Collaborate Disseminate
Henry Echefu admitted in a US courtroom to participating in a $200,000 business email compromise fraud scheme.
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Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov has pleaded guilty to holding key roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware operations.
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Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a Nigerian national, pleaded guilty in a US court to his involvement in a million-dollar BEC fraud scheme.
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Amir Golshan, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to perpetrating multiple cybercrime schemes using SIM swapping.
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Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the infamous cybercrime website BreachForums, has pleaded guilty in a US court.
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He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release. Continue reading Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty
Three men have pleaded guilty for their role in creating, operating and selling access to the “Mirai botnet,” a massive army of compromised internet-connected devices used last year to launch numerous distributed denial of service attacks against hosting companies, social media platforms and other online businesses. The defendants, Paras Jha, Josiah White and Dalton Norman, were each responsible for supporting an elaborate scheme that began with the creation of a scanning tool to find vulnerable devices connected to the internet, infect them with malware and then mobilize them into a cohesive botnet army capable of pushing excessive internet traffic onto a target in order to knock them offline. They guilty pleas were entered in a federal district court in Alaska, the Department of Justice said. Distributed denial of service attacks typically function through a centralized platform or operator who controls infected computers which can be used to flood digital properties with […]
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[James Liang], an engineer at Volkswagen for 33 years, plead guilty today to conspiracy. He was an engineer involved in delivering Diesel vehicles to market which could detect an emissions test scenario and perform differently from normal operation in order to pass US emission standards.
A year ago we talked about the Ethics in Engineering surrounding this issue. At the time we wondered why any engineer would go along with a plan to defraud customers. We may get an answer to this after all. [Mr. Liang] will cooperate with authorities as the VW probe continues.
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