by msmash | Jun 21, 2022 | crime
Fraudsters who exploit LinkedIn to lure users into cryptocurrency investment schemes pose a "significant threat" to the platform and consumers, according to Sean Ragan, the FBI's special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento, California, field offices....
by msmash | Jun 18, 2022 | crime
Over the past year, large-scale robberies have swept through stores like Louis Vuitton in San Francisco's Union Square and a nearby Nordstrom, which was robbed by 80 people. Law enforcement and retailers have warned the public that this isn't traditional shoplifting....
by EditorDavid | Jun 12, 2022 | crime
"Paige Thompson worked as a software engineer in Seattle and ran an online community for other programmers," remembers the New York Times. [Alternate URL here and here.] "In 2019, she downloaded personal information belonging to more than 100 million Capital One...
by BeauHD | Jun 7, 2022 | crime
Nintendo described the sentencing of a hacker earlier this year as a "unique opportunity" to send a message to all gamers about video game piracy. Axios reports: A newly released transcript of the Feb. 10 sentencing of Gary Bowser provides rare insight, directly from...
by EditorDavid | May 30, 2022 | crime
"Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered some new Linux-based ransomware that's being used to attack VMware ESXi servers," reports CSO Online. (They describe the ESXi servers as "a bare-metal hypervisor for creating and running several virtual machines that share...
by BeauHD | May 25, 2022 | crime
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Dutch police have received dozens of leads after using deepfake technology to virtually bring to life a teenager almost two decades after his murder. Sedar Soares was shot dead in 2003 while throwing snowballs...
