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The bureau is working to gain additional information about the reported cyberattack.
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The arrest comes as the U.S. ramps up efforts to crack down on attempts by cybercriminals to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions.
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The arrest comes as the U.S. ramps up efforts to crack down on attempts by cybercriminals to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions.
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Federal law enforcement arrested a Manhattan couple Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency stolen in a 2016 hack of virtual cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. The Department of Justice said it so far has seized more than $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the hack, its largest recovery to date. The complaint accuses Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering the money over a course of five years, sometimes into their own financial accounts. The DOJ’s announcement does not specify if they were allegedly involved in the initial hack itself. Justice Department officials described the arrest as a warning to criminals trying to use virtual currencies to hide their tracks. “Today’s arrests, and the department’s largest financial seizure ever, show that cryptocurrency is not a safe haven for criminals,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said in a statement. “Thanks to the meticulous […]
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U.S. law enforcement recovered nearly $3.7 million in fraud proceeds and charged more than 30 individuals for their alleged involvement in receiving or transferring illicit proceeds over the past 10 weeks. The arrests, announced Friday, were part of the Justice Department’s “Money Mule Initiative,” which is aimed at cracking down on Americans who assist international fraudsters in moving funds from victims of a wide variety of fraud efforts, including romance scams and business email compromise schemes. The initiative in total targeted 4,757 individuals involved in “money mule” activity, more than twice the number of individuals reached by last year’s initiative. Actions were taken in all 50 states. Twenty-five members of Europol also cooperated in the action. “Every time an individual who has previously been operating as a money mule stops doing so, foreign fraudsters are forced to expend time and effort rebuilding that infrastructure differently,” said a Justice Department official […]
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The FBI arrested a former employee of a U.S. technology company for allegedly breaching and stealing confidential data from his employer and then extorting the company for nearly $2 million. The defendant, Nickolas Sharp, after allegedly stealing sensitive information posed as a whistleblower to plant misleading news about the company’s breach, according to an indictment released Wednesday. The articles caused the company’s share price to drop, costing it to lose market value, according to the Justice Department. The indictment does not mention the company where Sharp worked, though the timeline and details of the incident match up with a breach of router company Ubiquiti discovered in January. An anonymous whistleblower accused the company of covering up the incident in March, matching with the FBI’s account of Sharp’s actions. Sharp’s LinkedIn confirms he worked at Ubiquiti at the time. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. […]
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The U.S. Justice Department and Europol announced Tuesday the arrest of 150 individuals allegedly involved in the sale of illegal drugs and other illicit goods on the dark web. The sweeping campaign, named Operation Dark HunTor, spanned 10 months, three continents, and involved more than 12 international law enforcement agencies. The sting confiscated 200,000 pills in the United States, 90% of which were found to contain counterfeit opiods or other narcotics. U.S. law enforcement made 36 arrests across 13 states and the District of Columbia. Law enforcement seized over $31.6 million in cash and virtual currencies, 45 firearms and 234 kilograms of drugs, including enough fentanyl for more than 4 million lethal doses according to deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco. The number of deaths related to drug overdoses in the U.S. climbed by 29% in 2o20, up to 93,331 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Opiods […]
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A federal judge sentenced a New York man to three years in federal prison for hacking the accounts of dozens of female college students to access private nude photos, the Justice Department said Thursday. Nicholas Farber, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in February to working with a co-conspirator between 2017 to 2019 to access the school emails of dozens of female SUNY Plattsburgh students. He then leveraged access to those accounts in order to access students’ Facebook, Snapchat and cloud accounts from which he stole private nude photographs and movies. Farber then traded the images online with an unnamed number of individuals. He was charged with computer fraud and aggravated identity theft for the hacking. Farber, a SUNY Plattsburgh graduate, is also ordered to pay $35,430 in restitution to the school for the costs of investigating and resetting the compromised accounts and then notifying victims. Farber’s accomplice, Michael Fish, pleaded guilty […]
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DOJ charges six Russian nationals for their alleged part in the NotPetya, Ukraine power grid and Olympics cyberattacks. Continue reading DOJ Charges 6 Sandworm APT Members in NotPetya Cyberattacks
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a wide-ranging operation to map and disrupt a botnet linked to North Korea that has infected numerous computers across the globe over the last decade. Through a search warrant and court order, the department inflicted a potentially damaging blow to the so-called Joanap botnet, which U.S. officials attributed to the North Korean government. The search warrant allowed the FBI to control servers that mimicked computers within the botnet, giving the bureau a clearer picture of the zombie computer army and the ability to alert victims. Joanap is malware that targets Microsoft Windows. It works in tandem with a worm dubbed Brambul that stalks computers, looking for a vulnerable way in, the Justice Department said in a press release. “Once installed on an infected computer, Joanap would allow the North Korean hackers to remotely access infected computers,” giving them root-level access and the chance to […]
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