I mean, if you want to get caught committing a crime, please do wear your Fitbit. That’s what a Florida woman learned when she told police she’d been assaulted in March — only to have them examine her Fitbit and discover that the truth was a lot uglier and more awkward. Read more…
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Tip of the Day: Don’t Commit a Crime While Wearing a Fitbit
An anonymous reader writes: Trustwave released a new report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends. According to their findings, attackers receive an estimated 1, 425 percent return on investment for exploit kit and ransomware schemes ($84, 100 net revenue for each $5, 900 investment). Retail was the most compromised industry making up 43 percent of investigations followed by food and beverage (13 percent) and hospitality (12 percent). Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment
The Pirate Bay will probably never be the darling of any government; we’ve seen various Pirate Bay domains cracked down on, and the arrests of site founders. An anonymous reader writes now with the news reported this morning by TorrentFreak that: the Stockholm District Court has ordered two key domains owned by The Pirate Bay to be seized. While the ruling means that the site will lose its famous ThePirateBay.se domain, don’t expect the site to simply disappear. TPB informs TorrentFreak that they have plenty more domains left in store. From the point of view of the down-crackers, It’s a hard problem, particularly when it’s easy for people to spin up their own instances of the site. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains
An anonymous reader writes: Taking advantage of lazy security, new research says Anonymous hacktivists (among other groups) hijacked thousands of routers using remote access and default login credentials. “‘For perpetrators, this is like shooting fish in a barrel, which makes each of the scans that much more effective, ‘ the report explains. ‘Using this botnet also enables perpetrators to execute distributed scans, improving their chances against commonplace blacklisting, rate-limiting and reputation-based defense mechanisms.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Anonymous Accused of Running a Botnet Using Thousands of Hacked Home Routers
citpyrc writes: TeslaCrypt, the latest-and-greatest ransomware branch off of the CryptoWall family, claims to the unwitting user that his/her documents are encrypted with “a unique public key generated for this computer”. This coudn’t be farther from truth. In actuality, the developers of this malware appear to have been lazy and implemented encryption using symmetric AES256 with a decryption key generated on the user’s machine. If any of your machines are afflicted, Talos has developed a tool that can be used to generate the user’s machine’s symmetric key and decrypt all of the ransomed files. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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TeslaCrypt Isn’t All That Cryptic
If you or someone you love has been hijacked by Coinvault ransomware — malware that encrypts your data and won’t decrypt it unless you transfer Bitcoin to criminals — Kaspersky may be able to help you ( via Hacker News )
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New submitter dfsmith writes: Apparently the “Flash Crash” of the stock market in May 2010 was perpetrated by a futures trader in the UK. The US Justice Department alleges that he used a “dynamic layering scheme” of large-volume sell orders to confuse other buyers, hence winning big in his futures trades. “By allegedly placing multiple, simultaneous, large-volume sell orders at different price points—a technique known as ‘layering’—Sarao created the appearance of substantial supply in the market. As part of the scheme, Sarao allegedly modified these orders frequently so that they remained close to the market price, and typically canceled the orders without executing them. When prices fell as a result of this activity, Sarao allegedly sold futures contracts only to buy them back at a lower price. Conversely, when the market moved back upward as the market activity ceased, Sarao allegedly bought contracts only to sell them at a higher price.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Futures Trader Arrested For Causing 2010 ‘Flash Crash’
Bruce66423 writes: A fraudster used a mobile phone while inside a UK prison to email the prison a notice for him to be released. The prison staff then released him. The domain was registered in the name of the police officer investigating him, and its address was the court building. The inmate was in prison for fraud — he was originally convicted after calling several banks and getting them to send him upwards of £1.8 million. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison
blindbat writes While back home in the U.S., a man working in the United Arab Emirates posted negative comments about the company he worked for. Upon returning to the country to resign, he was arrested and now faces up to a year in prison under their strict “cyber slander” laws designed to protect reputation. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Flying drones inside burning buildings while looking for disaster survivors is incredibly hard, but it’s also one of the most promising applications of the machines. That’s why the Gimball search and rescue drone, billed as the world’s first collision-proof drone, was just awarded $1 million in the United Arab Emirates’ Drones for Good competition. Read more…
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