Neowin News Feed for: Cybercriminal

Microsoft Teams becomes key witness in government database wipe crime

Usama Jawad — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:58:01 +0000

A bizarre Microsoft Teams mistake exposed conversations tied to a major government database deletion case. Read more...

US puts $10 million bounty on Russian hacker's head

Paul Hill — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:56:01 +0000

The US Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a prolific ransomware actor, Mikhail Matveev. The Department of State will also offer a $10 million reward for info that leads to his arrest. Read more...

Study: ChatGPT fails to beat humans at phishing mail scams, at least until GPT-4

Sayan Sen — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:48:05 +0000

A social experiment was conducted by a security research firm pitting humans against ChatGPT. This test simulated writing of phishing scam mail and human beings have emerged victorious, for now. Read more...

Hacker who commanded a 100,000+ strong bot army taken down by Ukrainian cops

Sayan Sen — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:04:01 +0000

A Ukraine-based hacker who created and coordinated various cyberattacks like DDoS, spamming, or brute-forcing, using his 100,000+ bots has been arrested today by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Read more...

Microsoft Teams fixes a security vulnerability that exploited GIFs to access a user's data

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:44:02 +0000

In a recent update, Microsoft Teams has fixed a vulnerability that could have allowed cybercriminals to obtain access to the target PC by sending a GIF that exploited the authtoken cookie. Read more...

Bitcoin's volatility is causing headaches for ransomware makers

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 22:30:01 +0000

The recent surge in Bitcoin's popularity, and the subsequent increase in the volatility of its value, transaction fees and processing times, are causing ransomware makers to look elsewhere. Read more...

Lack of cyber security professionals behind recent hacker attacks

Gabriel Nunes — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:44:01 +0000

Cyber crimes have made several headlines in 2017, rising to the top as the most feared crime in the United States. One of the main reasons may be the lack of cyber security professionals. Read more...

Gallup: Cybercrime is the most feared crime in the U.S.

Paul Hill — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:00:01 +0000

The results are in, folks! It turns out that the crime most people worry about is being the target of a cybercrime, whether it be personal or financial information that they lose to a hacker. Read more...