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Banking, Cybercrime, department of justice, Kronos, Las Vegas, Malware, Marcus Hutchins, ransomware, security, Social Engineering, spyware

Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty, ending his legal case – TechCrunch

Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins has pleaded guilty to two counts of creating and selling a powerful banking malware, ending a…

email, European Union, mail, Microsoft, microsoft windows, phishing, security, Social Engineering, spamming, TC, webmail

Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts – TechCrunch

On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of…

Advertising Tech, Europe, Facebook, fraud, Google, Lawsuit, Martin Lewis, Online Advertising, online platforms, Social, Social Engineering, United Kingdom, Yahoo

Facebook agrees to do more to tackle scam ads after celebrity defamation lawsuit – TechCrunch

Facebook has agreed to plough more resource into combating the use of its advertising platform by scammers, saying it will…

apps, Bitcoin, blockchain network, computing, Currency, email, Federal Bureau of Investigation, fraud, Internet, Social Engineering, TC

Scammers are sending bomb scares to nab BTC – TechCrunch

A new scam is making the rounds that promises to disrupt countless offices and schools. The scam is simple: the…

Advertising Tech, deception, Digital Media, Facebook, fake news, internet culture, junk, Media Literacy, online disinformation, Oxford Internet Institute, Propaganda, Social, Social Engineering, Social Media, social media platforms, United States

Tool up for the midterms with this Facebook junk news aggregator – TechCrunch

With the US midterms fast approaching purveyors of online disinformation are very busy indeed spreading their hyper-partisan junk on Facebook…

Associated Press, blockchain, civil, communication, consensys, Digital Media, disinformation, factmata, fake news, internet culture, jarrod dicker, Journalism, Matthew Iles, Media, News, Social Engineering, Splice, TC, The Washington Post, Userfeeds

Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media – TechCrunch

Civil, the two-year-old crypto startup that wants to save the journalism industry by leveraging the blockchain and cryptoeconomics, has partnered…

Crime, Cybercrime, democratic national committee, fancy bear, phishing, russia, Social Engineering, TC, Wikileaks

Russian hackers slipped up in attempt to hack senator – TechCrunch

Hackers that targeted a Democratic senator up for reelection this year may have left behind clues in their attack that…

2018 Midterm Elections, Congress, Crime, Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare, fancy bear, Government, identity theft, Josh Hawley, Microsoft, phishing, Putin, russia, Russian Election Interference, security, Social Engineering, spamming, U.S. Senate, Vice President

Russian hackers already targeted a Missouri senator up for reelection in 2018 – TechCrunch

A Democratic senator seeking reelection this fall appears to be the first identifiable target of Russian hacking in the 2018…

Buzz, cryptography, enigma machine, fiction, ICO, Social Engineering, TC

Enigma will refund ICO investors who lost $500,000 to scammers

Enigma, the investment platform that is preparing for an ICO next month, confirmed today that it will refund members of…

Buzz, computing, deception, Donald Trump, Europe, Facebook, fake news, internet culture, Media, Social, Social Engineering, Software, TC

Storyzy is a quote verifier that wants to skewer fake news

On the Internet no-one knows you’re a dog. And no-one knows whether that ‘fact’ you’re reading — say, about President…