Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2020
The journalist Livio Varriale sheds the light on a story about pedophilia that starts from afar and still today finds its roots in the darker side of the internet. Today, I’m going to tell you a horrible story that dwells on the dark web, a story about pedophilia that starts from afar and still today […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2019
Facebook informed its employees that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. On Friday, Facebook announced that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. According to the company, a thief stole unencrypted hard drives containing banking data belonging to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2019
The Sweden government is going to authorize the use of spyware on suspects’ devices to spy on their communications and track them. S The Sweden government is going to authorize law enforcement agencies into using spyware to spy on suspects’ devices, the malicious code allows agents to read encrypted communications, to track their movements, exfiltrate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2019
The European authorities announced to have dismantled Europe’s second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web. A joint operation conducted by The Portuguese Judicial Police (Polícia Judiciária) along with with the Europol allowed dismantling Europe’s second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web. The authorities announced the arrest of five members of the counterfeit currency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2018
Thieves steal 600 powerful computers in a huge heist in Iceland with the intent to use them for mining Bitcoin. Cyber criminal organization continue to show a great interest in cryptocurrencies, the number of crimes against cryptocurrency industry is on the rise. News of the day is that crooks have stolen 600 powerful computers from data centers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2017
The Dutch police decrypted a number of PGP messages sent by crooks through their BlackBerry mobile devices for the criminal investigation on Ennetcom. PGP is an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can be used to sign emails, files, documents, or disk partitions. On April 2016, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2017
The money transfer leader company Western Union has agreed to forfeit $586 million to settle fraud charges and admitted it facilitated scammers. Money transfer leader company Western Union has admitted to facilitating wire fraud and it has agreed to pay $586 million to settle fraud charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice. The services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2017
For the first time the England the Office for National Statistics (ONS) includes data related hacking and fraud, and findings are shocking. Cyber criminal activities in England and Wales have shown a spike in the last twelve months, Cyber frauds and computer misuse offences are most common crimes of this worrisome trend. According to the report “Crime in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2016
The Dutch Police has seized two servers belonging to Switzerland-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider Perfect Privacy, as part of an investigation. Recently, two European countries, France and Germany, have declared war against encryption with an objective to force major technology companies to build encryption backdoors in their secure messaging services. The fight to the cybercrime is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2016
The Dutch police in an international effort with Canadian authorities seized the Ennetcom encrypted communication network used by 19,000 users. Another success of the Dutch law enforcement against the cybercrime. The police arrested the owner of Ennetcom, a provider of encrypted communications with more than 19,000 customers. Prosecutors suspect he was using the business to manage […]
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