All news on the topic: Cybercrime

One of the world’s largest AI models has said it blocked an attempt to develop biological weapons using its technology.

Anthropic said it has disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its AI models over the past eight months, including conventional weapons development, cyber operations, surveillance, and biological misuse.

Eine Betrügerbande mit russisch-belarussisch-ukrainischen Wurzeln, die IT-Fachkräfte einsetzt, täuscht seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt Unternehmen in ganz Europa, stiehlt Daten und behindert die Umsetzung kostspieliger Projekte.

A Singaporean man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in the US for organising one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts.

A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026.

Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever.

A suspected prankster faces an unappetising eight years in prison after hundreds of unwanted food deliveries were ordered to strangers’ homes. One particularly ambitious request called for 300 pizzas.

Singapore police are investigating 231 people suspected of acting as scammers or money mules in more than 721 fraud cases that caused about S$4.1 million (US$3.2 million) in losses, authorities said Thursday.

US prosecutors have expanded an eight-year-old hacking case tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, adding eight defendants and linking six of them to the 2017 HBO breach that included a $6 million Bitcoin extortion attempt.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, who has been linked to illegal online casinos and is wanted by Europol, has stepped up efforts in recent months to remove information about himself from the internet.

The ShipMonk leak tied thousands of crypto users to their delivery locations as violent crypto attacks and home invasions rise.

U.S. prosecutors have charged eight additional Iranians in an alleged state-linked hacking campaign that targeted universities, companies and government agencies worldwide.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, linked to illegal online casinos and wanted by Europol, has stepped up efforts to erase his digital footprint in recent months.

Police in the Indian state of Goa arrested seven people and summoned 24 others for questioning in connection with 40 cyber fraud cases that caused nearly $262,000 in losses.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, who has been linked to illegal online casinos and is wanted by Europol, has intensified efforts to scrub his digital footprint in recent months.

AI now powers more than half of reported cybercrimes across 26 African nations as phishing and mobile fraud transition into industrialized criminal enterprises, according to INTERPOL.

Scots schoolboys as young as 12 have been targeted online in a social media sextortion plot as police issued an urgent warning to parents.

U.S. prosecutors filed five civil-forfeiture complaints on July 21 seeking roughly $26.4 million in cryptocurrency traced through separate international fraud investigations.

As scammers and terrorists increasingly turn to crypto, a Canadian intelligence office is raising alarms about risks posed by an emerging industry offering discreet means to convert cryptocurrency to large sums of physical cash and vice versa.

A fugitive has been arrested in Thailand after hacking into a police database in an attempt to delete his criminal record, cyber-crime investigators said.

Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the Rocket delivery service, has emerged in connection with a major international fraud case involving tens of millions of euros, while reports linked to the investigation are increasingly disappearing from the public domain.

Cases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.

Two teenagers have been jailed for 11 years after a sophisticated hack that that paralysed Transport for London.

Two “experienced and talented hackers” forced Transport for London (TfL) to “pull the plug” on its systems at a cost of £29 million, a court has heard.