This is bbc news, the headlines. G7 Foreign Ministers meet in capri the wars in ukraine and gaza top of the agenda. Police take down an International Cyber crime gang based in the uk, accused of industrial scale fraud. The Scottish Government is moving its climate goal post, ditching its target of reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions by 75 by 2030. And why some film fans are veering away from streaming in favour of Micro Cinemas. Londons metropolitan police have infiltrated a website, founded in the uk and used to defraud victims on an industrial scale, leading to arrests around the world. Labhost enabled scammers without Technical Skills to set up fake websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information such as email addresses, passwords and bank details. As many as 70,000 people in the uk were tricked by the scam, which allowed the scammers to steal 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 pin codes. Detectives estimate that the labhost site made nearly £1 million in profits.
websites for people and basically selling that access to other types of criminals. you are talking about a complex ecosystem, a criminal ecosystem. we a complex ecosystem, a criminal ecosystem- ecosystem. we know that the investigators ecosystem. we know that the investigators seized - ecosystem. we know that the investigators seized the - ecosystem. we know that the l investigators seized the e-mail investigators seized the e mail addresses of 800 criminals who were paying labhost for its services. we understand that these 800 will be sent personalised videos, making it clear the police know who they are and what they have been up to, and the idea, advised by psychologist, is to undermine confidence in these dark web operators. is that a good strategy, the right strategy, to tackle these networks of crime? yeah, i think we have to look at that we are increasingly reliant on connected technologies in every part of our lives. there is a booming business for cybercrime to take
detected suspicious activity but encourages people to set up a new password anyway. google says the search was affected, gmail, youtube, wallet, play and app. google immediately applied patches but you don t have to change your passwords but in their words, better safe than sorry. yahoo! says it was affected but it already patched its search, mail, homepage, finance, flickr and tumblr but still yahoo! recommends changing your password. amazon.com, for customers was not affected but amazon services for web operators was. they patched the flaw but they still recommend web operators for amazon change their passwords. other sights recommending updating password, godaddy, intuit, turbo tax, dropbox. last pass. okay cupid and soundcloud and one der list. notably not affected paypal, linked in, microsoft, aol.