A Google security engineer was arrested in New York and charged with crimes related to bets he allegedly placed on Polymarket using confidential information he pulled from Google systems, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen who lives in Switzerland, is accused of placing multiple trades on the prediction marketplace last…
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Microsoft Takes Down Fox Tempest for Providing Ransomware-Enabling Signing Tool
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has taken down the infrastructure of Fox Tempest, a prolific cybercrime-enabling threat group
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FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year
U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. […]
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Trio sentenced for facilitating North Korean IT worker scheme from their homes
Three American men were sentenced Friday for crimes they committed in furtherance of North Korea’s vast scheme to get operatives hired at U.S. companies, the Justice Department said. The trio — Audricus Phagnasay, 25, Jason Salazar, 30, and Alexander Paul Travis, 35 — pleaded guilty in November to wire fraud conspiracy for providing U.S. identities…
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North Carolina tech worker found guilty of insider attack netting $2.5M ransom
A 27-year-old North Carolina man was found guilty of six counts of extortion for a series of crimes he committed while working as a data analyst contractor for a D.C.-based international technology company, the Justice Department said Thursday. Cameron Nicholas Curry, also known as “Loot,” stole a trove of corporate data, including sensitive employee and…