High streets across the UK are struggling with an epidemic of stealing. What’s behind this sudden crime wave and can anything be done to stop it?

A man leaves a north London branch of Aldi carrying two bags of groceries that he did not pay for. He hadn’t planned to steal, but after becoming exasperated with the slowness of staff attending to the various glitches and alarms of the self-checkout system, and assuming it would go unnoticed, decides to just walk out the door.

He crosses the road and heads towards home. It’s a busy part of town and this kind of thing happens all the time. He doubts anyone in the store even noticed. But a voice calls after him, a security guard has given chase. The man, slightly panicked, doubles down and quickens his pace, pretending not to hear, but the guard keeps shouting, pleading for him to stop. In an attempt to lose his pursuer, the man ducks into a newsagent. The security guard enters, finds the man pretending to browse the fountain pens, and challenges him. “Sir, you didn’t pay for that shopping.”

Yunus Paksoy appeared to be filming a live broadcast outside home of Fethullah Gülen when man in SUV approached

A CNN Turkey journalist says a supporter of political movement founder Fethullah Gülen attacked him near the self-exiled figure’s home in Pennsylvania in an encounter that apparently unfolded live on air.

In a video posted Saturday, Yunus Paksoy appeared to be filming a live broadcast outside Gülen’s home, reportedly near the area of Saylorsburg, when a man driving a dark SUV approached him.

Idaho case marked by Daybell and girlfriend Lori Vallow Daybell’s extremist religious beliefs about doomsday

Chad Daybell was sentenced to death Saturday for the murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children in Idaho in a case marked by his and his girlfriend’s extremist religious beliefs about doomsday.

The sentence was handed down after an Idaho jury unanimously agreed that imposing the death penalty would be a just resolution to the triple-murder case. The sentence marks the end of a grim investigation that began with a search for two missing children in 2019. The next year, their bodies were found buried in Daybell’s eastern Idaho yard.

Flags were stolen overnight from prominent local traffic circle in Carlisle amid wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in US

Police are investigating the theft of more than 200 Pride flags in Carlisle, Massachusetts, that occurred just before Pride month – and amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ measures from US legislatures.

In a statement released on Friday, the Carlisle police department announced that it is investigating the theft of the flags, which were taken out of a prominent local traffic circle earlier in the week.

US representative and failed contender for president says Kathy Hochul should grant pardon ‘for the good of the country’

The outgoing Democratic US representative who failed in his presidential primary challenge against Joe Biden called on the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, to pardon Donald Trump over his criminal conviction for hush-money payments to influence the 2016 election “for the good of the country”.

Minnesota representative Dean Phillips, who was the first Democrat to call on fellow party member Henry Cuellar to resign following bribery charges against the Texas representative, urged for the pardon on Friday in a post on X.

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Cybercrime group ShinyHunters reportedly demanding £400,000 ransom to prevent data being sold

Ticketmaster has been targeted in a cyber-attack, with hackers allegedly offering to sell customer data on the dark web, its parent company, Live Nation, has confirmed.

The ShinyHunters hacking group is reportedly demanding about £400,000 in a ransom payment to prevent the data being sold.

Girl remains in critical condition after being hit by bullet in suspected drive-by attack

The young girl left in a critical condition after being mistakenly shot by a suspected gangland hitman was visiting relatives in London on her half-term holiday.

The girl, from Birmingham, was still in hospital on Friday after a bullet struck her as she ate at Evin restaurant, in Hackney, north-east London, on Wednesday evening.

US president says it is ‘reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ for Republicans to malign integrity of America’s justice system

• Donald Trump conviction – live updates

Joe Biden warned on Friday that it was reckless and “dangerous” for anyone to claim Donald Trump’s criminal conviction was the result of a rigged trial, as the former president hit out at the verdict against him and Republicans maligned the integrity of America’s justice system.

Donald Trump hit out furiously on Friday morning at the new status of “felon” conferred on him by a New York jury, whose guilty verdict made him the first former US president ever to become a convicted criminal.

ShinyHunters stole information including bank and credit card numbers, as well as staff HR details

Hackers are attempting to sell confidential information including the bank and credit card numbers of millions of Santander customers to the highest bidder.

