Cybercrime

The rapid growth of digital fraud by consumers working with dark web-based gangs is a symptom of fraud's accessibility and democratization among everyday internet users.

Digital Forensics Corporation is waging war to protect and educate the public about a rapidly growing trend in cybercrime dubbed sextortion, where online predators target teens and young adults with threats to expose sensitive personal photos.

The new policy urges more mandates on the firms that control most of the nation's digital infrastructure. It also preaches an expanded government role to disrupt hackers and state-sponsored entities.

U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Drew Wade said in comments to news outlets on Feb. 27 that the agency received a ransomware demand and found a data exfiltration event that affected the agency's stand-alone computer system.

Retailers who want to avoid losing revenue and having customers defrauded need to understand how fraud is happening now. Let's explore how to cope with these prevalent tactics being used by fraudsters.

Copycat websites increasingly surface on the web stealing customers’ cash and damaging e-tailers’ branding and trustworthy reputations. Until now, most brands tolerated the threat but seemed powerless to prevent it; that scenario may be starting to change. Digital perpetrators offer bogu...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks continued to rise in November. A prime target was the United States, with 1,543 attacks. While "as a service" offerings have made ransomware a low-effort, low-risk option for generating criminal gains.

A new analysis of data from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reveals that Nevada has more cybercrime victims than any state in the union by a large margin.

Although small businesses lack the resources large enterprises enjoy to defend themselves online, SMBs can avoid becoming cybercrime victims by following these proven, safe computing practices.