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The run-up to my prostate examination | Brief letters

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At the doctor’s | Phone safety | Passwords | Heinz advert Lucy Mangan, writing about her doctor joking about her kidneys ( Digested week, 4 October ), reminded me of having an examination for an enlarged prostate. As I lay on the couch waiting for the procedure, my doctor said: “In accordance with …

Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency

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This is pretty horrific :...a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St. Felix focused largely on a single theft of cryptocurrency from an elderly North …

The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet

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The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide. These devices were …

Russia-based LockBit ransomware hackers attempt comeback

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Gang sets up new site on dark web and releases rambling statement explaining how it was infiltrated by law enforcement agencies The LockBit ransomware gang is attempting a comeback days after its operations were severely disrupted by a coordinated international crackdown. The Russia-based group has set up a new …

Seized ransomware network LockBit rewired to expose hackers to world

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Four arrested and LockBit victims will get help to recover data after joint operation in UK, US and Europe The entire “command and control” apparatus for the ransomware group LockBit is now in possession of law enforcement, the UK’s National Crime Agency has revealed, after it emerged that …