Police investigates fake social media competition

The Post Fiji and Police’s Force Cyber Crime Unit are currently investigating a fake social media competition.

The company this afternoon issued a statement advising the public of a fake Post Fiji competition with misleading information via social media advising members of the public to attempt and be in the draw to win valuable prizes.

Post Fiji says it is not conducting such a social media competition and thus, anyone who receives such notifications should refrain from responding or participating in it.

Authorities Dismantle Transnational Cybercrime Group

An international cybercrime network that tried to steal an estimated $100 million has been taken down in a coordinated multinational effort.

Prosecutors and law enforcement officials from the United States and Europe, speaking at a news conference on Thursday in The Hague, say that criminals used malware to infect tens of thousands of computers worldwide, capturing online banking credentials from unknowing victims in a bid to extract their money.

The scheme took place between October 2015 and December 2016. A virtual assembly line of skills and services by cybercrime specialists made the fraudulent work possible, prosecutors contend.

German police shut down one of world's biggest dark web sites

German police have shut down one of the world’s largest illegal online markets in the so-called dark web and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said on Friday.

The “Wall Street Market” (WSM) site enabled trade in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well as stolen data, fake documents and malicious software.

The encrypted platform had more than 1m customer accounts, over 5,000 registered sellers and more than 60,000 sales offers, according to Frankfurt prosecutors and affidavits filed by US prosecutors in a federal court in Los Angeles.