Collaborate Disseminate
Today the Birmingham InfraGard Chapter and the Alabama ISSA held a joint meeting featuring a presentation from the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Administration, part of DHS that was formerly known as the NPPD. I learned of a ton of … Continue reading Iranian APT Group Overview
What did you do for the holidays? If you’re a cybercrime geek you probably took advantage of some of the extra time on your hands to investigate some new phishing sites, right?
Jone Fredrick is the type of Facebook user who is quite open abou… Continue reading Backdoored Phishing Kits are still popular
The Department of Justice announced last week that they were indicting the CEO of Air Peace for bank fraud and money laundering.
I had some difficulty finding the indictments for this case on PACER. It turns out I couldn’t find it in PACER b… Continue reading Air Peace CEO charged with millions in money laundering re-buying planes he already owns
Last summer the BBC technology program “Click” came to visit the lab for a special called “Can Technology Solve the Opioid Crisis?” One of the points we stressed with @NickKwek was that when we report opiods and fentanyl-related posts to Fac… Continue reading Facebook’s Transparency Report: (Expert) Supervised Machine Learning Works!
A recent project that DarkTower worked on was related to fraudulent marketplaces offering too-good-to-be-true deals on electronics. DarkTower’s CEO Robin Pugh took those lessons and applied them to a recent online shopping experience … I aske… Continue reading ‘Tis the Season for SCAMS!
DarkTower President Robin Pugh was chatting with a friend who is the VP of Operations for her family business. She mentioned as an aside that their email had been hacked, and of course, Robin’s cybercrime-fighter ears perked up. The … Continue reading Business Email Compromise (#BEC) Email Forwarding In Action
While I was on the train today I was checking email and found that I had received an interesting phish. It was sent to an email i haven’t used in years that apparently still fowards:
I certainly didn’t want to miss my “incomming” fax, so I of co… Continue reading A Phish That Scans For Viruses
This morning while I was on the Exercise Bike at the UAB Rec Center I got a LinkedIn message from a colleague I haven’t spoken to in a couple years.
That was actually the SECOND funny thing about my LinkedIn profile this morning. The first on… Continue reading A Targeted (?) Phish from a LinkedIn Connection
Ronayerin Ogolor has pled guilty to causing $900,000 in losses to at least 13 Romance Scam victims. Ogolor, a 50 year old naturalized citizen from Nigeria, lived in Kansas City, Missouri when he committed the various fraud schemes. After … Continue reading Stories of Romance Scam Victims: Ronayerin Ogolor
The darkweb child sexual exploitation video site, “Welcome to Video”, first came onto Law Enforcement’s attention as a result of a case in the UK, where a geophysicist Matthew Falder was arrested. When the National Crime Agency was looking into… Continue reading “Welcome to Video” raid leads to 337 arrests due to Bitcoin Exchanges that use strong KYC