The S Group pyramid scheme operated for over three years in 2020, but ended with people having their accounts blocked due to “issues with cryptocurrency security audits.” Two alleged founders were arrested, 30 people were taken in for questioning, and the total damage amounted to $100 million.

Starting in February 2025, Google will begin using digital fingerprints to track users, creating unique profiles and collecting data that cannot be deleted. While the company claims the new methods will improve privacy, experts say they will make surveillance less transparent and harder for users to understand.

The attackers carried out a sophisticated attack on a Seattle fire chief using fake Google notifications and a call from an official Google Assistant number. The victim, convinced that the situation was genuine, handed over control of his account to the scammers. Hackers found a photo with a seed phrase for a crypto wallet in Gmail and withdrew all funds....

Fraudsters call potential victims, promising social benefits, and offer to install a malicious application that hides under the guise of State Services or a banking service. After launching the application, the user is asked to place the card on the phone and enter the PIN code. At this stage, the data from the card is read, and the attackers withdraw...

The scammers have scammed another shaggy guy, this time they managed to get to the holder through his partners, whose accounts in X they managed to hack. On their behalf, the victim was sent “instructions” on how to use the new version of Zoom, as well as the update file itself. When the mammoth launched the received software, about $1,000,000...

Victims are invited to an interview on the Willo platform, where they are asked questions about the crypto market and asked to record a video response. During this process, an error occurs that requires updating the microphone and camera drivers and restarting the browser. Following the instructions, users install a backdoor. The attack affects macOS, Windows and Linux operating systems.

A fired IT specialist from Moscow, who did not want to accept his dismissal, threw malware onto the computers of his former colleagues , which hacked all the files The software demanded 27,000,000 rubles to unlock the client database. It is not specified whether this amount was paid.

Two California residents have been arrested in Los Angeles and charged with defrauding investors of more than $22 million through the Rug Pull scheme. Gabriel Hay and Gavin Mayo launched projects like Vault of Gems and Faceless with big promises, but abandoned them after receiving funds. In addition to financial fraud, the defendants stalked a former participant in one of...

The initial step when considering data destruction is basically the same first step in data protection: Take time to understand what kind of data you’re working with. Policy around data classification is going to dictate certain aspects of how that data must be treated. Is it proprietary source code of your product? An employee’s laptop? A payroll server hard drive...

Amazon disclosed a data breach that exposed employee information after data was allegedly stolen during the May 2023 MOVEit attacks. The company said that the data was stolen from a third-party vendor. Amazon did not disclose the number of impacted employees. A threat actor using the handle Nam3L3ss leaked over 2.8 million records containing employee data on the hacking forum...