Collaborate Disseminate
A prolific Kazakh hacker known as ”fxmsp” has been charged with several US federal crimes for allegedly hacking the computer networks of a broad array of entities, including businesses, educational institutions, and governments throughout t… Continue reading Kazakh Hacker Known as ‘fxmsp’ Faces 45 Years Behind Bars
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, sentenced 50-year-old Turhan Lemont Armstrong to more than 21 years in federal prison yesterday for running a $3.3 million credit card, loan and real estate fraud scheme. According to authorities, the Los Angelas-a… Continue reading Child Identity Thief Receives 259 Months in Federal Prison after Running a $3.3 Million Scheme
The creator of the Satori/Okiru, Masuta and Tsunami/Fbot botnets has been sentenced to prison for compromising hundreds of thousands of devices. Continue reading Satori Botnet Creator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
On an average day, cybercriminals visiting the Darkode darkweb forum would expect to enter an underground, invitation-only digital marketplace to buy, sell, and trade malware, access to botnets, and stolen personal information. However, in July 2015, users were instead confronted with the emblems of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and EUROPOL’s European Cyber Crime Center (EC3) instead of the Darkode homepage. A large, bold warning surrounded by the official seals of 17 additional international police departments prominently proclaimed, “This domain and website have been seized.” This was the culmination of a multi-year joint undercover operation by U.S. and international law enforcement from 20 countries who searched, charged, or arrested 70 of the forum’s members worldwide and indicted 12 individuals with computer fraud conspiracy. This joint effort, known as Operation Shrouded Horizon, exemplifies the collaboration needed to counter the increasingly complex and diffuse […]
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Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the individual who allegedly breached the human resource database of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2014 was arrested in Michigan. In a press release, the DOJ accuses Justin S… Continue reading Man Accused of Selling Personal Information of 65,000 UPMC Employees Arrested in Michigan
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to use every arrow in its prosecutorial quiver to go after those participants who are exposing and sharing U.S. research and technologies to China via the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Th… Continue reading DoJ Continues to Target China’s Thousand Talents Program in U.S.
The FBI’s Apple problem. Continue reading FBI finally unlock shooter’s iPhones, Apple berated for not helping
Due to the troublesome spread of coronavirus-themed scams and malware attacks, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a nationwide campaign to detect, inhibit and punish any fraudulent or malicious online activity. “It is essential that th… Continue reading Department of Justice goes after scammers exploiting Coronavirus pandemic
A vaccine for $4.95!? Nah, we didn’t think so, either. Shuttering the alleged rip-off site is the DOJ’s 1st takedown of COVID-19 flimflam. Continue reading Feds shut down bogus COVID-19 vaccine site
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Cybersecurity Unit has released guidelines for organizations that want to gather cyber threat intelligence from dark web forums/markets but, at the same time, want to stay on the right side of the (U.S. federal criminal… Continue reading How to gather cyber threat intelligence from dark markets without breaking US law