by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation’s most sensitive computer networks. In 2016, Harris was hard at work on a mystifying incident in which intruders had somehow […]

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by Craig Silverman and Peter Elkind This article was originallly published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. It is republished with permission. Christy Browne was in a panic. The man on the phone said he was from the FBI. He warned her that drug traffickers had obtained her Social Security number and were using […]

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Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw on Friday confirmed police believe the criminal group behind the recent Medibank cyber attack is from Russia. Kershaw said their intelligence points to a “group of loosely affiliated cyber criminals who are likely responsible for past significant breaches in countries across the world.” Kershaw stopped short of naming any […]

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This article was first published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A new type of online fraud emanating from scam sweatshops in Southeast Asia is facing its first major crackdown. Cambodian authorities have stepped up raids on compounds […]

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This story was first published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. If you’re like most people, you’ve received a text or chat message in recent months from a stranger with an attractive profile photograph. It might open with a simple “Hi” or what seems like good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to […]

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This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist are facing beatings, food deprivation or worse. The ads on the Telegram messaging service’s White […]

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This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. On February 25, the day after Russia invaded Ukraine, a prolific ransomware gang called Conti made a proclamation on its dark website. It was an unusually political statement for a cybercrime organization: Conti pledged its “full support of Russian government” and said it […]

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The US Justice Department announced Monday that it had recovered more than half of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced the shutdown of a major US fuel network. “Today, we turned the tables on Darkside by going after the entire ecosystem that fuels ransomware and digital […]

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