A Lexington County man now faces fraud charges after allegedly swapping a real lottery ticket with a fake one worth $500 back in 2022. The incident came to light when lottery officials noticed something odd about a winning ticket claimed at a local convenience store. Instead of paying out the winner
North Korean hackers infiltrated a widely used software tool, Axios, and slipped malicious code into it for several hours on Tuesday. The attackers gained control of a developer’s account and pushed bad updates to any business that pulled the package during that brief window. Companies across health
Hyundai Elantras are the most stolen cars in America this year, with 21, 732 thefts reported nationwide. That number tops the list by a wide margin, showing how often this model ends up on police dashboards. The second most common victim is the Honda Accord, which saw 17, 797 thefts. The Hyundai
A hefty 12‑ton load of Nestlé’s KitKat bars vanished during a European delivery, sparking fears of empty shelves just before Easter. The stolen shipment contained 413, 793 units of the brand’s newest chocolate line. It was en route from a factory in central Italy to a distribution hub in Poland whe
A group of rare books that once guided missionaries to China have finally made their way back to Italy. These volumes, dating from the 1500s and filled with early scientific ideas about stars, bodies, and machines, were kept in a large Jesuit archive in Rome. Between 1999 and 2002, about forty of th
A venture‑capital partner is offering a cash prize to anyone who can help recover $42 million worth of digital coins that vanished from his wallet in 2022. The former co‑founder of Fenbushi Capital says he will hand out a 10 % to 20 % share of any recovered funds. He has already seen some progress:
Cybersecurity experts have found a new set of npm packages that act like harmless tools but secretly grab crypto wallets and personal data. The attackers, who publish everything under the name “mikilanjillo, ” use seven different packages. Each one pretends to download extra modules, shows fak
A young man linked to a federal contractor was taken into custody after authorities say he stole about $46 million in cryptocurrency from the U. S. Marshals Service. The suspect, whose father runs a company that supplies “critical services” to federal agencies, was caught on the Caribbean island of
The South Korean National Tax Service announced it had seized more than $5 million in cryptocurrency from a group of wealthy tax evaders. In an attempt to make the story eye‑catching, officials posted pictures that included a handwritten recovery phrase next to a Ledger cold wallet. The phrase is
A group of four Chilean residents in Southern California captured their own crime on video, turning a daring robbery into a self‑made crime show. They filmed themselves breaking into a jewelry shop that sat next to a candy store in Simi Valley, California. The thieves used a crowbar to smash through