ShinyHunters posted an advert on a hacker forum for the data, which it says also includes staff HR details, with an asking price of $2m (£1.6m). It is the same organisation that claims to have hacked Ticketmaster.

Former president calls verdict ‘a disgrace’ after being convicted in New York on all 34 counts of falsifying business records

• Is Trump going to prison? What happens next

Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

The verdict came after a jury deliberated for less than 12 hours in the unprecedented first criminal trial against a US president, current or former. It marks a perilous political moment for Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination, whose poll numbers have remained unchanged throughout the trial but could tank at any moment.

Police detain and later release man and woman in their 30s while they investigate theft and subsequent death of staff member

Two people have been arrested over a robbery at a jewellery shop in south-west London, shortly after which a staff member was found dead.

A man and a woman, both in their 30s, were detained by officers this week and later released while police continue to investigate. The body of Oliver White, who was assaulted but not seriously injured during the robbery, was found in Surrey the next day. Police have said they are not treating his death as suspicious.

‘World’s largest botnet’ – spread through infected emails – taken down through coordinated police action among several countries

US authorities announced on Thursday that they had dismantled the “world’s largest botnet ever”, allegedly responsible for nearly $6bn in Covid insurance fraud.

The Department of Justice arrested a Chinese national, YunHe Wang, 35, and seized luxury watches, more than 20 properties and a Ferrari. The networks allegedly operated by Wang and others, dubbed “911 S5”, spread ransomware via infected emails from 2014 to 2022. Wang allegedly accrued a fortune of $99m by licensing his malware to other criminals. The network allegedly pulled in $5.9bn in fraudulent unemployment claims from Covid relief programs.

Primary school teacher Fiona Beal sentenced to life after killing Nicholas Billingham at their home in 2021

A primary school teacher who murdered her boyfriend and buried his body in their back garden in a “carefully planned domestic execution” has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 20 years.

Fiona Beal, 50, stabbed and killed her partner, Nicholas Billingham, 42, at their home in Northampton in 2021. His remains were discovered in March 2022, four and a half months after he had last been seen.

Child seriously injured in drive-by shooting as she ate with her family at north-east London restaurant

A nine-year-old girl is in critical condition after she was shot and left seriously wounded by a hitman on a motorbike while she ate with her family inside a Turkish restaurant.

Witnesses told of scenes of horror and terror after shots were fired from the motorbike, which pulled up outside Evin restaurant in Dalston, north-east London, letting off a volley of at least four rounds at about 9.20pm on Wednesday.

Group wants big tech social media firms to pay up to £40m a year to reimburse customers after years of shouldering cost of fraud

A leading City lobby group is calling on the next government to bring in scams legislation that forces big tech and social media companies to cough up up to £40m a year to reimburse customers and fight fraud on their platforms.

The demand came in a ‘financial services manifesto’ released by UK Finance, which represents banks, payments companies and other financial firms.

Views: 0Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini BreachForums resurrected after FBI seizure The cybercrime forum BreachForums has been resurrected two weeks after a law enforcement operation that seized its infrastructure. The cybercrime forum BreachForums is online again, recently a US law enforcement operation seized its infrastructure and took down the platform. The platform is now reachable […]

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Views: 0Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini ABN Amro discloses data breach following an attack on a third-party provider Dutch bank ABN Amro discloses data breach following a ransomware attack hit the third-party services provider AddComm. Dutch bank ABN Amro disclosed a data breach after third-party services provider AddComm suffered a ransomware attack. AddComm distributes […]

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Views: 0Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Christie disclosed a data breach after a RansomHub attack Auction house Christie disclosed a data breach following a RansomHub cyber attack that occurred this month. Auction house Christie’s disclosed a data breach after the ransomware group RansomHub threatened to leak stolen data. The security breach occurred earlier this month. The website […]

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Deaths of members of British al-Hilli family and French cyclist in remote layby have baffled detectives since 2012

Detectives from France’s cold case unit have ordered DNA analysis of evidence in the unsolved killing of a British family and a French cyclist in a remote Alpine village 12 years ago.

