CYBERCRIME

The UN Human Rights Council say that abolishing gender-based violence will help improve the representation of women in leading positions.

BBC, British Airways and other firms face potential data breaches as the Clop ransomware group exploits a vulnerability in popular file transfer software.

Over a third of the organisations across the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI) anticipate a rise in cybercrime as a direct result of the current economic crisis.

British officials are sounding the alarm over the widespread abuse of surveillance software and hackers-for-hire.

The UK government's cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine.

Britain named Anne Keast-Butler as the first female director of its intelligence communications agency GCHQ on Tuesday, tasked with protecting the country from terrorists, cyber-criminals and malign foreign powers.

Police arrested 119 people in an international operation led by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dutch police.

Identifying fraudulent attacks was easier before chatbots arrived since phishing emails usually contained grammar and spelling mistakes.

ChatGPT's ability to generate code can be utilised for data breaches, leaving businesses vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The owner of China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato was arrested in Miami on Wednesday, along with five associates in Europe

A US cybersecurity firm has claimed that the Chinese government tried to flood social media with spam content.

A New York couple accused of laundering $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the 2016 hack of digital currency exchange Bitfinex are still negotiating a possible plea deal while reviewing more than 1.1 gigabytes of evidence in the case, prosecutors said.

To date, reports show that over 15 billion user credentials sourced from more than 100,000 security breaches are now being distributed online.

This was reported by Scam Alert alongside Whale Alert via its new 'crime reporting, tracking and analysis' platform.

With a lot of people staying indoors, internet usage is at an all-time high since the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak.

Some of the previous personalities that were used by scammers included Lord Sugar, Richard Branson, and Bill Gates.

More than 33,000 people have been infected by the coronavirus in the US, and 416 have died.

A joint report by the US National Security Agency and UK's National Cyber Security Centre highlights the issue.

Earlier in April, cybercriminals hacked into Microsoft Outlook emails. The hackers reportedly also stole from victims' cryptocurrency accounts.

European embassies in Nepal, Kenya, Guyana, Italy, Lebanon, Liberia and Bermuda were targeted by the attackers.

If a company or individual is powerful, they are vulnerable to a dangerous cyber attack, and that's where we come in.