Collaborate Disseminate
Congratulations to our great friends at Dissect Cyber for receiving the DHS S&T Global Award for their work on BEC scams!
The FBI has been warning companies for several years now of the growing prominence of Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams as… Continue reading Dissect Cyber wins major DHS S&T Award for their BEC Work
The Federal Trade Commission announced settlements this week that could result in many fewer of those annoying Robocalls we’ve all been receiving. Who did they sanction and what were those companies doing?
NetDotSolutions (James Christiano)
Ja… Continue reading FTC shutters four Robocalling services that made billions of calls in 2018
Many cybercrime investigators seem narrowly focused on the bits and bytes of the crimes they investigate while not truly understanding or interacting with those who focus on where the money goes. As we’ve been expanding our horizons, I’ve learne… Continue reading Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing: What is FATF?
This morning I received a tip from one of the top West African fraud experts in the world, Derek Smythe from AA419. Derek and his team had been in communication with several victims of a “Poker Lottery” scam and had documented a set of linked domains… Continue reading Facebook Lotteries to Avoid – with help from AA419
When I posted last month about a Romanian skimming case (see: “Alert Traffic Patrolman Unveils Romanian Skimming Ring”) I got two strong reactions. One was from my Romanian Information Security friends who wanted to remind me that not all Romania… Continue reading Romanians on a Skimming Crime Spree?
Clinton, Mississippi doesn’t sound like the kind of place where an international skimming operation would be operating. With a population of barely 25,000, the town in southwest Mississippi does have one thing that helped – an alert … Continue reading Alert Traffic Patrolman Unveils Romanian Skimming Ring
The Times of India reports that police have raided a call center in Noida Sector 63 where hundreds of fraud calls were placed every day to Americans and Canadians resulting in the theft of $50,000 per day.
The scammers had rented four floors of a… Continue reading 126 Arrests: The Emergence of India’s Cyber Crime Detectives Fighting Call Center Scams
Bogus bomb threats created a scare across the country. A quick note here that I’ll dive into more deeply next week. The big question at this time — with MANY of the IP addresses found in email headers originating from Moscow, Russia, is this “Russ… Continue reading Bogus Bomb Threats Demand Bitcoin Disrupt Businesses
Clement Onuama and Orefo Okeke were arrested on November 1, 2017 in the Western District of Texas after receiving a complaint and warrant from the District of Wisconsin, that the pair were involved in Romance Scams and Business Email Compromise Scams.
… Continue reading Business Email Compromise: Putting a Wisconsin Case Under the Microscope
Project Lakhta is the name of a Russian project that was further documented by the Department of Justice last Friday in the form of sharing a Criminal Complaint against Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, said to be the accountant in charge of running a mass… Continue reading Project Lakhta: Putin’s Chef spends $35M on social media influence