The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions (CDS), from selling location data without consumers’ explicit consent to settle charges alleging that it sold precise geolocation data collected from hundreds of millions of mobile devices. […]
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British Scattered Spider hacker pleads guilty to crypto theft charges
A British man, believed to be the leader of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, has pleaded guilty in the United States to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. […]
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Europol Operation Targets Online Network Exploiting Minors
A yearlong international crackdown has led to 30 arrests tied to “The Com,” a decentralized cybercrime collective accused of targeting children and teenagers across digital platforms. Coordinated by Europol and involving law enforcement agencies from 28 countries, the operation — codenamed Project Compass — resulted in the arrest of 30 suspects, linked 179 additional individuals…
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters seeks women for vishing attacks
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLH) hacking collective has launched a recruitment push aimed specifically at women, offering cash payments for participating in voice-phishing (vishing) attacks. A few days ago, threat intelligence firm Dataminr detected posts on a public Telegram channel advertising roles for female callers willing to conduct social-engineering phone operations. SLH’s recruitment ad (Source:…
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SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks
The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. The group is said to be offering anywhere between…
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VIDEO: The Lustre Collective – How Three Veterans Are Betting That Open Source’s Quiet Giant Still Has Decades Ahead
With a combined century of experience, the founders of The Lustre Collective (TLC) are launching an independent company to steward the file system that powers the world’s fastest supercomputers and largest AI training clusters — and they’re doing it without venture capital.
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VIDEO: The Lustre Collective – How Three Veterans Are Betting That Open Source’s Quiet Giant Still Has Decades Ahead
With a combined century of experience, the founders of The Lustre Collective (TLC) are launching an independent company to steward the file system that powers the world’s fastest supercomputers and largest AI training clusters — and they’re doing it without venture capital.
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VIDEO: The Lustre Collective – How Three Veterans Are Betting That Open Source’s Quiet Giant Still Has Decades Ahead
With a combined century of experience, the founders of The Lustre Collective (TLC) are launching an independent company to steward the file system that powers the world’s fastest supercomputers and largest AI training clusters — and they’re doing it without venture capital.