Collaborate Disseminate
The Eastern District of New York has ruled in the case “United States v. Nicholas Palumbo, et al” effectively putting TollFreeDeals.com and SIPRetail.com out of business. These are the “Voice Over IP” companies that have allowed millions of overseas c… Continue reading RoboCallers Hit with Permanent Injunction by Courts
On July 7, 2020, a Grand Jury in Seattle was presented with evidence about the eleven year campaign of Computer Network Intrusion being conducted by two former classmates who hacked for personal profit and the benefit of the Chinese Ministry of Stat… Continue reading Chinese “COVID-19” Hackers indicted after 11 year hacking spree
There are quite a few West African scammers who try to explain away their wealth by claiming they are a “bitcoin entrepreneur” or “real estate investor” when in fact they conduct Business Email Compromise scams against American companies, and Romance S… Continue reading Hushpuppi and Mr.Woodbery, BEC scammers: Welcome to Chicago!
Last week we shared information about a particularly interesting cluster of scams that focus on their shared use of a set of nameservers where all of the related content seems to be criminal in nature. Working with CAUCE (The Coalition Against Un… Continue reading More Covid Charity Scammers (hosted by Shinjiru Technologies AS45839)
Last month we shared information on the blog about spam-driven affiliate programs who were selling a variety of shady “anti-Coronavirus” products, including immunity oils, masks, disinfectants, and no-touch thermometers. (See: CAUCE Spamfighters R… Continue reading SEC Suspends CoronaVirus Stock Pump-n-Dump Scammers
This post may seem off-topic for my regular cybercrime and cyber security readers, but these are unusual times. Regular readers know that part of what my team at the UAB Computer Forensics Research Lab has been working on is looking for scams and fraud… Continue reading Map It. Zap It. Covid-19 and Rural America #GoodCovidDomains
Earlier this week I was chatting with one of the top experts on Russian Cybercrime (who has asked to remain anonymous here). We were discussing the news that was released on 24MAR2020 that the FSB had raided 62 addresses in 11 regions of Russia a… Continue reading Following Putin Order, FSB Cracks Down on Russian Credit Card Marketplaces
My email box is full of Coronavirus / COVID-19 frauds and scams. I have Corona malware disguised as product catalogs. I have fake World Health Organization emails asking me to donate my Bitcoin to them. I have more than 30 fake breath… Continue reading CAUCE Spamfighters Rally Against Corona Health Fraud Affiliate programs
Its been a while since we decoded Trickbot configs to see what banks and organizations were being actively targeted. While recently most of the news about Trickbot has been how it drops the Ryuk Ransomware, and that is certainly important, we can… Continue reading What sites is Trickbot targeting?
For years I have been encouraging people to report their instances of Cybercrime to the FBI’s Internet Crime & Complaint Center, IC3.gov. Based on the number of reports, people are finally doing just that. The growth in reporting over t… Continue reading IC3.gov 2019 Internet Crime Report: Its All About that BEC