Security
Dark web Initial Access Brokers are selling hacked network access for as little as $500, study reveals
Investigators find that crooks offer consumer-style hack'n'mix bundles that package access with privilege or other treats.
Crime
Crime
UK public bodies to be banned from making payments to ransomware gangs
"These new measures help undermine the criminal ecosystem that is causing harm across our economy."
Crime
Europol leads global takedown of pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16)
Cops smash Moscow-linked group blamed for a number of DDoS attacks and believed to wield a huge botnet.
Security
Four people arrested over M&S, Co-op and Harrods cyberattacks
National Crime Agency seizes three male suspects as well as a 20-year-old woman during operations in London and the West Midlands.
Crime
AntiDarkNet vigilante "annihilated" amid dark web drug user doxxing drama
Shadowy "United States of Dread" group seizes website of activist who claimed to have published the names of illegal marketplace customers.
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.
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.