crimes

These dangerous scammers don’t even bother to hide their crimes

by WIRED
May 4, 2024
I.T. Today
6 min read

Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know how they make money. But that’s not the case for the Yahoo Boys, a loose collective of young men in…

Hackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist

by Zack Whittaker
April 18, 2024
I.T. Today
3 min read

A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call…