Nouvelles du Hacker

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.

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…

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.

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.

Treasury told Congress a stolen BeyondTrust remote-support key reached Departmental Offices machines. OFAC later sanctioned Yin Kecheng. Salt Typhoon was a separate campaign.

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 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.

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 lasted weeks at the NSA, tried to sell classified files to an undercover FBI employee, and was sentenced to 262 months.

Citizen Lab found that eight of nine popular Chinese pinyin keyboards could leak keystrokes to a passive eavesdropper, exposing up to a billion users.