Cybercrime

Turkish police have set up 11 new divisions in the department of cyber-crime, with one tracking cases of violence against animals online.

Russian hackers never attacked a single US state voting system during the 2016 presidential election, Department of Homeland Security National Programs Security Chief Christopher Krebs told the US House of Representatives.

For another year, many stores and merchants in Bulgaria will join the so-called Black Friday, making discounts on their goods on the last Friday of November. Unfortunately, among the lucrative offers, there are often attempts at fraud.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered the Greek state to pay 50,000 euros in damages and expenses to the family of Costas Tsalikidis, a mobile telephone company worker who was found hanged in his home in March 2005, shortly before a major wiretapping scandal involving his firm became public.

Turkey is preparing to run a national cyber-security drill in order to test possible vulnerabilities in its state institutions, Communications Minister Ahmet Aslan said on Nov. 16.

Facebook is teaming up with four countries to test a preemptive system to detect and defend against “revenge porn.” Users are being asked to upload nude photos of themselves to Messenger.

A student slit his teacher’s throat, took a selfie with the body and then killed himself with a circular saw in Russia amid fears it was part of an online death game.

Andrey Emelyannikov died in a bloodbath in Moscow after murdering his respected 44-year-old lecturer, a father-of-three.

Hundreds of millions of individual records are stolen every year. This data includes information about email accounts, credit cards, and more. We are witnessing massive DDoS attacks, closing or modifying pages, attacks against democratic governments and public institutions.

The damages of internet crimes in our country are for millions of BGN per year. This was explained to sega by Yavor Kolev of the GDBOP. In his words, most often victims are companies that work online, but there are also cases in which victims are also individuals.

There is billions worth of damage annually on a global scale from cybercrime, Kolev explained.

Some Russian financial organizations have suffered cyber attacks by malware called "BadRabbit" but have not been compromised, Russia's central bank said on Wednesday, quoted by Reuters. 

The central bank said it would analyze why the public server of the Interfax news agency with public company disclosure statements had been temporarily blocked on Tuesday.