March 24, 2020

Feds shut down bogus COVID-19 vaccine site

A vaccine for $4.95!? Nah, we didn't think so, either. Shuttering the alleged rip-off site is the DOJ's 1st takedown of COVID-19 flimflam.

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January 27, 2020

Cardplanet mastermind pleads guilty to credit card fraud

Cardplanet offered refunds on invalid card data, along with a card checking service that ensured a stolen card was still valid.

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January 07, 2020

IT exec sets up fake biz to scam his employer out of $6m

He cooked up an IT vendor, its invoices, its vapor-gear, and the phantom employees who never showed up to do all those services.

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September 13, 2019

Fin7 sysadmin pleads guilty to running IT for billion-dollar crime syndicate

Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court.

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September 02, 2019

Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.

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August 08, 2019

More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.

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June 20, 2019

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is big news but will it be secure?

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know that earlier this week Facebook announced plans for a new global cryptocurrency for absolutely everyone called Libra.

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May 17, 2019

Hacking gang stole millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swaps

Six alleged members of "The Community" were indicted, along with three phone service employees who allegedly helped target subscribers.

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May 08, 2019

Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US

A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.

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