Collaborate Disseminate
Making a natural fiber like wool into something useful like a sweater involves a lot of steps. We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving, but between shearing and spinning there’s another unfamiliar process you’ll have to go through. Known as …read more
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The recent ATM hack that netted cybercriminals $13.5 million from a bank in India happened just days after the FBI warned it was coming. Consider this the latest reminder about the importance of being ready for attacks before they happen, not after the… Continue reading Ready or Not, Here Comes the Next Big Digital Attack
Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years. Continue reading Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members
A lawyer for an alleged player in one of the largest hacking schemes in history says he is talking with the Department of Justice about the possibility of bringing his client to the U.S. to stand trial. Mikhail Rytikov can’t leave his home country of Ukraine because he would risk becoming the latest Eastern European snatched up by Western law enforcement and charged in cybercrimes. The 30-year-old, who lives in Odessa on the coast of the Black Sea, allegedly participated in criminal schemes by running a profitable “bulletproof hosting” business — servers that police supposedly can’t block or access — known as AbdAllah. Ukraine doesn’t extradite its own citizens, so Rytikov is theoretically safe as long as he stays close to home. But he vehemently denies any wrongdoing, and apparently wants to set the record straight. His lawyer in the U.S., Arkady Bukh, told CyberScoop he is negotiating with the Department of Justice about the possibility of standing trial in […]
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On Thursday, February 15, 2018, we may have finally reached the end of the Albert Gonzalez Databreach Saga. Vladimir Drinkman, age 37, was sentenced to 144 months in prison, after pleading guilty before U.S. District Judge Jerome Simandle in New… Continue reading Drinkman and Smilianets Sentenced: The End to Our Longest Databreach Saga?
Although often seen as an illegal cybercriminal tactic, the methodology behind fast flux is actually far from evil. So how is it being abused? Read on to learn more.
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That “short code” on the back of your credit card does make things harder for cybercrooks – but perhaps not that much harder. Continue reading How to guess credit card security codes
Here’s our latest security podcast – ransomware, bug hunting, keyloggers and a pair of cybercrime busts. Enjoy! Continue reading Justice by keylogger – the biter bit! [Chet Chat Podcast 250]
15 countries, 105 people, a pile of duty free shops, a stack of cloned cards…and €5 million in glitzy goods 
Continue reading Big “carding gang” bust announced by Europol: 105 arrests across 15 countries