Cyber Criminal Underground: The Comics Edition

The criminal underworld is an insular community shrouded in secrecy. That’s helped lend an air of mystique to cyber crime. See also: Bruce Willis in “Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard.”. But it turns out that, like so much else, real life cyber crime is… well… pretty dull. How dull? Comic artist...

Warning About IDS Evasion Greeted by Chorus of 'Meh'

‘All your IDS are belong to us,’ was the message on Monday, after researchers at networking security equipment vendor Stonesoft announced the discovery of evasion techniques that could be used by sophisticated attackers to bypass network based IDS and IPS. The disclosure raises questions about th...

More Than 60 Charged in N.Y. in Zeus Scam

The Manhattan district attorney on Thursday announced charges against 36 people in connection with the operation of the Zeus malware campaign. It’s the second major bust of suspects in the Zeus investigation this week, following the arrest of 20 people in the U.K. on Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney in...

Пресечена деятельность хакеров-вымогателей

Источник: http://www.kguvd.ru/news/7 Когда: 31 Августа, 2010 Оперативники отдела "К" и УБЭП ГУВД Москвы пресекли деятельность группы хакеров, заражавших вредоносными программами компьютеры пользователей и вымогавших деньги за разблокировку. Деньги взимались с помощью платных SMS стоимостью от 300...

Online Bank Fraud Hammering Small Businesses

Online bank fraud, for all of its obvious ploys and tired tactics, is still a remarkably effective way to make money. Too lazy or clueless to get a real job? Go phishing. Lots of people are doing it, and by some estimates, it’s evolving into a nearly $1 billion business. Many industry groups and...

SMS Crime Ring Busted in Malaysia

Malaysian cops have busted an alleged text message spam scam ring thought to have fleeced locals for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The group are suspected of raking in RM6.4m $1.9m between 2006 and April 2010 using fictitious lottery winnings as a bait for an advanced fee fraud. Read the full...

FBI Plans to Chase Online Money Mules

The FBI’s top anti-cyber crime official today said the agency is planning a law enforcement action against so-called “money mules,” individuals willingly or unwittingly roped into helping organized computer crooks launder money stolen through online banking fraud. Read the full article...

Top 20 'Critical Controls' from SANS Institute

The SANS Institute has released critical security controls for cyber defense agreed to by a consortium of agencies including: “NSA, US Cert, DoD, DoD JTF-GNO, the Department of Energy Nuclear Laboratories, Department of State, DoD Cyber Crime Center plus the top commercial forensics experts and p...

Feds Admit Not Doing Enough in ID Theft

An internal review has found that the Justice Department has not done enough to fight identity theft, the fastest-growing crime in the country. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine says in a report that the department is falling short in efforts to combat identity theft, and that the...

Dental Practice Loses $200K to Criminals

Organized computer criminals yanked more than $200,000 out of the online bank accounts of a Missouri dental practice this month, in yet another attack that exposes the financial risks that small- to mid-sized organizations face when banking online. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

A Closer Look at the Koobface Gang

The Koobface botnet is the tip of the iceberg for the malicious operations of the online crime ring. Here are the top 10 things you didn’t know about the Koobface gang. Read the full article. ZDNet...

Online Crime Easier, More Budget Friendly

Mainstream attention to Operation Aurora and the Kneber Zeus botnet are welcome. It underscores how the Internet underground has advanced to the point where a plethora of powerful hacking tools and services is readily available to novice hackers and elite crime gangs alike – with prices to fit...

Founder of DarkMarket Faces Hefty Jail Time

A former London pizza delivery man, Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, faces a 10-year prison sentence after admitting he helped found the notorious DarkMarket forum for computer crime. Read the full article. The Register...

School Districts Are Major Online Crime Targets

In the fall of 2009, districts in Colorado, Illinois, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania all reported thefts of tens of thousands of dollars. The threat continues: on January 5, 2010, the Duanesburg, New York Central School District disclosed an attempted theft of $3.8 million, about a quarter of the...

Rogue Antivirus Scams Making Moola

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center said rogue antivirus writers have raked in $150 million from users. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Guardian Jobs Site Hacked, Data Stolen

In what is being described as a “deliberate and sophisticated crime,” the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. says the careers section of its Web site was hacked, exposing sensitive data belonging to about half a million users. According to a note posted online by the Guardian: The police remain anxio...

Free COFEE Helps Law Enforcement Forensics

Microsoft has announced plans to give away free versions of its COFEE Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor utility to help law enforcement agencies in cyber-crime investigations. COFEE uses digital forensic technologies to help investigators gather evidence of live computer activity at the...

Zeus Trojan Part of New Outlook Web Access Phishing Scam

The attackers behind the Zeus Trojan have unleashed a new phishing scam that is specifically targeted at users of the popular corporate webmail tool Outlook Web Access. The phishing emails include the recipient’s actual email address and appear to be an update to the OWA application. The mail...

Analysis: Phishing Arrests Highlight Massive Problem

The massive phishing scam broken up by federal authorities this week is only a hint at what many say is an insidious and growing problem on the Internet. The bust, dubbed Operation Phish Phry, was described by the FBI as the largest ever cyber-crime investigation and they held it up as a shining...

Operation Phish Phry Nets 100 Cyber Criminals

The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber-crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated “phishing” operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands of victims that was...