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The US wants to extradite a British man accused of stealing $8.5 million of crypto from an American citizen
The Brit facing extradition is accused of aiding a hacking group called "The Community" when he was…
Carla Mozée
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Sophos exposes 167 fake cryptocurrency and trading apps used by hackers to steal money
For example, researchers identified an instance in which an attacker found a victim on a datin…
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Man pleads guilty to hacking Elon Musk's and Joe Biden's Twitter accounts in bitcoin scam
Joseph James O'Connor was part of a group that hijacked several high-profile Twitter accounts in 20…
Pete Syme
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Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein: All the latest on the NYC couple arrested over alleged Bitfinex $4.5B bitcoin-laundering plot
Everything to know about the husband and wife techies that have been arrested and accused of launde…
Rob Price,Becky Peterson
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The 'Game of Thrones' hackers are asking for millions of dollars worth of bitcoin
"If you look at reports such as this recent one from the Council of the European Union, you will se…
Frank Chaparro
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There's A Bitcoin Revolution Happening In This Crazy Hacker Monastery
The old textile factory complex, called Calafou, is referred to as a "postcapitalist ecoindustrial …
Natasha Bertrand
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The hackers behind the devastating WannaCry cyberattack are moving their money
In May, the malware began spreading, causing chaos at hospitals, logistics firms, and businesses in…
Rob Price
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Culprits behind the Twitter hack that ground the site to a halt may include a 21-year-old British man, new evidence shows
In the days leading up to the heist, one person demonstrated on Twitter and in hacker forums that t…
Aaron Holmes
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A model who says she was kidnapped says auctions for women like her go for $300,000 worth of bitcoin
Chloe Ayling, a British glamor model, says she was tricked into going to Italy last month for a pho…
Frank Chaparro
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'Doctor Who' Star Matt Smith Is The Latest Victim Of The Celebrity iCloud Hackers
The only other male celebrity implicated in the iCloud hack has been Nick Hogan. It's claimed that …
James Cook
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New details emerge in the Twitter hack that took over more than 100 accounts last week, including those of Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Elon Musk
Despite initial theories that the attack was the work of sophisticated state actors, it appears the…
Aaron Holmes
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10 things you need to know before the opening bell
India's richest man's plan to revolutionize its telecom industry with cheap data seems to be workin…
Jonathan Garber
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The 15-year-old boy arrested over the TalkTalk hack has been released on bail
A spokesperson for the Police Service of Northern Ireland told Sky News that "the investigation bei…
Rob Price
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Someone is trying to take entire countries offline and cybersecurity experts say 'it's a matter of time because it's really easy'
The principle behind Stuxnet was simple: Like all software viruses, it copied and sent itself to as…
Jim Edwards
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10 things in tech you need to know today
9. The hacker who targeted children's toy company VTech was able to obtain photos and chatlogs from…
Rob Price
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'The ultimate cyberweapon for espionage': 'The 'Petya' cyberattack is exploiting a powerful NSA tool
A variation of EternalBlue was first used in May's WannaCry attack. The assault was stalled and the…
Sonam Sheth
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5. Nikkei Inc. will use its $1.3 billion purchase of the Financial Times to build a global digital …
Cyrus Engineer,Cyrus Engineer
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TalkTalk says 'less than 1.2 million' customers' details were compromised by the hack
In a statement, TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding said: "Today we can confirm that the scale of attack was …
Rob Price
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Election Day will be a fiasco unless we act now. Like, right now.
State governments and the USPS are worried about being overwhelmed by mail-in ballots. Trump is und…
David Plotz,Linette Lopez,Ant…
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'They sow chaos wherever they can': A familiar actor may be behind the massive 'Petya' cyberattack
In 2015, a massive cyberattack leveled against the country's power grid cut electricity to almost 2…