Clothes belonging to one of the victims, cigarette butts found at the scene and pieces of the gun used in the killings are to be tested in the hopes of solving the mystery of the murders, described by the local prosecutor as “an act of gross savagery”.

Ann and Bernard McDonagh from Port Talbot ‘cynically and brazenly’ defrauded restaurants, says judge

A couple have been jailed for carrying out a string of “dine and dash” offences, racking up large bills for food and drink before leaving without paying.

A judge at Swansea crown court said Ann McDonagh, 39, and Bernard McDonagh, 41, had “cynically and brazenly” defrauded restaurants and a takeaway in south Wales.

Security incident at pension scheme being taken ‘extremely seriously’, but broadcaster says there is no evidence of a ransomware attack

The BBC has launched an investigation after the details of more than 25,000 current and former employees were exposed in a data breach.

The corporation’s pension scheme wrote to members on Wednesday to say their details had been stolen in a data security incident that it was taking “extremely seriously”.

The US government has announced sanctions against three Chinese nationals accused of creating and operating the 911 S5 proxy botnet.

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DePape, who didn’t get to speak in court in original trial on assault of Nancy’s Pelosi’s husband, gets no change to original sentence

The man who was convicted of assaulting then US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in 2022 was re-sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, with no change in the original sentence after the case was reopened so he could speak during his sentencing hearing, local news reported.

David DePape was originally sentenced to 30 years in prison on 17 May for forcibly entering Pelosi’s home in San Francisco early on 28 October 2022 and clubbing her husband, Paul, in the head with a hammer in a politically motivated attack.

Daniel Mihai Popescu given more than 17 years for stabbing Andreea Pintili as she left home in Aberfan

A man who stabbed his pregnant ex-girlfriend weeks before she was due to give birth to their baby has been jailed for 17 years and four months for attempted murder.

Daniel Mihai Popescu, 29, grabbed Andreea Pintili as she left home in Aberfan, south Wales, and told her: “I have a knife and I am going to kill you.”

Stephen Kavanagh urges law enforcement agencies to work with academia and tech firms to tackle ‘new era of crime’

The world is entering a “polycriminal age” where cross-continental gangs use fraud, synthetic drugs, AI and child sexual abuse to generate profits bigger than the gross domestic products of nation states, a senior figure in Interpol has claimed.

Stephen Kavanagh, an executive director of the international agency, said multibillion-pound syndicates were destabilising countries, driving migration and destroying ecosystems, while international police forces struggled to cope.

Alana Dredge posts emotional message to Oliver White, who died hours after being put in chokehold during raid in Richmond

The partner of a watch dealer who was found dead the day after he was the victim of a robbery in south-west London has paid tribute to him, saying she loved him more than she could express in words.

The man, reported to be Oliver White, died hours after being put in a chokehold during the raid. Police have said they are not treating the death as suspicious.

And almost half of respondents back the filing of criminal charges against oil companies that have contributed to the climate crisis

As US communities take big oil to court for allegedly deceiving the public about the climate crisis, polling shared with the Guardian shows that a majority of voters support the litigation, while almost half would back an even more aggressive legal strategy of filing criminal charges.

The poll, which comes as the world’s first-ever criminal climate lawsuit was brought in France last week, could shed light on how, if filed, similar US cases might be viewed by a jury.

Source: securelist.com – Author: CFR team Marketplace fraud is nothing new. Cybercriminals swindle money out of buyers and sellers alike. Lately, we’ve seen a proliferation of cybergangs operating under the Fraud-as-a-Service model and specializing in tricking users of online marketplaces, in particular, message boards. Criminals are forever inventing new schemes for stealing personal data and […]

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First global study of its kind exposes ‘staggering scale’ of crime, with one in nine men in the US admitting to the offence

More than 300 million children across the globe are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse each year, research suggests.

In what is believed to be the first global estimate of the scale of the crisis, researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that 12.6% of the world’s children have been victims of nonconsensual talking, sharing and exposure to sexual images and video in the past year, equivalent to about 302 million young people.

Boy arrested on suspicion of the murder of Kamari Johnson, who died at the scene in Hayes on Friday

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after another teenage boy, 16, was stabbed to death in London.

