Crypto

Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam ...

A crypto phishing campaign has been identified in which a threat actor employs AI-generated content to create 17,000 phishing lure sites impersonating more than 30 major cryptocurrency brands, including Coinbase, Crypto.com, Metamask ...

DeFAIL: Cryptocurrency fans lose their worthless tokens via phishing attacks on decen­tral­ized finance sites ...

It was only a matter of time before someone did this. Bitlocker is Microsoft’s technique for encrypting a desktop, laptop, or other MS Windows device. We encrypt the device to protect the ...

In a recent cybersecurity revelation, the Python Package Index (PyPI) has fallen victim to the infiltration of three malicious packages: modularseven, driftme, and catme. These packages, although now removed, managed to amass ...

Crypto Scams: How Arkose MatchKey Bankrupted the Efforts of a Russian Hacker “My partners and I lost time and money while Arkose Labs introduced new precautions on Twitter.” – anonymous spammer In ...

Peter Gutmann of the University of Aukland recently published a parable “On the Heffalump Threat.” He pokes fun at the R&D cottage industry trying to achieve a practical quantum computer and at ...

Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised? ...

As you know from the title of my blog, "CyberCrime & Doing Time," I'm very interested in cybercrime and the criminal justice system. This week I've been looking at SIM Swapping cases ...

Sift experts discuss the fraud threats during an economically uncertain holiday season and crypto’s consumer trust problem. The post Digital Trust & Safety Roundup: Holiday fraud threats, recession-era fraudsters, and crypto under ...