Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany
A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany […]
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German Cops Raid “Cyberbunker 2.0,” Arrest 7 in Child Porn, Dark Web Market Sting
German authorities said Friday they’d arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web […]
MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
Earlier this month, employees at more than 1,000 companies saw one or two paycheck’s worth of funds deducted from their bank accounts […]
Interview With the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession
In April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get […]
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
This week, ESET researchers released their findings on Winnti Group’s MSSQL backdoor and showed how they’d tracked down the operator of an […]
Your smart doorbell may be collecting more data than you think, study finds
The study tested 81 IoT devices to analyze their behavior and tracking habits, and in some cases brought rather surprising findings The […]
Facebook lays out plan to protect elections
How is the social network preparing to curtail the spread of misinformation as the election season heats up? The post Facebook lays […]
Tracking down the developer of Android adware affecting millions of users
ESET researchers discovered a year-long adware campaign on Google Play and tracked down its operator. The apps involved, installed eight million times, […]
Smart cities must be cyber‑smart cities
As cities turn to IoT to address long-standing urban problems, what are the risks of leaving cybersecurity behind at the planning phase? […]
NordVPN reveals breach at datacenter provider
The company says that the incident, going back to March 2018, affected only 1 out of its 3,000 servers The post NordVPN […]