Category: crime
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FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report
FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report The 2025 Internet Crime Report was published a few weeks ago, but I only just saw it. Lots of interesting statistics. Press release. News articles. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police
Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police 404 Media has a story about Proton Mail giving subscriber data to the Swiss government, who passed the information to the FBI. It’s metadata—payment information related to a particular account—but still important knowledge. This sort of thing happens, even to privacy-centric companies like Proton Mail. Bruce Schneier…
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First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies
First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies An Arizona woman was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for her role helping North Korean workers infiltrate US companies by pretending to be US workers. From an article: According to court documents, Chapman hosted the North Korean IT workers’ computers in her own…
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Gift Card Fraud
Gift Card Fraud It’s becoming an organized crime tactic: Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record the card numbers and PINs or replace them with a new barcode. The crooks then repair the packaging, return to a store and place the…