The main danger of opiates is by no means neurotoxicity or a high risk of overdose. The key danger of this range of drugs is that they have an incredibly strong "craving" and a high risk of addiction.Why is there an addiction to them?First of all, much depends on the effect. For example, most opiate...
SIM-swapping scam victim who lost $24 million in crypto won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a 15-year-old scammer.According to court documents, Ellis Pinsky is ordered to pay $22 million in damages to fraud victim Michael Turpin. The fraud involved swapping a SIM card and stealing Turpin's cr...
Operators of new Venus ransomware hack into public remote desktop services to encrypt Windows devices.The Venus ransomware went live in mid-August 2022 and has been attacking victims around the world ever since. Venus was first spotted by security analyst linuxct, who claimed that the attackers gain...
The criminals were threatened with 20 years in prison for fraud, but the judges commuted the sentence.Eric Meiggs, 24, and Declan Harrington, 22, from Massachusetts, were sentenced on October 19 to 2 years in prison for massively stealing cryptocurrencies.According to the U.S. Department of Justice,...
One of the oldest banking trojans stops working in the field of banking and gets new ways of development.The Ursnif malware has "grown" from a banking trojan into a generic backdoor capable of delivering a payload, Mandiant researchers said. An updated and upgraded variant, discovered on June 23, 20...
Several countries, many apartments and dozens of deceived Germans - all this is the result of a large-scale attacker's scam.On October 6, Europol arrested a Croatian citizen in Tenerife, suspected of using a fake website to impersonate a Swiss investment company and defrauding 5 million euros.The 50...