Impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol went on trial on Thursday. The former prosecutor has been behind bars since January on charges of insurrection, for which he could be sentenced to life in prison or face the death penalty. Source link
A company was hacked after it hired a North Korean cyber criminal posing as an IT contractor. The unnamed company fell victim to a new North Korean hacking tactic, according to cybersecurity company Secureworks, which investigated the incident. A North Korean cyber criminal posing as an IT contractor was hired for a fixed-term contract by the firm, which is based either in the UK, US or Australia. Secureworks is keeping the company’s location general in order to protect the company. Within days of starting work, the criminal “accessed and exfiltrated company data”, according to Rafe Pilling, who is the director of threat intelligence at Secureworks. Then, when the employment contract was finished, the criminal used the hacked data “to demand a hefty ransom in return for not publishing” it, said Mr Pilling. This is a new tactic for the North Korean regime, which was already trying to sneak its workers into UK companies. “It is almost certain that UK firms are currently being targeted by [North Korean] IT workers disguised as freelance third-country IT workers …
Sensitive data stolen from an NHS provider in a cyber attack has apparently been published online. NHS England says a criminal group claims it has released patient information hacked from Synnovis, which provides pathology services on blood tests. Synnovis, which provides services primarily in southeast London, was the victim of a ransomware attack, understood to be carried out by Russian group Qilin, on 3 June. Election latest:Audience shouts ‘shame’ at PM In a statement on Friday morning, NHS England said: “NHS England has been made aware that the cyber criminal group published data last night which they are claiming belongs to Synnovis and was stolen as part of this attack. “We understand that people may be concerned by this and we are continuing to work with Synnovis, the National Cyber Security Centre and other partners to determine the content of the published files as quickly as possible. “This includes whether it is data extracted from the Synnovis system, and if so whether it relates to NHS patients. “As more information becomes available through Synnovis’ full …
Ella Janneh sued Michael Lousada for damages after he used ‘penile penetration’ during a session in 2016. Source link
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is taking off the gloves and going after his rival, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a new $50 million ad campaign focusing on the former president’s historic criminal conviction in New York. The 30-second spot, titled Character Matters, features images of Trump in the Manhattan courtroom where he was found guilty last month of falsifying business records to hide payments to an adult film star. “He’s been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for sexual assault, and he committed financial fraud,” the narrator says in the ad. “This election is between a convicted criminal who’s only out for himself and a president who’s fighting for your family.” Biden’s campaign said the ad is targeting voters in all battleground states in the month of June, contrasting Trump’s legal troubles with Biden’s legislative accomplishments, including working to lower health care costs and counteract the effects of inflation. “Character matters, and the President of the United States should be someone who understands that the highest office in the land is about you …
Sarah’s front room is filled with pictures of her smiling baby. He’s now 18 months old. But for almost a year, she was investigated on suspicion of illegally trying to abort him. In January 2023, Sarah (not her real name) had just delivered her baby prematurely. She called 999 but before paramedics turned up, police came knocking at her door. “The front room was just full of police,” Sarah tells Sky News. “I felt like a criminal.” Her pregnancy was unplanned and she had considered a termination. She went to an abortion clinic but was told she was three days over the legal limit of 24 weeks. “I wasn’t expecting to be that far gone,” she says. “I was hardly showing. It was a massive shock.” When she got home, she panicked and started searching adoption, and adoption to friends and family, online. She even put abortion pills in her online shopping basket – but never bought them. After a few days, Sarah came to terms with the pregnancy. But on the Monday morning, she …
The 34 verdicts were all the same: guilty. Last week Donald Trump became the first former or serving US president to have been convicted of a crime. He was found to have falsified business records to hide ‘hush money’ paid to cover up a sex scandal he feared would hinder his run for office in 2016. Not long ago, it would have been a career-ending verdict. Instead, Trump has come out fighting, claiming the case was politically motivated. And, says David Smith, it has left Joe Biden in a quandary: if he focuses on the verdict he risks playing into Trump’s narrative that he was behind the prosecution. Alice Herman, who lives in the swing state of Wisconsin, has spoken to local voters about how the guilty verdict will affect their election decisions. The answers were not as decisive as Biden may have hoped. Many said they did not care about the outcome and that it had only confirmed their voting intentions for or against Trump. With a small number of voters enough to make …
Police are planning to deploy 80 detectives for their criminal inquiry into the Post Office scandal, the Guardian has learned, but victims will face a long wait to discover if charges will follow. The investigation will examine potential offences of perjury, and perverting the course of justice by Post Office senior leaders as well as the tech company Fujitsu. Police have already started discussions with prosecutors about the investigation and potential criminal charges, which stem from the possibility that post office operators were wrongly prosecuted for stealing when bosses allegedly knew their computer accounting system could be flawed. The police operation will be national and split into four regional hubs. The staffing and resources will be similar to a major murder or terrorism investigation. Police have asked government for a special grant of at least £6.75m to fund the operation. But the victims face a big delay before finding out if those who pursued them – they say wrongly – will themselves face criminal trials. Police will not seek charging decisions, that is send files …
Watching three masked men smash their way into a luxury watch shop in Tokyo’s upmarket Ginza district in broad daylight, some onlookers assumed they were witnessing a TV drama or movie shoot. But the heist in May 2023 was real. It was carried out by a group of teenagers aged between 16 and 19 who were recruited online, and part of a new crime phenomenon called tokuryū by authorities that is growing as Japan’s yakuza clans decline. Who are tokuryū? Formed by the characters for “anonymous” (tokumei) and “fluid” (ryūdo), the term tokuryū refers to ad hoc groups formed to commit crimes, where members often don’t know each other or those planning and directing their activities. They are distinct from the yakuza and less hierarchical, usually with loose organisational structures above those carrying out crimes ranging from robberies and frauds to assaults and murders. Most of those arrested for such crimes are recruited online for what is known as yami-baito, or shady casual work. Many of them tell police that threats were made against them …
Andrew Malkinson says he could have been spared “20 years of darkness and despair” if the jury system had not been changed to allow majority verdicts. Malkinson was exonerated of rape last summer, two decades after a jury wrongly convicted him by a majority of 10 to 2. In an interview to coincide with the launch of research on the role of majority verdicts on miscarriages of justice, he said that reintroducing jury unanimity was one of several reforms he wanted to campaign for as a result of his experience. The law was changed in 1967 to allow convictions when a jury is unable to reach a unanimous decision. The practice was overturned in the US for serious cases in 2020 because of the risk of miscarriages of justice. Malkinson said if the law had remained the same “then none of this horror that has befallen me would have taken place”. He said research from the legal charity Appeal showed that the legislation needed urgent review. “People shouldn’t be sent to prison for life on …
