy of children, we gave you a spring 2018 overview of exploit kits, rounded up the ongoing discussions about the VPNFilter malware, and discussed the struggles of UK law enforcement with modern-day cybercrime. Other news...

UK law enforcement: an uphill struggle to fight hackers

About 16 years ago in the UK, I walked into a local police station to report a computer crime, because walking into local police stations is how they did things back then. There may well also have been penny farthing bicycles, real pea souper fogs, Mary Poppins, and Jack the Ripper, though I coul...

Attacks On MPAA's UK Law Firm Lead to Data Leaks, Lawsuit

A UK Law firm that has aggressively pursued cases against illegal file sharing on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA and Recording Industry Association of America RIAA now finds itself in the cross hairs of both hackers and and privacy activists. The firm was the subject of...