Crime
Large language models could cause a huge phishing crimewave, researchers warn
LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.
Crime
Security
Search engine criminalisation: SEO poisoning campaign exposed
Scammers are buying up dodgy websites on underground marketplaces to manipulate search rankings and lure victims onto malicious pages.
Crime
Cops seize Archetyp, arrest bosses of "longest-standing" dark web drug marketplace
"The platform’s endurance, scale and reputation place it alongside now-defunct darknet markets like Dream Market and Silk Road."
Crime
Europol smashes dark web drug networks, arrests 270 vendors and buyers
Cops swoop on suspects in 10 countries using intelligence gleaned from the takedown of dark web hidden marketplaces.
Crime
Cyber shadows: A new name for an emerging AI ecosystem threat
GenAI is amplifying threats and exposing hidden dangers, increasing organisational and systemic risk.
Internet
Will the Ministry of Justice finally admit computers are unreliable witnesses?
"A blanket ‘no questions asked’ acceptance of the accuracy of digital evidence can have a devastating impact on people’s lives."
Crime
UK critical national infrastructure ransomware payment ban risks creating an "underground economy"
Westminster wants to make CNI and public sector bodies "unattractive" to criminals - a plan that could have an unexpected effect.
Crime
Stem cell clinics are tricking the sick and elderly into "expensive, unproven" therapies
Desperate people targeted by companies that claim to be able to cure everything from AIDS to Multiple Sclerosis.
Crime
Invisible "face cloaking" camouflage can dodge facial recognition, defence contractor claims
Researchers discover a new way of protecting your identity with little more than small cosmetic touches.
Security
Extortion for Xmas: The 35th anniversary of ransomware
Toasting the unlikely birth of an illicit industry that now turns over more than $1 billion each year.