Vlad Constantinescu

1 month ago | bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Vlad Constantinescu

A security researcher has discovered that the websites of over 100 car dealerships have been compromised in a supply-chain attack that attempted to infect the PCs of internet visitors. As researcher Randy McEoin explains in a blog post, cybercriminals infected the systems of LES Automotive, a company which provides a video services to help car dealerships market vehicles online.

1 month ago | bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Vlad Constantinescu

Have you had a phone call from police about your cryptocurrency wallet? Be on your guard - you could be about to be scammed. That's the clear warning issued by police in England, as it was disclosed how nine people have lost a combined £1 million in a phone-related cryptocurrency scam. According to the Kent police force, scammers have been exploiting personal information of residents that was included in a data leak to create fake Action Fraud reports.

2 months ago | bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Vlad Constantinescu |Silviu Stahie

The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance baiting scams. The operators of the compounds earn billions of dollars each year from computer victims worldwide, with many of those in the compound misled or coerced to work for the scammers, trapped in virtual slavery.

Nov 1, 2024 | bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Vlad Constantinescu

A disgruntled former Disney employee is facing charges that he hacked into the company's restaurant menu systems and wreaked havoc on its digital displays that could have potentially put lives at risk. Michael Scheuer left his role as a menu production manager at Walt Disney World in June, and is accused of abusing his knowledge of work passwords to log into the menu creation system used by Disney restaurants in Florida.

Sep 2, 2024 | bitdefender.com | Graham Cluley |Vlad Constantinescu

A former IT engineer is facing federal charges in the United States after his former employer found it had been locked out of its computer systems and received a demand for $750,000. At approximately 4pm EST on November 25, 2023, staff at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, began to receive password reset notifications.