Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime Prosecutors Seek 188-Month Sentence for Conor ‘Pompompurin’ Fitzpatrick David Perera (@daveperera) • September 16, 2025 The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. (Image: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock) Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the founder of the first iteration of the BreachForums cybercrime forum, received a three-year prison…
Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime Vastaamo Hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki Released While Awaiting Appeal Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 12, 2025 Aleksanteri Kivimäki in a Finnish courtroom on February 28, 2023 A Helsinki court has ordered the release of one of Finland’s most infamous hackers, Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki, pending the outcome…
Cybercrime as-a-service, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Governance & Risk Management FBI Takes Down Domains; Dutch Authorities Analyze Data to Identify Administrators and Users Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 1, 2025 Law enforcement officials indicated that VerifTools offered fake passports and U.S. driver’s license images for as low as $9.…
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime AI Agent Deceptively Purchases and Exposes Sensitive Data After Single Prompt Pooja Tikekar (@PoojaTikekar) • August 25, 2025 Image: Shutterstock Research reveals that AI agents designed for shopping and web browsing are particularly vulnerable to scams.…
Finance & Banking, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Fraud Risk Management Regulatory Actions Required to Combat Payment Scams, Says Fraud Expert Trace Fooshee By Suparna Goswami (gsuparna) • August 18, 2025 Trace Fooshee, Strategic Advisor, Datos Insights In contrast to the collaborative efforts seen in the UK and Australia to combat…
Read more on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency Fraud, and Fraud Management & Cybercrime. Breaking: Trump Signs Pro-Crypto Executive Order, Credix Disappears Post $4.5M Hack Written by Rashmi Ramesh (@rashmiramesh_) • August 14, 2025 Read more Image: Shutterstock This week’s cybersecurity roundup by Information Security Media Group highlights significant incidents in…
AI-Based Attacks, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Fraud Management & Cybercrime OpenAI CEO Asserts AI Surpasses Voice Recognition, While Experts Remain Skeptical Suparna Goswami (gsuparna) • August 6, 2025 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Image: U.S. Senate) OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman recently claimed that artificial intelligence has essentially “defeated” most current…
Topics: Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Incident & Breach Response Ukrainian Hackers Uncover Evidence of Child Abduction Amid Ongoing Cyber Threats Anviksha More ( AnvikshaMore) • August 7, 2025 Information Security Media Group provides a weekly overview of significant cybersecurity incidents globally. This week, notable events include the arrest of…
Surge in Cybercrime: Alarming Trends in Ransomware and Infostealer Attacks Recent research highlights a significant escalation in cybercrime activity throughout 2025, characterized by substantial increases across various types of threats. Notably, there has been a staggering 800% rise in credential theft attributed to information-stealing malware, defining identity theft as a…
