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Hacker group Mogilevich has claimed its alleged Epic Games breach was a hoax, with the group trying to scam other criminals. Last week, the self-titled ransomware group Magilevich claimed it had hacked Epic Games and had made off with close to 200GB of data including email addresses, passwords, payment information and source codes, with the data for sale. The Fortnite developer was quick to respond, telling VGC that is was investigating the claims but there was “zero evidence” the Moglievich’s claims were “legitimate”.…

 Over ₹10,300 crore were siphoned off from the country by cybercriminals since April 1, 2021, of which agencies managed to successfully block around ₹1,127 crore in the country, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) said Wednesday.Over 4.52 lakh cyber crime cases were reported on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) in 2021, which rose by 113.7 per cent in 2022, with 9.66 lakh cases being reported on the portal, CEO of I4C Rajesh Kumar told reporters in an interaction here. I4C is a body established…

Over Rs 10,300 crore were siphoned off from the country by cybercriminals since April 1, 2021, of which agencies managed to successfully block around Rs 1,127 crore in the country, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) said Wednesday. Over 4.52 lakh cyber crime cases were reported on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) in 2021, which rose by 113.7% in 2022, with 9.66 lakh cases being reported on the portal, director of I4C Rajesh Kumar told reporters in an interaction. I4C is a body established by the…

An individual at St Vincent’s connected to the investigation who was not authorised to speak publicly said investigators were still working to identify what data has been pilfered.“The investigation into the stolen data continues at pace,” they said. “The needle continues to move on the exact quantity of the data stolen. We are yet to find any personal information stolen as part of the hack, but this could very quickly change.“The investigation is highly complex. In other cybercrimes, criminals have deployed ransomware or…

 A 50-year-old tax consultant from Maharashtra's Thane district lost more than ₹11 lakh in a 'task fraud' wherein three cyber fraudsters, including two women, duped him under the pretext of providing part-time online jobs, police said. Based on the complaint lodged by the victim, a resident of Rambaug area of Kalyan, a case was registered at the Mahatma Phule Chowk police station under provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act, they said. "The accused were identified as Priya Sharma, Devi and Bharat. While Priya…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A very large percentage of South Africans who are released from prison end up being rearrested and being convicted for crimes again. The country has one of the highest recidivism rates in the world. Criminologist Casper Lӧtter sets out his findings in a recent paper on what can be learned from…

Although most of our clothes fold and crease with our bodies as we move, our shoes maintain the same shape and appearance pretty much all the time. With that fact in mind, scientists are now developing a method of catching criminals via shoe ID.The technology is being developed via a partnership between Britain's Staffordshire University and the West Yorkshire Police.For the system to work, police will require a video or photo of a masked criminal performing their dirty deed, recorded by CCTV cameras, a police bodycam, an…

The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep. Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were…

Illustration: Golden Dayz (Shutterstock)Can AI Help with Mental Health?Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the extinction of humans, invoking images of the Terminator movies. The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has even set up a summit to discuss AI safety.However, we have been using AI tools for a long time – from the algorithms used to recommend relevant products on shopping websites, to cars with technology that recognises…

Ransomware gang BlackCat has taken credit for a February breach wherein Reddit was the victim of a phishing attack. The gang, which says it has 80 gigabytes of company data, initially asked for $4.5 million in hush money to not leak the data but has since added a new demand: That Reddit reverse its controversial application programming interface (API) pricing policy changes that mean many of the site’s third-party app makers won’t be able to afford keeping their apps alive on the platform (via BleepingComputer).…