A North Carolina man who engaged in a series of cyber and swatting attacks, including sending bogus threats of shootings and bombings to schools in the United States and United Kingdom, was sentenced today to 95 months in federal prison. Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 22, whose online aliases included “WantedbyFeds” and “Hacker_R_US,” of Winston-Salem, North Carolina,…
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Coming up soon: Supreme Court hears CFAA case
Oral argument in Van Buren v. United States is scheduled for 11:00 am Eastern. It will air on C-Span. Info here. Case preview on SCOTUSblog here.
Happy Thanksgiving
2020 has been so brutal that it feels almost risky to wish people a Happy Thanksgiving because I know that there are families who have lost loved ones this year and other families who are heeding advice not to travel or to gather in the large get-togethers you might otherwise enjoy on this holiday….
Google is adding end-to-end encryption to its Android Messages app
Steve Ranger reports: Google is upping the security for at least some of the conversations on its Messages app by adding end-to-end encryption. It will be rolling out end-to-end encryption on Messages, starting with one-on-one conversations between people using the Rich Communication Services-based version of the app. Read more on ZDNet.
Romanian Duo Arrested For Running Malware Encryption Service To Bypass Antivirus Software
Two Romanian suspects have been arrested yesterday for allegedly running the CyberSeal and Dataprotector crypting services to evade antivirus software detection. These services have been purchased by more than 1560 criminals and used for crypting several different type of malware, including Remote Access Trojans, information stealers and ransomware. The pair also operated the Cyberscan service…
New Report Finds That Criminals Leverage AI for Malicious Use – And It’s Not Just Deep Fakes
A press release from Europol: Europol, UNICRI and Trend Micro uncover current and future threats of AI and how to combat them A jointly developed new report by Europol, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and Trend Micro looking into current and predicted criminal uses of artificial intelligence (AI) was released…