crime
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Activision Got Hacked but Didn’t Tell Its Employees: Report
On Tuesday, gaming giant Activision revealed that a cybercriminal had managed to get inside of its network late last year. How did the hacker do that, exactly? Better take a guess. Is the answer…
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The FBI Hacked and Infiltrated a Ransomware Gang for Months Before Dismantling It
In one of the FBI’s most sophisticated cybercrime operations to date, agents infiltrated and spent approximately six months embedded in a prominent ransomware gang’s network, Justice Department officials announced Thursday. That gang, known as Hive, was disrupted earlier this week when agents seized its server infrastructure and also took down its website.
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The Top 10 Scams of 2022, According to the U.S. Government
Ever since folks called my elderly mum and told her they had kidnapped me in order to extort her, scammers have held a special place in my heart. (I was not kidnapped, and thankfully, my mum was not conned.) Specifically, that small little part of it that wishes them eternal damnation and diarrhoea.
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‘We’re F****** Robbing Idiots:’ Eight Financial Influencers Indicted in Massive Pump and Dump Scheme
If you have ever heard the words “this is not financial advice” or “this is not stock advice” when scrolling through TikTok or YouTube, you can be sure the next several minutes will be devoted to doing exactly that. Now federal law enforcement alleged that several financial influencers followed by hundreds of thousands of would-be…