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Romanian police bust hackers allegedly plotting ransomware attacks on hospitals
The hackers reportedly planned to threaten hospitals with malware to protest Romania’s state of emergency amid COVID-19.
European police nab 26 suspects in SIM swapping dragnet
The attacks were anything but unique. Still, they worked.
U.S. jury finds two Romanians guilty of stealing credit card info, infecting 400,000 computers
The two men also allegedly stole millions of dollars through online auction fraud.
Facebook purges accounts for spreading hate speech, this time in the U.K. and Romania
The social media giant says it shut down dozens of accounts, pages and groups intended to "engage in hate speech and spread divisive comments on both sides of the political debate" in the United Kingdom and in Romania.
Update from No More Ransom helps victims of GandCrab attacks
GrandCrab "surpassed all other strains of ransomware in 2018," says Europol, which helped the No More Ransom project develop the decryption tool with security company Bitdefender and other law enforcement agencies.
U.S. busts Romanian cybercrime ring that phished Americans, laundered millions of dollars
The scheme involved an elaborate amount of social-engineering with a dose of phishing.
