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Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian national, was arrested by FBI after conspiring to bribe a US company employee to manually install malware on the network of an unnamed Nevada-based company. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ) co… Continue reading FBI Arrests Russian ‘Tourist’ for Offering $1 million to US Employee to Plant Malware on Company Network
Joseph Sullivan allegedly paid off $100K to the hackers responsible for a 2016 data breach, which exposed PII of 57 million passengers and drivers. Continue reading Former Uber CSO Charged With Paying ‘Hush Money’ in 2016 Breach Cover-Up
U.S. officials have repeatedly expressed concern that China could use the 2014 and 2015 hacks of the Office of Personnel Management and health care insurer Anthem to build data profiles on Americans for intelligence recruitment (allegations Beijing denies). But TikTok, the popular video-sharing application, is a different type of data collection opportunity for China because Americans are willingly handing the information over, a senior Department of Justice official alleged Wednesday. “[Y]ou have an instance of Americans voluntarily signing onto this product as opposed to the Chinese stealing the data or the Chinese buying the data,” said John Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security. “And that’s what the recent executive order was meant to address,” Demers said, referring to the Aug. 6 directive from President Donald Trump that will ban transactions with ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, and Tencent, another Chinese tech firm, starting Sept. 20. TikTok, which is […]
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A Moldovan man on Friday became the second person in as many months to plead guilty to being part of Infraud, a $568 million cybercriminal enterprise that stole payment cards and personal data from around the world, the U.S. Department of Justice said. 30-year-old Valerian Chiochiu, who allegedly trained Infraud members on writing and deploying malware, appeared before a judge in federal court in Nevada, U.S. officials said. Chiochiu’s guilty plea follows that of Sergey Medvedev, a 33-year-old Russian, who is accused of being the group’s co-founder. The pleas are part of the ongoing U.S. effort to prosecute Infraud, which Department of Justice officials say victimized people in all 50 states. At its height, Infraud aspired to be the internet’s top spot for “carding,” or buying things with stolen credit card data. It amassed more than 10,000 members, and claimed to only allow vetted vendors of stolen data to advertise […]
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A 32-year old California man was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a million-dollar scheme involving stolen identities of United States service members and veterans. During his trial, Trorice Crawford admitted that he an… Continue reading San Diego Resident Receives 46 Months after Pleading Guilty to Million-Dollar Scam Involving the Stolen Identities of Military Members
The carding store victimized mainly U.S. citizens and is responsible for $20 million in fraudulent purchases. Continue reading ‘Cardplanet’ Operator Sentenced to 9 Years for Selling Stolen Credit Cards
eBay’s tumble into an ignoble existence has been fast and furious. This past week we saw six former eBay executives charged with cyberstalking, all of whom had been fired following the company’s August 2019 investigation into allegations they ha… Continue reading eBay Employees Charged With Cyberstalking Critics
An internal investigation into the 2016 CIA breach condemned the agency’s security measures, saying it “focused more on building up cyber tools than keeping them secure.” Continue reading Theft of CIA’s ‘Vault 7’ Secrets Tied to ‘Woefully Lax” Security
Should law enforcement agencies be alerted every time a potential breach occurs? The DoJ thinks so. At a hearing on March 4 before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Department of Justice (DoJ) Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Asset P… Continue reading DoJ Calls for Mandatory Data Breach Reporting to Law Enforcement
Scammers who have been taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic by spreading COVID-19-themed spearphishing emails have caught the attention of the Department of Justice. In a memo sent to all U.S. attorneys Monday, Attorney General William Barr prioritized prosecuting cybercriminals seeking to exploit fears about the coronavirus. “The pandemic is dangerous enough without wrongdoers seeking to profit from public panic and this sort of conduct cannot be tolerated,” Barr said in the memo, which CyberScoop has obtained. For months, scammers have been impersonating health authorities such as the World Health Organization or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in order to send malware in coronavirus-themed spearphishing emails to victims worried about infection or community spread of the virus. Some campaigns have targeted populations especially affected by the virus, including Italy and Iran, according to security researchers. Iran’s own ministry of health has been urging citizens to download an app […]
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