On April 6th, 2026 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
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On April 5th, 2026 with 28 comments
One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. "Victims were in...
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On March 20th, 2026 with 33 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from CNN: The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth...
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On March 13th, 2026 with 144 comments
Mr. Dollar Ton shares a report from the Guardian: Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an...
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On March 6th, 2026 with 65 comments
A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison and fined $50,000 for illegally trafficking thousands of Microsoft certificate-of-authenticity...
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On February 26th, 2026 with 7 comments
A Greek court has convicted four individuals linked to the marketing of Predator spyware in the wiretapping scandal that shook the country in 2022. The BBC...
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On February 21st, 2026 with 78 comments
"More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer," reports CNN:
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On February 15th, 2026 with 58 comments
While serving his 25-year prison sentence, "convicted former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday requested a new federal trial," reports...
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On February 1st, 2026 with 122 comments
The BBC reports:
China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media...
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On January 29th, 2026 with 13 comments
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: The FBI has seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum, a platform used to advertise a wide range of malware...
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On January 26th, 2026 with 25 comments
California tech executive Gordon Abas Goodarzi has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of his estranged wife, Aryan Papoli, whose body was found...
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On January 23rd, 2026 with 3 comments
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Deel over allegations that it recruited a spy inside rival Rippling, according to...
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On January 15th, 2026 with 10 comments
The powerful data privacy watchdog in Italy long known for aggressively policing U.S. and Chinese AI giants is under investigation for possible corruption and...
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On January 7th, 2026 with 3 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company, whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the...
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On December 30th, 2025 with 17 comments
Two cybersecurity professionals who spent their careers defending organizations against ransomware attacks have pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to...
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On December 22nd, 2025 with 26 comments
They call it "the business-impersonator scam". And it's fooled 396,227 Americans in just the first nine months of 2025 — 18% more than the 335,785 in the...
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On December 20th, 2025 with 59 comments
During a search for the Brown shoogin suspect, a law enforcement press conference included a request for "Ring camera footage from residents and businesses...
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On December 12th, 2025 with 43 comments
Carl Rinsch, the director behind the 2013 Keanu Reeves film "47 Ronin," has been found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million that was meant to fund a...
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On December 11th, 2025 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated...
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On December 11th, 2025 with 62 comments
A UC Berkeley professor, suspecting years of targeted computer damage against one Ph.D. student, secretly installed a hidden camera that allegedly caught...
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On December 8th, 2025 with 19 comments
Europol's GRIMM taskforce has arrested nearly 200 people accused of running or participating in "violence-as-a-service" schemes where cybercrime groups recruit...
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On December 6th, 2025 with 154 comments
"Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway," reads the headline at Futurism:
As Daily Dot reports, a New York subway rider has...
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On December 5th, 2025 with 54 comments
Two Virginia brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, previously convicted of hacking the U.S. State Department, were rehired as federal contractors and are now...
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On November 30th, 2025 with 41 comments
It's "a complex mix of internet access and physical execution," says the chief informance security officer at Cequence Security.
Long-time Slashdot reader...
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On November 21st, 2025 with 11 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US crackdown on chip exports to China has continued with the arrests of four people accused of a...
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On November 20th, 2025 with 57 comments
An Ohio IT contractor pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's network after being fired, impersonating another worker and using a PowerShell...
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On November 18th, 2025 with 85 comments
schwit1 shares a report from the New York Times: Pete Kayll, a musclebound veteran of Britain's Royal Marines, had an unusual instruction for the Bitcoin...
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On November 15th, 2025 with 18 comments
"Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message," reports BGR:
Google said it's...
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On November 15th, 2025 with 34 comments
It was the first allegation of a crime committed in space — back in 2019. But by 2020 it had led to
charges of lying to federal authorities.
And now a...
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On November 14th, 2025 with 31 comments
"Within the past year, stories have been posted on Slashdot about people helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at U.S. corporations, companies knowingly...
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