A Russian man in the US has pleaded guilty to plotting to extort money from the electric car company Tesla. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov is accused of offering an employee $1m (£721,000) to place ransomware in […]
Police have seized thousands of computers running one of the most dangerous hacking networks worldwide. The Emotet network obtains access to victims’ computers, via malicious email attachments, then sells it to criminals who install more […]
Hackers have stolen the data of a large cosmetic surgery chain and are threatening to publish patients’ before and after photos, among other details. The Hospital Group, which has a long list of celebrity endorsements, […]
US officials have warned that a sophisticated hacking campaign uncovered this week poses a “grave risk” to the government, critical infrastructure and the private sector. The US Treasury and commerce departments were among those attacked. […]
The Wisconsin Republican party has said hackers stole $2.3m (£1.7m) from its effort to support President Donald Trump’s re-election. The party contacted the FBI and agents are investigating the matter, Chairman Andrew Hitt said in […]
Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and faces extradition to the US where he has been charged with tax evasion. Prosecutors say he failed to file tax returns for four years, […]
Diners at the luxury Ritz hotel in London have been targeted by “extremely convincing” scammers who posed as hotel staff to steal payment card details. The scammers phoned people with exact details of their restaurant […]
EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers. It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details […]
At least a dozen supercomputers across Europe have shut down after cyber-attacks tried to take control of them. A pan-European supercomputing group says they seem to have tried to use the machines to mine cryptocurrency. […]
Scammers are sending 18 million hoax emails about Covid-19 to Gmail users every day, according to Google. The tech giant says the pandemic has led to an explosion of phishing attacks in which criminals try to trick […]
Copyright © 2023 | World Justice News
