The United Kingdom and France are to jointly host a diplomatic conference at Lancaster House in London this week to launch a new international agreement addressing “the proliferation of commercial cyber intrusion tools.” According to the Foreign Office, 35 nations will be represented at the conference, alongside “big tech leaders, legal experts, and human rights […]
Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. 33-year-old Aleksandr Ermakov allegedly stole and leaked the Medibank data while working with one of Russia’s most destructive ransomware groups, […]
Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific , Governance & Risk Management Voluntary Rules Will Set Baseline Security Requirement for Software Vendors, Users Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 24, 2024 Image: Shutterstock The U.K. government is mulling the rollout of a voluntary set of rules urging software vendors to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has allegedly fallen victim to a massive data breach. The Saudi Foreign Affairs data breach purportedly exposed the personal information of more than 1.4 million employees affiliated with the ministry. In order to verify the claim of a data breach in Saudi Foreign Affairs, […]
New rules in the United Kingdom could see victims of romance and investment scams reimbursed by the banks involved in sending and receiving fraudulent payments in a radical change to who is liable for these losses. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) said the new reimbursement requirement would come into force in October 2024, and would […]
Dec 21, 2023NewsroomDark Web / Cybercrime German law enforcement has announced the disruption of a dark web platform called Kingdom Market that specialized in the sales of narcotics and malware to “tens of thousands of users.” The exercise, which involved collaboration from authorities from the U.S., Switzerland, Moldova, and Ukraine, began on December 16, 2023, […]
German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2023 The German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market as a result of an international law enforcement operation. The Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the internet-crime combating unit of Frankfurt (ZIT), along with law enforcement agencies from […]
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific Parliamentary Committee Says UK Must Be More Aggressive Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 12, 2023 The U.K. Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy recommended that the government elevate ransomware as an issue. (Image: Shutterstock) A U.K. parliamentary committee investigating ransomware […]
The United Kingdom on Friday sanctioned 14 individuals and entities connected to Southeast Asia’s sprawling online scamming industry — the first such designation directly targeting the human traffickers who con workers into carrying out fraud. The sanctions announced by the Treasury target nine individuals with links to so-called “scam compounds” — where workers are held […]
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