Cybercrime includes illegal digital activity such as hacking, fraud, and extortion, posing risks to data, systems, finances, and public safety.
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Cybercrime involves illegal activities conducted using computers or networks, such as hacking, identity theft, financial fraud, and distribution of malware. These crimes exploit vulnerabilities in software, hardware, or human behavior to gain unauthorized access, steal data, or disrupt services. Understanding the methods and motives behind cybercrime is essential for identifying relevant threats and attack vectors.
For security practitioners, cybercrime highlights the importance of protecting critical systems against exploitation through strong access controls, timely patching of vulnerabilities, and user awareness training to prevent social engineering attacks. Monitoring for indicators of compromise and analyzing threat intelligence related to cybercriminal tactics can improve detection and mitigation efforts. Effective defense requires a focus on both technical safeguards and operational readiness to respond to evolving criminal techniques.
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Improved institutional safeguards and stricter regulations have pushed the burdens of protection and risk reduction on to Australian businesses.
With tens of billions of dollars flowing into regional economies from cybercrime, scam centers continue to flourish, despite international and law-enforcement efforts.
Persistent cybercrime, social engineering, and infrastructure threats continue to plague the FIFA 2026 World Cup across the US, Canada, and Mexico.
SocGholish uses traffic distribution systems (TDSs) to provide initial access into victims' networks for cybercrime groups such as the notorious Evil Corp.
North Korea's gross domestic product (GDP) has grown, in part because of the nation's state-sponsored cybercrime groups, which target financial firms and other businesses.
One of the world's most diverse, least-focused cybercrime groups is enlarging its footprint beyond East Asia.
TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind later waves of the Shai-Hulud worm, has done significant damage to the open source ecosystem. But it's not necessarily due to skill alone.
While the numbers are modest, the crackdown on cybercrime involved 13 countries in the MENA region, the largest law enforcement collaboration to date.
Microsoft says the financially motivated cybercrime group has exploited n-day and zero-day vulnerabilities in campaigns predicated on speed.
A new service on the cybercrime market provides automated capabilities to create persistent information-stealing social engineering attacks.
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 15: Interpol relied on Will Thomas and team to help break up a sprawling cybercrime ring, leading to the arrest of 574 suspects, the recovery of more than $3 million, and the decryption of six malware variants. Here's his story.
In the latest operation targeting cybercrime groups, African law enforcement agencies cooperated with Interpol and cybersecurity firms to recover more than $4.3 million.
Following its attacks on Salesforce instances last year, members of the cybercrime group have broadened their targeting and gotten more aggressive with extortion tactics.
RedVDS, a cybercrime-as-a-service operation that has stolen millions from victims, lost two domains to a law enforcement operation supported by Microsoft.
Interpol said law enforcement across 19 countries made 574 arrests and recovered $3 million, against a backdrop of spiraling cybercrime in the region, including business email compromise, digital extortion, and ransomware schemes.
It's the best deal going in cybercrime: fully compromised websites belonging to high-value organizations, for just a couple hundred bucks each.
The agreement aims to help law enforcement prosecute cross-border cybercrime, but the final treaty could allow unchecked surveillance and human-rights abuses, critics say; and, it includes no protection for pen-testers.
A $14 billion seizure by US investigators presents a warning for cybercriminals' reliance on bitcoin but is still a positive development for the cryptocurrency industry.
After a particularly gruesome murder, South Korea issues "code black" travel ban for several regions in Cambodia, while other nations urge more raids.
The campaign is the latest by BatShadow, one of a growing number of cybercrime groups operating out of Vietnam.