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Ransomware runs riot: Huge rise in online extortion observed
It's no secret that ransomware is fast becoming a favourite of cybercriminals, and another report has confirmed the dizzying rise of this strain of malware. Apparently there are now over 120 different families of ransomware, and a massive 3,500% increase has been witnessed in the scope of the net infrastructure which criminals use to run ransomware stings.
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The Chinese Hackers in the Back Office
Drive past the dairy farms, cornfields and horse pastures here and you will eventually arrive at Cate Machine & Welding, a small-town business run by Gene and Lori Cate and their sons. For 46 years, the Cates have welded many things — fertilizer tanks, jet-fighter parts, cheese molds, even a farmer’s broken glasses. And like many small businesses, they have a dusty old computer humming away in the back office. On this one, however, an unusual spy-versus-spy battle is playing out: The machine has been taken over by Chinese hackers.
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FBI investigating City Hall 'ransomware' attack
Ransomware attacks are not new, but they are among the fastest growing forms of malware and increasingly target government and hospital networks."
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Criminal probe launched after Italian woman who failed to get sex tape off internet kills herself
Prosecutors in Naples are probing whether to lay charges of instigating suicide after the death of a 31-year-old woman who had fought unsuccessfully to have a video showing her having sex removed from the internet. Chief prosecutor Francesco Greco said Friday that the probe is being co-ordinated with an investigation into a defamation complaint that Tiziana Cantone brought against four individuals last October.
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Oversight orders Reddit to preserve deleted posts in Clinton investigation
The House Oversight Committee has ordered Reddit to preserve deleted posts believed to be written by an IT technician the committee suspects may have deleted Hillary Clinton emails that were under subpoena. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) confirmed that the committee has issued a preservation order and that Reddit is “cooperating.” The order "has the weight of law, you can't destroy things and hope things magically get erased,” he told The Hill Wednesday.
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Czech Police say FBI Helped them Nab Russian Hacking Suspect
Police in the Czech Republic have detained an unidentified Russian man suspected of participating in cyberattacks on the United States, according to a statement published Wednesday on the police website
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Kim Dotcom Credited With Reopening Of FBI Investigation
This is unusual. As reported, noted hacktivist/entrepreneur/Clinton globalist victim Kim DotCom had promised Hillary Clinton a birthday surprise. Many are saying he now delivered, and that delivery is what lead to the reopening of the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton and her misuse of classified information. He tweeted the following how-to guide...
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Victims turn table on Internet ‘troll,’ win $1.4 million civil award
William Moreno said the campaign of Internet trolling he and his family endured was as vicious as it was unrelenting. A SWAT team was sent to their Virginia home, false charges were filed against him and he was accused online of molesting a girl. The “reign of terror,” as he described it, was so bad that Moreno said he eventually tried to take his own life. Now, he and his family have finally turned the tables on one of the men they accused of tormenting them, winning a $1.4 million civil judgment in court.
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The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn
Evgeny Buryakov woke up to a snowstorm. On the morning of Jan. 26, 2015, his modest brick home in the Bronx was getting the first inches of what would be almost a foot of powder, and Buryakov, the No. 2 executive at the New York branch of a Russian bank, decided to skip work and head around the corner to a grocery store to buy supplies for his family of four. As the 39-year-old Russian bundled into his winter gear and closed the front door of his house behind him, he didn’t realize he would never set foot in it again.
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New Scheme: Spread Popcorn Time Ransomware, get chance of free Decryption Key
A in-development ransomware was discovered called Popcorn Time that intends to give victim's a very unusual way of getting a free decryption key. With Popcorn Time, not only can a victim pay a ransom to get their files back, but they can also try to infect two other people and have them pay the ransom in order to get a free key.
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Wikileaks has offered to help Barack Obama authenticate evidence of Russian election hacking
Wikileaks has offered to help US President Barack Obama authenticate spy agencies' assessment that Russia was behind the leak of hacked Democratic emails during the presidential election. The whistleblowing group, led by fugitive Julian Assange and which this summer published online the private medical files of mental health patients and teen rape victims, claimed on Twitter that only its authentication processes could render the conclusions credible.
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Online databases dropping like flies, with >10,000 falling to ransomware
Poorly secured MongoDB installations deleted and held for ransom.
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Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data
The hackers have been hacked. Motherboard has obtained 900 GB of data related to Cellebrite, one of the most popular companies in the mobile phone hacking industry. The cache includes customer information, databases, and a vast amount of technical data regarding Cellebrite's products. The breach is the latest chapter in a growing trend of hackers taking matters into their own hands, and stealing information from companies that specialize in surveillance or hacking technologies.
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A vigilante hacker took down 20 percent of the dark web after finding child porn
An attack on the Dark Web left a whopping 20 percent of it in shambles. On Friday, a vigilante managed to hack into Dark Web hosting service, Freedom Hosting II, after realizing that it was allowing child pornography sites. As first reported by the Verge, visitors to more than 10,000 sites on Friday saw not their expected content, but rather a message that read, “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.”
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I Tracked Myself With $170 Smartphone Spyware that Anyone Can Buy
For a relatively small fee, you can snoop on someone’s messages, call logs, photos, and location from across the planet. In a rundown and noisy Berlin bar, a friend and I were having a private conversation. But nearly 4,000 miles away, someone was listening from their New York apartment.
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Electronic health records: The new gold standard for cybercriminals
Electronic health record (EHR) systems are being compromised by script kiddies, cybercriminals, self-radicalized threat actors, and nation states. Learn how and why.
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Russian hackers extort money from Trump’s critics
Russian hackers conducted a series of attacks on American liberal organizations, demanding a ransom for non-disclosure of confidential information they had obtained through hacking their e-mails and networking applications like SharePoint that allows sharing Microsoft Office files, Bloomberg reported citing sources with information from the FBI and private security companies.
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Are you lying about your identity? Artificial intelligence can tell by how you use your mouse
New algorithm can catch frauds with up to 95% accuracy.
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Global ransomware attack causes turmoil
Banks, retailers, energy firms and Kiev airport say they have been targeted by malware attacks.
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London police arrest four in Windows support scam bust
City of London Police, collaborating with Microsoft, have made four arrests as the result of a two-year investigation into rings of "Windows support" fraudsters. The arrests, London Police Commander Dave Clark told the press, "are just the beginning of our work, making the best use of specialist skills and expertise from Microsoft, local police forces, and international partners to tackle a crime that often targets the most vulnerable in our society."
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