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Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and...
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26-year-old Abdellah Belmili faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly operating the marketplaces Market0Day and Spoxy.
Malware & Threats
Law enforcement and private partners took down 106 SocGholish C&C servers and domains as part of Operation Endgame.
Cybercrime
Law enforcement and tech companies disrupted infrastructure linked to scammers operating across Southeast Asia.
Cybercrime
Dutch authorities seized command-and-control servers tied to a botnet of infected computers, smartphones, and tablets that was allegedly used to power a residential proxy...
Application Security
The United States Department of Defense this week announced an expansion of the scope of its vulnerability disclosure program to include all of its...
Application Security
A task force attached to the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) has released set of recommendations to combat the ransomware scourge currently hitting...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
An FBI operation that gave law enforcement remote access to hundreds of computers to counter a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software...
Cybercrime
Roughly one million computers are getting rid of the Emotet malware after law enforcement agencies served them an update meant to trigger an uninstall...
Privacy
Facebook said Wednesday it had disabled accounts used by the Palestinian Authority's internal intelligence organisation to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political...
Cybercrime
The Justice Department is taking new aim at ransomware after a year that officials say was the most costly on record for the crippling...
Artificial Intelligence
Privacy
Mozilla this week released Firefox 88 in the stable channel with patches for a dozen vulnerabilities and with improved user privacy, obtained through isolating...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Civil liberties groups are asking the Supreme Court to give the public access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection,...
Cybercrime
U.S. authorities revealed this week that the FBI executed a court-authorized cyber operation to remove malicious web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange...
Application Security
China-linked cyber-espionage group Cycldek is showing increasing sophistication in a series of recent attacks targeting government and military entities in Vietnam, according to a...
Application Security
The open-source SecureDrop Workstation has undergone a security makeover after a third-party security audit flagged multiple problems, including a high-risk bug that could allow...
Cybercrime
An Israeli national has pleaded guilty to his role in operating DeepDotWeb (DDW), a website that functioned as a gateway to various Dark Web...
Application Security
A North Korean government-backed APT group has been caught using a fake pen-testing company and a range of sock puppet social media accounts in...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The U.S. Cyber Command conducted more than two dozen operations aimed at thwarting interference in last November’s presidential election, the general who leads the...
Data Protection
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week published an alert to warn of the fact that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor...
Tracking & Law Enforcement
A former CIA employee cannot get espionage charges against him dismissed on the grounds that there weren’t enough Hispanic or Black individuals on the...
Cybercrime
Taking Down Dark Web Sites May Cause Headache for Both the Bad Guys and the Good Guys
Application Security
Adobe has released an urgent patch for a potentially dangerous security vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion, the platform used for building and deploying mobile and...
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