An investigation was launched after police were called at about 1.30pm on Friday to reports of a stabbing in Hayes, west London.

Two were arrested on Thursday after Swat team raided rapper’s rented mansion in suburban Fort Lauderdale

Rapper and singer Sean Kingston and his mother committed more than a million dollars in fraud in recent months, stealing money, jewelry, a Cadillac Escalade and furniture, documents released Friday allege.

Kingston, 34, and his 61-year-old mother, Janice Turner, have been charged with conducting an organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, identity theft and related crimes, according to arrest warrants released by the Broward county, Florida, sheriff’s office.

Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Usage of TLS in DDNS Services leads to Information Disclosure in Multiple Vendors The use of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) services embedded in appliances can potentially expose data and devices to attacks. The use of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) services embedded in appliances, such as those provided by vendors like Fortinet […]

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Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Recall feature in Microsoft Copilot+ PCs raises privacy and security concerns UK data watchdog is investigating Microsoft regarding the new Recall feature in Copilot+ PCs that captures screenshots of the user’s laptop every few seconds. The UK data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is investigating a new feature, […]

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Christina Robinson shook Dwelaniyah to death after he suffered cruelty over several weeks

A mother who beat her three-year-old son with a bamboo cane, claiming it was in line with Bible teaching, weeks before she murdered him, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.

Christina Robinson exposed her son Dwelaniyah to cruelty and excruciating pain over several weeks before she shook him to death at the family home in County Durham in November 2022.

Inglorious Basta(rds): 16 days on, huge hospital system continues to be paralyzed by ransomware—and patient safety is at risk.

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Prosecution hints that Lawrence Hecker, 92, accused of historical rape and kidnapping, is feigning illness to avoid going to trial

A dispute over whether a retired New Orleans Catholic priest technically remains hospitalized or not is the latest reason his high-profile rape and kidnapping trial has been delayed.

Lawrence Hecker, 92, a confessed serial child molester, has been residing at Bridgepoint continuing care facility in Marrero, Louisiana, a facility across the Mississippi River from New Orleans that is attached to a hospital campus.

Mastercard is integrating AI into its fraud-prediction technology that it expects will be able to see patterns in stolen cards faster and allow banks to replace them before they are used by criminals.

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Glen Powell plays a mild-mannered professor posing as a contract killer to catch would-be criminals in this diverting noir comedy loosely based on a true story

For this thoroughly entertaining comedy thriller, Richard Linklater finds the distinctive and weirdly uncomplicated register of sunny geniality that he so often gives us – when he’s not working on more demanding movies like Boyhood or the Before series. And yet the question of criminal violence presented in terms of goofy unreality gives this film the flavour of something by the Coen brothers.

It is loosely based on the true story of Gary Johnson, an undercover law enforcement officer in Houston, Texas. Johnson specialised in posing as a “hitman” in exotic disguises, setting up meets with people who wanted other people offed, secretly taping them while they said so explicitly leading to them being charged with conspiracy to murder, while always at risk of having the charge overturned due to entrapment.

Workplace killings in 2023 revealed hazardous working conditions of migrant farmworkers in Half Moon Bay

The owners of two mushroom farms in northern California where a disgruntled employee shot and killed seven people last year will pay a total of more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 employees.

In an announcement released on Monday following an extensive investigation, the US labor department said the payment is an element of administrative settlements reached by the department’s wage and hour division with California Terra Garden and Concord Farms.

Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 Cactus ransomware attack The digital imaging products manufacturer OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 ransomware attack. OmniVision Technologies is a company that specializes in developing advanced digital imaging solutions. In 2023, OmniVision employed 2,200 people and had an annual revenue […]

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Insurer Allianz says scam by criminals on motorbikes and scooters increased by 6,000% last year

Motorists have been warned to be vigilant after a 60-fold increase in “crash for cash” fraud claims involving motorbike and scooter riders staging accidents so they can blame innocent drivers.

The insurer Allianz said its data showed that claims relating to this scam increased by 6,000% between January and December 2023 – a significant jump from the 50% increase the year before.

