Hacker News
Hacker News from The AEGIS Alliance covers breaches, exploits, encryption, and the politics of cybersecurity. Technical reporting for readers who care how networks—and the people who break them—reshape privacy.
Phantom Hacker Crews Still Talk Victims Into Wiring Away Their Savings as Tech-Support Fraud Losses Clear $2.1 Billion
October 31, 2025
Phantom Hacker Crews Still Talk Victims Into Wiring Away Their Savings as Tech-Support Fraud Losses Clear $2.1 Billion
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report puts tech-support fraud losses above $2.1 billion. The Phantom Hacker scam is the three-call version that talks victims into wiring away their own savings.
Anonymous-Linked Prisoner Hacked Romania’s Inmate System, Cut Sentences, and Exposed a Password Nobody Rotated
October 25, 2025
Anonymous-Linked Prisoner Hacked Romania’s Inmate System, Cut Sentences, and Exposed a Password Nobody Rotated
Union officials named Cristic Nicu Aurel Z. as the Târgu Jiu inmate who used a stale director password to alter sentences and accounts for 15 prisoners. No criminal judgment has…
Montreal Call Floors, a Panama Collector, and Seven New Names Inside Vermont’s $21 Million Grandparent Scam Case
March 6, 2025
Montreal Call Floors, a Panama Collector, and Seven New Names Inside Vermont’s $21 Million Grandparent Scam Case
Vermont charged 25 Canadians in a $21 million grandparent scam. Seven more were arrested later, while a collector was sentenced to 15 and a half years.
U.S. and European Sanctions Hit Beijing’s Integrity Technology Group for Supplying Flax Typhoon’s Hacking Infrastructure
January 4, 2025
U.S. and European Sanctions Hit Beijing’s Integrity Technology Group for Supplying Flax Typhoon’s Hacking Infrastructure
OFAC sanctioned Integrity Technology Group in January 2025. The European Union listed the same Beijing firm in March 2026 over Flax Typhoon's device compromises.
A Stolen BeyondTrust Key Opened U.S. Treasury Workstations Before OFAC Sanctioned Shanghai Operator Yin Kecheng
December 30, 2024
A Stolen BeyondTrust Key Opened U.S. Treasury Workstations Before OFAC Sanctioned Shanghai Operator Yin Kecheng
Treasury told Congress a stolen BeyondTrust remote-support key reached Departmental Offices machines. OFAC later sanctioned Yin Kecheng. Salt Typhoon was a separate campaign.
Newark Indicted Curitiba’s Junior Barros De Oliveira for a $3.2 Million Bitcoin Extortion That Brazil’s Constitution Will Not Extradite
December 26, 2024
Newark Indicted Curitiba’s Junior Barros De Oliveira for a $3.2 Million Bitcoin Extortion That Brazil’s Constitution Will Not Extradite
A Newark indictment unsealed December 23, 2024, charges Junior Barros De Oliveira of Curitiba with threatening to leak about 300,000 customer records unless he was paid about $3.2 million in…
NGate’s HandyPay Clone and a 13-Minute WindRelay Call Show How NFC Relays Empty Contactless Cards
August 25, 2024
NGate’s HandyPay Clone and a 13-Minute WindRelay Call Show How NFC Relays Empty Contactless Cards
NGate relayed contactless cards through Android phones in Czechia, then hid inside a trojanized HandyPay app in Brazil. Group-IB later documented WindRelay, planted during a 13-minute bank-scam call.
Fudan FM11RF08S Hotel And Office Cards Still Hide A Factory Backdoor, And Proxmark Guides Now Walk Attackers Through The Keys
August 22, 2024
Fudan FM11RF08S Hotel And Office Cards Still Hide A Factory Backdoor, And Proxmark Guides Now Walk Attackers Through The Keys
Shanghai Fudan's FM11RF08S MIFARE Classic cards carry the hardware backdoor key A396EFA4E24F, which dumps diversified hotel and office keys. A 2026 Proxmark manual recovered a live hotel card after automated…
Jareh Sebastian Dalke Tried to Sell NSA Secrets to an FBI Agent He Thought Was Russian and Got 262 Months
May 1, 2024
Jareh Sebastian Dalke Tried to Sell NSA Secrets to an FBI Agent He Thought Was Russian and Got 262 Months
Jareh Sebastian Dalke lasted weeks at the NSA, tried to sell classified files to an undercover FBI employee, and was sentenced to 262 months.
Eight of Nine Chinese Pinyin Keyboards Let Eavesdroppers Read What Nearly a Billion People Typed
April 25, 2024
Eight of Nine Chinese Pinyin Keyboards Let Eavesdroppers Read What Nearly a Billion People Typed
Citizen Lab found that eight of nine popular Chinese pinyin keyboards could leak keystrokes to a passive eavesdropper, exposing up to a billion users.