Paul Shakespeare’s attack on an 18-year-old woman in Cheltenham left her so traumatised she did not tell her familyA man has been jailed for raping a teenage woman more than three decades ago after he was arrested last year for an unconnected crime and…
北朝鮮のハッカー集団は、2021年だけで総額450億円相当もの仮想通貨を盗んでいた
北朝鮮のハッカーが2021年にハッキングによって盗んだ仮想通貨が、総額3.95億ドル（約451億円）相当にもなることが明らかになった。これらのハッカーはすべて北朝鮮政府のために働いているとみられ、仮想通貨の窃盗が最重要事項になっていると指摘されている。
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米テキサス州、パーキングメーターに偽の支払用 QR コードを貼り付ける詐欺
パーキングメーターに偽の支払いサイトへリンクする QR コードを貼り付ける、という詐欺が米テキサス州の複数の市で確認されているそうだ
(The Verge の記事、
Ars Technica の記事、
KXAN Austin の記事、
FOX 7 Austin の記事)。
サンアントニオ市警ではパーキングメーターで詐欺的 QR コードステッカーが見つかっていると 12 月に Twitter で注意喚起しており、オースティン市も今年に入ってプレスリリースで注意喚起した。ヒューストン市では詐欺的 QR…
Russia’s FSB ‘shuts down’ notorious REvil ransomware gang
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Friday that it has raided and shut down the operations of the notorious REvil ransomware gang. The unprecedented move — which will undoubtedly send a message to other ransomware groups operating out of the country — saw the Russian authorities conduct raids at 25 addresses across the […]
Finalsite ransomware attack forces 5,000 school websites offline
Finalsite, an internet software house that provides school districts with website design, hosting, and content management solutions, has been hit by a ransomware attack. Earlier this week, school districts whose websites are hosted by Finalsite discovered that they were no longer accessible or displayed errors. While at the time Finalsite blamed the issues on “performance difficulties” […]
40 People Arrested For Alleged Twitch Money Laundering Scheme
On Tuesday, Turkish police in eleven different provinces took forty suspects into custody for an alleged money laundering scam that used the Twitch streaming platform.Read more…
Four Lives review – truly damning TV about those who are meant to protect and serve
Stephen Merchant and Sheridan Smith star in the BBC’s mind-boggling story of the murders by serial killer and rapist Stephen Port … and the egregious police failures that followedWe’re getting to the point, surely, where television drama could be named…
After her conviction, let’s call Ghislaine Maxwell what she is – a sex trafficker, not a socialite | Joan Smith
The glamorous past of Epstein’s procurer might blind some to her shocking crimesFor years, she was described as a “socialite”, a word that conceals more than it explains. Socialites are almost always women from a wealthy if not an aristocratic backgrou…
‘He was not in a gang’: lives and deaths of 30 London teenage homicide victims
Most of young people were victims of knife crime and were killed by other teenagers London has recorded its highest ever level of teenage homicides in a single year after two boys were killed on Thursday.A 15-year-old was stabbed to death in a park in …
The year the tide turned on ransomware
This year was rife with ransomware. 2021 witnessed the attack on IT software company Kaseya that knocked 1,500 organizations offline, the CD Projekt Red hack that saw threat actors make off with source code for games including Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, and several high-profile attacks targeting big-name tech companies, from Olympus to Fujitsu and […]