A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud

A Russian Zeus attacker Sentenced from Million Dollar Fraud A Russian Hacker, who was part of an elaborate Cyber attack that used Zeus Banking Trojan in U.S. visas to move cash stolen from U.S. businesses out of the country was sentenced on March 23 to two years in U.S. federal prison. Nikokay...

Two More Arrested in Connection with Megaupload

The saga of Megaupload continued over the weekend with the arrests of 39 year-old Sven Echternach, of Germany, and 32 year-old Andrus Nomm, of Estonia. The popular file-sharing site was shut down by the Department of Justice last week and its founder and CEO, Kim DotCom, was arrested in his home ...

Anonymous Changes DDoS Tactics in Megaupload Retaliation

Anonymous’ army of hacktivists have changed tactics in what some are calling an attempt to trick people into participating in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. A round of DDoS attacks Thursday were launched in retaliation for the federal crackdown on Megaupload, a popular file-sharing...

In UK Analytics Software Provides Enhanced (Online) Interrogation For Fraud Suspects

A recent report by the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA shows that the Agency is full speed ahead with plans to use powerful data analytics tools to help find and prosecute everything from money laundering to illegal gambling to 419 scams. The 2011 Annual Report on Suspicious Activity...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that...

Personal Information of 3.5 Million Poker Players Spilled Online

Customers of the online poker Website Ultimate Bet UB are the victims of a data breach that spilled the private information of up to 3.5 million of its customers online over the weekend. Ultimate Bet, a property of the Cereus Poker Network, saw a slew of customer information posted online includi...

Operation Satiagraha - Brazil Corruption Scandal exposed, #Antisec provide 5GB of evidence

Operation Satiagraha - Brazil Corruption Scandal exposed , Antisec provide 5GB of evidence Once Again Pandora's box is open. In a joint move between LulzSec and Anonymous, as part of Operation Antisec, were released documents, photos, audio files and videos, exposing that wich was one of the...

Operation Satiagraha - Brazil Corruption Scandal exposed, #Antisec provide 5GB of evidence

Operation Satiagraha - Brazil Corruption Scandal exposed , Antisec provide 5GB of evidence Once Again Pandora's box is open. In a joint move between LulzSec and Anonymous, as part of Operation Antisec, were released documents, photos, audio files and videos, exposing that wich was one of the...

Finnish Police Arrest 17 in Online Banking Scam

Finnish law enforcement officials arrested seventeen individuals in connection with an attack against Nordea Finland’s online banking services that took place in early 2010, according to a report from Softpedia. The group allegedly used a variant of the Gozi Trojan, also known as Papras, to pilfe...

Zynga hacker,Ashley Mitchell jailed for two years !

Zynga hacker,Ashley Mitchell jailed for two years ! British bloke Ashley Mitchell, 29, has been jailed for two years after stealing some 400 billion virtual gaming chips gaming company Zynga. Mitchell hacked his way into Zynga's back-end systems by pinching the identities of two Zynga employees a...

FBI Arrest Over 100, Uncovers Cyber Crime Ring

The FBI announced last week that it had busted a major international cyber crime network after arresting more than 90 suspected members of the ring in the US alone. The FBI said that the suspects worked as so-called mules for hackers, who were based in Eastern Europe and used malware to hack US...

Fraud Advisory for Consumers Released: Involvement in Criminal Activity Through Work from Home Scams

As part of a joint effort, the United States Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC have released Fraud Advisory for Consumers: Involvement in Criminal Activity through...

В США задержаны 11 хакеров из России

Они входили в преступную группу, похитившую из американских банков 3 млн долларов Дмитрий ГОНЧАРУК, Никита КРАСНИКОВ — 05.10.2010 Еще шесть граждан России были задержаны в США по обвинению в причастности к команде мошенников, которая воровала деньги с банковских счетов. Гражданство других девяти...

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...

California Man Gets 6 Years for Laundering

A Long Beach, California man who helped funnel stolen cash to a global network of hackers and carders was sentenced Thursday to 6 years in prison for conspiracy to launder money. Cesar Carranza, 38, sold MSR-206’s to carders to encode stolen bank card data onto blank cards, and he served as a...

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...

ID Theft Criminal Sentenced to 309 Years in Prison

Robert Thompson, also known as John Lawson, age 43, of Zachary, La., was sentenced to a term of 309 years in prison. Thompson, the leader of a massive identity theft and bribery scheme, was sentenced based on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device...

Online eBay Criminals Sentenced to Jail, Fined

Two Bulgarians have been sentenced for their roles in an online money-laundering scheme that collected about $1.2 million from U.S. residents and sent it to a criminal group in Eastern Europe, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Read the full article. Computerworld...

UK Police Warn Job Seekers to Avoid Being Money Mules

The Serious Organised Crime Agency Soca says websites are currently being used to recruit “money mules”. The “mules” are ordinary people who send and receive payments through their bank accounts to facilitate business. But in reality, the cash has been laundered from crime, leaving unwitting mule...