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[Link] Law Enforcement Seizes RaidForums, One of the Most Important Hacking Sites

Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com

A coalition of international law enforcement agencies led by the U.S. Department of Justice have seized RaidForums, a nexus for a wealth of stolen data and hacks, and arrested the site’s administrator, the DOJ announced on Tuesday.

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[Link] FBI Arrests Man For Fraudulently Obtaining Leaks of 100s of Pre-Release Books

Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com

The FBI has arrested a man who impersonated publishers and literary agents in order to fraudulently obtain hundreds of pre-release novels and other books in electronic form.

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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you

Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.

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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989

Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com

In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.

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