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Cocospy stalkerware apps go offline after data breach

Posted on May 19, 2025 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A trio of phone surveillance apps, which was caught spying on millions of people’s phones earlier this year, has gone offline. Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie were three near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that allowed the person planting one of the apps on a target’s phone access to their personal data — including their messages, photos,…

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Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider’s fake help-desk calls: ‘Those guys are good’

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Dissent

Jessica Lyons reports: The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts. But the caller wasn’t actually a company employee. He was a Scattered Spider criminal trying to break into the retailer’s systems – and he was really good, according to Jon…

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Former Sussex Police officer facing trial for rape charged with 18 further offences relating to computer misuse

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Dissent

Matt Pole reports: A former Sussex Police officer, currently facing trial for rape and sexual assault charges following an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation, has been charged with 18 further criminal offences. The IOPC said ex-PC Christopher Mallet, 40, who was a police constable based at Horsham, is due to appear at Guildford…

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Beach mansion, Benz and Bitcoin worth $4.5m seized from League of Legends hacker Shane Stephen Duffy

Posted on May 18, 2025May 19, 2025 by Dissent

Demi Huang reports: Luxury assets worth more than $4.5 million have been forfeited after being linked to a previously convicted Queensland hacker. The haul, including a beachfront mansion, a 2019 black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and nearly 25 Bitcoin, was seized in April following a years-long investigation into stolen cryptocurrency and cyber hacking. The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) secured the…

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Fresno County fell victim to $1.6M phishing scam in 2020. One suspected has been arrested, another has been indicted.

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Dissent

Gabriel Dillard reports: Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday with six counts of wire fraud stemming from a $1.6 million phishing scheme against the County of Fresno. Jafaar September Nyangoro, 52, of Franklin, Tennessee, and Peter Bah Acha, 45 of Berlin, Germany, are accused of secretly gaining control of an email…

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Ransomware Attack on ADP Partner Exposes Broadcom Employee Data

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Dissent

Tim Toole reports: A ransomware attack on Business Systems House (BSH), a Middle Eastern partner of payroll provider ADP, led to Broadcom employee data theft in September 2024. Data was leaked online in December, but Broadcom wasn’t informed until May 2025. The El Dorado ransomware group claimed responsibility for the breach, which occurred as Broadcom…

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