Cybercrime
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.
Cybercrime
Cybersecurity
Scattered Spider spins its web beyond retail, sinks fangs into insurance
"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."
Cybercrime
Elon Musk vs Donald Trump feud sparks big, unbeautiful cybercrime wave
Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.
Dark Web
"Security teams don’t need more noise": Microsoft Copilot now surfaces dark web threat intelligence
Bitsight teams up with Microsoft to monitor threats emerging from the dankest corners of the hidden web.
Dark Web
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."
Security
Organic panic as top Whole Foods supplier becomes latest victim of retail hackers
United Natural Foods (UNFI) discloses a security incident and outage that's threatening expensive organic food supply chains across the US.
Cybersecurity
Scattered Spider breaks America: High Street hackers sink fangs into US retailers
Group linked to the blockbuster M&S cyberattack is now believed to be targeting retailers on the other side of the Atlantic.
Cybercrime
Coinbase cyberheist led by "rogue support agents" could cost $400 million
Cyber criminals recruited insiders to steal Coinbase customer data and demanded a $20 million ransom.
Q&A
The commoditisation of cybercrime: Inside the AI arms race
"The barriers to entry have dropped dramatically."
Cybersecurity
The gangs of Pyongyang: A rogue’s gallery of North Korean hacking groups
Your guide to Kim Jong-un's high-earning cybercrime squads, from the Lazarus Group to Andariel.
Cybercrime
British cops losing "arms race" with high-tech car thieves, MPs warn
"It is disheartening to see so much car theft in our cities and the police are unable to do anything about it."
Opinion
Unmasking money-laundering gangs with AI and graph databases
"Criminals have become adept at creating intricate networks of identities, shell companies, and banking accounts to obscure their activities."