The Tor Project is attempting to assure users that the network is still safe after a recent investigative report warned that law enforcement from Germany and other countries are working together to deanonymize users through timing attacks.
Spanish law enforcement authorities have arrested two former employees of a nuclear power plant in connection with a cyberattack.
German police say illegal sales on the site amounted to at least £1bn a year
Fraudsters are trying to steal bank details with fake texts offering a Covid vaccine.
Hackers have livestreamed police raids on innocent households after hijacking their victims' smart home devices and making a hoax call to the authorities, the FBI has warned.
A document obtained by Motherboard provides more detail on the malware law enforcement deployed against Encrochat devices.
THE RISE OF the internet-connected home security camera has generally been a boon to police, as owners of these devices can (and frequently do) share footage with cops at the touch of a button. But according to a leaked FBI bulletin, law enforcement has discovered an ironic downside to ubiquitous privatized surveillance: The cameras are alerting residents when police show up to conduct searches.
Hackers break into websites, steal information, and then publish that data all the time, with other hackers or scammers then using it for their own ends. But breached data now has another customer: law enforcement. Some companies are selling government agencies access to data stolen from websites in the hope that it can generate investigative leads, with the data including passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and more.
In a joint Operation, recently, the Dutch and French law enforcement, along with the judicial authorities, affirmed that they have found EncroChat has encrypted chat networks in their joint investigation. Hundred of cybercriminals got arrested, as they have used these encrypted criminal networks, and the police have also investigated this case and announced that it is a global network of an encrypted chatting app that was utilized by various criminals.
Amazon has placed a moratorium on police use of its facial recognition platform – but a congressman asked if that extends to its Ring smart doorbell in a new inquiry.
Facial recognition technology is still misidentifying people at an alarming rate – even as it’s being used by police departments to make arrests. In fact, Paul Bischoff, consumer privacy expert with Comparitech, found that Amazon’s face recognition platform incorrectly misidentified more than 100 photos of US and UK lawmakers as criminals.
A collective that hosts leaked data in the public interests published BlueLeaks, a collection of hundreds of thousands of internal documents from police departments across the country.
