Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers who American officials and researchers fear could sow mayhem around next…
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US Man Pleads Guilty to Running $25 Million Bitcoin Laundering Scheme
A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to running a $25 million Bitcoin (BTC) money laundering scheme and selling methamphetamine. Possible life sentence News outlet…
Hong Kong Businesses Begin Adopting Bitcoin as a Form of Protest
The pro-democracy, anti-government protest movement in Hong Kong is spurring wider adoption of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC). Yahoo! Finance reported on Aug. 28 that…
Darknet Moderator Jailed for 11 Years
An American who was employed to moderate disputes on an illegal darknet marketplace has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Bryan Connor Herrell, of Aurora,…
Hacker Uses Porn To Lure Victims to Download Android Ransomware
A hacker has been using links to a porn app to trick users into installing a new Android ransomware strain. The ransomware, dubbed “Android/Filecoder.C” has been circulating…
Tesla worked with the FBI to block a million dollar ransomware attack
Earlier this week, the FBI arrested a 27-year-old Russian citizen for attempting to carry out a ransomware attack against a US company. It turns out that…
Cyberattacks force Louisiana to declare state of emergency
Ransomware and cyberattacks continue to multiply and hit local governments in a scary, escalating pattern such that, now for the second time since 2018, a…
A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks
Since January 2020, a mysterious threat actor has been adding servers to the Tor network in order to perform SSL stripping attacks on users accessing…
Florida teen arrested for orchestrating Twitter hack
In a press conference on Friday, US authorities announced they arrested the main suspect behind this month’s major Twitter hack and charged two other accomplices.…
US lawmakers troubled by Facebook’s Libra due to ‘pattern of failing to keep consumer data private’
US lawmakers in a hearing at the House Committee on Financial Services on Wednesday expressed widespread mistrust of Facebook’s cryptocurrency plan, saying the company’s attempt…