Defense rests after calling two witnesses, and Donald Trump Jr attacks a question about why his father didn’t take the stand

Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial inched toward its final stretch on Tuesday with a fizzle, not a bang.

The former president’s defense rested after calling two witnesses, and Trump – despite previously saying that he would take the stand – was not among them. After the defense announced its decision to rest, Judge Juan Merchan told jurors to return on Tuesday 28 May for closing arguments, and that they should expect to start deliberations the following day.

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Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with running an online market that sold $100 million worth of illicit narcotics, including fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, LSD, and ketamine.

The authorities said that for almost four years, Rui-Siang Lin operated and owned the Incognito Market, an online marketplace on the dark web that users worldwide visited to buy and sell illegal narcotics. The marketplace facilitated transactions with many of the same features provided by legitimate e-commerce sites, including buyer and user registration, branding, advertising, and customer service. When registered buyers visited the site using the Tor browser, they were presented with the following graphic:

(credit: Justice Department)

The site allowed buyers to search through thousands of listings for narcotics of their choice. It opened in October 2020 and, as reported by KrebsOnSecurity, closed last March when its operators extorted both buyers and sellers of fees ranging from $100 to $2,000 in exchange for not revealing text messages and transaction records showing their participation in the marketplace. In the 41 months that Incognito Market was open, it facilitated the sale of more than $100 million of narcotics. By June 2023, the site was generating sales of $5 million per month.

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This remarkable documentary goes behind the scenes at a new major crime unit digging into dormant cases – and getting closure for brave survivors who’ve been waiting for decades

Cold Case Investigations: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes initially appears to be yet another behind-the-scenes documentary about police work in the UK, along the lines of 24 Hours in Police Custody, Night Coppers, The Met and so on. But this stands out because the investigations covered in these two episodes are historic crimes, which have been unsolved for between 20 and 40 years, and because its focus is on sexual offences. The sensitivity this requires is evident; the stories are told carefully, with respect for the victims and for the officers meticulously reassembling what is often complex historical evidence and applying new techniques to it.

Rape is notoriously underreported, conviction rates remain horrifyingly low and the delay in cases reaching court was recently called “a serious stain” on the justice system by a senior judge. The statistics here arrive rapidly. Hundreds of thousands of unsolved rape and sexual assault cases are lying dormant in police archives across the UK. A major crime unit has launched a push to re-examine 5,400 unsolved rape and sexual offence cases from the past 50 years, using forensic science that was previously unavailable.

Cold Case Investigations: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes airs on BBC Two and is available on BBC iPlayer now

Nursery worker Kate Roughley left Genevieve Meehan strapped face down to a beanbag for 97 minutes, court heard

• Nursery death of Genevieve raises troubling questions

A “callous” nursery worker is facing years in jail after being convicted of killing a nine-month-old girl who died after being strapped face down to a beanbag for more than 90 minutes.

Genevieve Meehan suffocated after being placed in “mortal danger” as a “punishment” by Kate Roughley, the deputy manager of Tiny Toes nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, the trial heard.

While deputy manager of Tiny Toes in Stockport found guilty of manslaughter, case suggests it may be about more than just one bad apple

• Woman found guilty of killing girl at Stockport nursery

Baby Genevieve Meehan, known to her family as Gigi, was her usual happy self when she arrived at Tiny Toes nursery on an overcast Monday morning in May 2022.

The nine-month-old girl with the striking emerald eyes had just taken her first steps and was uttering her first words. She had spent the weekend at home with her parents, enjoying cuddles and playing with her favourite toy tambourine.

As a UN expert on psychological torture, I’ve asked peers to reconsider the IPP sentences still affecting thousands in jail

• Alice Edwards is the UN special rapporteur on torture

Martin Myers attempted to steal a cigarette. Tommy Nicol stole a car. John Wright, then 17, head-butted a younger child and stole his bike. For these relatively minor crimes, they received grossly disproportionate sentences of the length you might expect for murderers.

Martin Myers is still in jail for attempted robbery of that cigarette back in 2006. John Wright is now 34 and has spent 17 years in jail. Tommy Nicol took his own life while in prison on an indeterminate sentence.

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has been targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in disruption and possibly a data breach.

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