Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
Romania Seizes Domain of the World’s Largest Private Torrent Site Filelist.ro…
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Police in Europe have arrested 26 people in an effort against two gangs of scammers who would take over victims’ phones, then steal financial and personal data from the devices. Law enforcement in Spain and Romania, in coordination with Europol, arrested 12 and 14 people, respectively, in actions against two distinct groups of SIM swappers, Europol announced Friday. SIM swapping occurs when thieves convince phone companies to give them access to an individual’s phone number, often by impersonating the victim during a call with a customer service representative. This grants attackers access to incoming phone calls, text messages and credentials like one-time codes that various sites send via text as part of the two-factor authentication process. The group in Spain stole more than €3 million ($3.34 million) in a series 100 attacks, Europol said. In each instance, the group walked off with between €6,000 ($6,700) and €137,000 ($153,000) from hacked bank […]
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Two Romanian hackers will be spending 20 and 18 years respectively in prison for infecting 400,000 computers.
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DOJ Press Release: 18 Members of International Fraud and Money Laundering Conspiracy
The Southern District of New York brought charges on 18 people for their involvement in an ATM Skimming ring that planted hundreds of skimming devices in at … Continue reading 18 Members of ATM Skimmer Gang Arrested — Mostly Romanian
A federal jury on Thursday convicted two Romanian nationals of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud, among other charges, for using malware to steal credit card information and sell it on underground websites. A 12-day trial found Bogdan Nicolescu and Radu Miclaus guilty on 21 counts. In addition to wire fraud and identity theft, they were convicted on money laundering and counterfeit charges. The men were accused of infecting and controlling over 400,000 computers, most of which were in the U.S., as part of the long-running fraud scheme that included cryptocurrency mining. The scheme also involved robbing people of millions of dollars by duping them into making fraudulent purchases on supposed auction sites. Prosecutors described a methodical enterprise that used stolen credit card numbers to rent server space, register domains, and pay for virtual private network services. Nicolescu and Miclaus, who are both in their 30s and from the Romanian […]
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Facebook says it shut down dozens of accounts, pages and groups intended to “engage in hate speech and spread divisive comments on both sides of the political debate” in the United Kingdom and in Romania. It’s the latest announcement in the social media giant’s campaign to reduce “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on sites that it owns. In a news release Thursday, the company said 23 pages, 74 Facebook accounts, 5 groups, and 35 Instagram accounts were affected in the U.K. sweep. A separate four pages, 26 Facebook accounts, and one group were shut down in Romania. “We didn’t find any links between these sets of activities, but they used similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing,” Facebook said. The company did not specify who ran the operations. The perpetrators’ general goal in the U.K. was political disruption, Facebook said, […]
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International authorities and the security company Bitdefender have released a new decryption tool meant to help people sidestep infections of the GandCrab ransomware, Europol announced Tuesday. The No More Ransom software initiative, which first began in 2016, is now enabling GandCrab victims to unlock their files for free without meeting extortionists’ demands. The updated No More Ransom software released Tuesday remedies GandCrab versions 5.0.4 through 5.1, which have infected victims since November 2018. “GandCrab has surpassed all other strains of ransomware in 2018, having infected over half a million victims since it was first detected in January last year,” Europol said in a statement. This particular No More Ransom tool was developed by Bitdefender in collaboration with Romanian police, Europol, and law enforcement from throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada. Previous versions of the software have been downloaded more than 400,000 times, decrypting information for nearly 10,000 victims to the tune of […]
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U.S. authorities on Thursday announced the indictment of 20 people and the extradition of a dozen in a big bust of an organized cybercrime ring in Romania. The defendants are accused of being part of an online auction scheme that defrauded Americans of millions of dollars. The racket involved advertising nonexistent cars and other purportedly valuable items on Craigslist and eBay and tricking victims into paying for them, often using stolen identities. The fraudsters then allegedly laundered their ill-gotten gains via cryptocurrency, the Department of Justice said in a statement. In a separate, cyber-focused indictment unsealed Thursday, one of the defendants, Adrian Mitan, is accused of phishing for customers’ credit and debit card information, breaching U.S. companies, and then doing a brute-force attack on point-of-sale systems to extract more card data. The 24-year-old Romanian allegedly told American money launderers to set up credit and debit card accounts with the stolen […]
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When I posted last month about a Romanian skimming case (see: “Alert Traffic Patrolman Unveils Romanian Skimming Ring”) I got two strong reactions. One was from my Romanian Information Security friends who wanted to remind me that not all Romania… Continue reading Romanians on a Skimming Crime Spree?
Clinton, Mississippi doesn’t sound like the kind of place where an international skimming operation would be operating. With a population of barely 25,000, the town in southwest Mississippi does have one thing that helped – an alert … Continue reading Alert Traffic Patrolman Unveils Romanian Skimming Ring