Collaborate Disseminate
Before and after photos of Qasym-Zhomart Tokayev suggest the interim president’s appearance has been beautified. Continue reading Kazakhstan’s President Needs to Go Easy on the Photoshopping
U.S. prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York filed a 13-count cybercrime indictment Tuesday against the suspected orchestrators of a scheme to defraud internet advertisers out of tens of millions of dollars. The indictment accuses the eight defendants, who hail from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, with criminal violations including wire fraud, computer intrusion, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. The list includes Aleksander Zhukov, one of the Department of Justice’s recent high-profile cybercrime arrests. The group between September 2014 and December 2016 ran a purported advertising network, called “Ad Network #1,” that used 1,900 computer servers to load ads on more than 5,000 fabricated websites, prosecutors said. Defendants also leased some 650,000 IP addresses to falsify billions of visits to those fake websites, charging real companies for ads that real humans never viewed, the indictment alleges. “As alleged in court filings, the defendants in this case used sophisticated computer programming and infrastructure […]
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EFF has the story of malware from the Kazakhstan government against "journalists and political activists critical of Kazakhstan’s authoritarian government, along with their family members, lawyers, and associates."… Continue reading Malware from Kazakhstan