Tag: Law & order
“Gucci Master” business email scammer Hushpuppi gets 11 years
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Naked Security writer
He was sentenced under his real-life name of Ramon, but in back in his boastful days of pretending to be a seriously...
NetWalker ransomware affiliate sentenced to 20 years by Florida court
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Naked Security writer
Naked Security has written and talked about Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins before, in both article and podcast form.
Vachon-Desjardins had been a federal government worker...
Romance scammer and BEC fraudster sent to prison for 25 years
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Paul Ducklin
Elvis, you might say, has left the building, but only to be transported from court to federal prison.
In this case, we’re referring to...
Scammers and rogue callers – can anything ever stop them?
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Paul Ducklin
Scam calls are a nuisance at best, because they’re intrusive, and a social and financial evil at worst, because they prey on those...
Uber and Rockstar – has a LAPSUS$ linchpin just been busted (again)?
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Paul Ducklin
The curious name LAPSUS$ made huge headlines in March 2022 as the nickname of a hacking gang, or, in unvarnished words, as the...
S3 Ep96: Zoom 0-day, AEPIC leak, Conti reward, heathcare security [Audio + Text]
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Paul Ducklin
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With Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski.
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US offers reward “up to $10 million” for information about the Conti gang
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Naked Security writer
You’ve almost certainly seen and heard the word Conti in the context of cybercrime.
Conti is the name of a well-known ransomware gang...
S3 Ep95: Slack leak, Github onslaught, and post-quantum crypto [Audio + Text]
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Paul Ducklin
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With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin.
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GitHub blighted by “researcher” who created thousands of malicious projects
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Paul Ducklin
Just over a year ago, we wrote about a “cybersecurity researcher” who posted almost 4000 pointlessly poisoned Python packages to the popular repository...
S3 Ep93: Office security, breach costs, and leisurely patches [Audio + Text]
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Paul Ducklin
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With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin.
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T-Mobile to cough up $500 million over 2021 data breach
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Paul Ducklin
Just under a year ago, the US arm of telecomms giant T-Mobile admitted to a data breach after personal information about its customers...
Last member of Gozi malware troika arrives in US for criminal trial
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Paul Ducklin
As the English translation of the Baroque-era German rendering of the Ancient Greek philosophical saying goes:
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet...
S3 Ep91: CodeRed, OpenSSL, Java bugs and Office macros [Podcast + Transcript]
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Paul Ducklin
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With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin.
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