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Aleksei Burkov allegedly ran Cardplanet, advertised as the only shop with a guarantee: your stolen card will work, or you get a new one! Continue reading Alleged mastermind behind $20m stolen-card site extradited to US
Aventura Technologies and seven of its executives have been charged with illegally importing Chinese-made security and surveillance equipment and claiming it to be made in the United States. The company, based in Commack, New York, claimed its securit… Continue reading Aventura Charged With Selling Chinese-Made Security Equipment
An alleged fraudster built a vast web of AWS cloud accounts, becoming the platform’s biggest consumer of data resources. Continue reading Cryptomining Crook Steals Game Developer’s Identity to Carry Out Dirty Work
Girlfriend found it, girlfriend popped it onto a city bus, gadget got found, multiyear investigation got launched, 20 got indicted. Continue reading GPS tracker from stalked woman’s car led to indictment of 20 mobsters
The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company. Continue reading Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted
Former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who was arrested last month in relation to the Capital One data breach, has been accused of hacking not only the U.S. credit card issuer, but also more than 30 other companies.
An indictment unsealed on Wednesday… Continue reading Capital One Hacker Also Accused of Hacking 30 More Companies and CryptoJacking
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of three Americans, an Australian, and a South Korean for their alleged involvement in a plot to steal millions of dollars from current and former American military personnel. The scheme targeted thousands of people, many of whom were elderly or disabled, and involved the compromise of a U.S. Defense Department portal that military members use to access their benefits online, law enforcement officials said. Robert Wayne Boling Jr., Frederick Brown, Trorice Crawford, Allan Albert Kerr, and Jongmin Seok were charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Three of the accused were arrested in the Philippines, while the other two were apprehended in the U.S. Lawyers for the defendants could not be reached for comment. The fraud operation allegedly began in 2014, when one defendant, Brown, was working as a “medical records technician” at a U.S. Army base […]
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A former software engineer at a locomotive manufacturer in Illinois stole intellectual property from the company and took it to China, according to a U.S. Department of Justice inductment made public this week. The 57-year-old engineer, Xudong “William” Yao, has been charged with nine counts of related to the alleged theft of trade secrets, the Department of Justice said Thursday. The indictment returned by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleges a months-long scheme by Yao to steal more than 3,000 electronic files including source code, technical documents and other sensitive data from the unnamed manufacturing company. Within two weeks of joining the company, located in suburban Chicago, in August 2014, Yao downloaded proprietary data detailing locomotive operating systems, according to the indictment. That activity continued for six months before Yao ultimately accepted a job at a company in China that made automotive telematics service systems, U.S. officials alleged. […]
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Six alleged members of “The Community” were indicted, along with three phone service employees who allegedly helped target subscribers. Continue reading Hacking gang stole millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swaps
Law enforcement officials from the U.S. and some European allies say they have broken up a criminal network that used banking malware to try to steal an estimated $100 million from over 41,000 victims in multiple countries. An indictment made public Thursday alleges that 10 members of a criminal organization used the GozNym malware, a banking trojan that infects internet browsers and was compiled from two other known pieces of malware, to steal victims’ login credentials, steal their money and then launder those funds through U.S. and foreign bank accounts. The primary victims were U.S. businesses and their supporting financial institutions, including several victims in the Western District of Pennsylvania, U.S. officials said. Other organizations hit were a Pennsylvania asphalt and paving business, a Washington law firm, a casino in Gulport, Mississippi, and a California furniture business, according to the indictment. Cybersecurity researchers tracking GozNym in recent years have reported its targeting of credit […]
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