Collaborate Disseminate
A former high-ranking lawyer at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is going to jail for four years after stealing the identities of US immigrants. Continue reading Immigrant identity thief and ICE lawyer gets four years
Operation Wire Wire Cases
Operation Wire Wire was announced June 11, 2018 by the Department of Justice. This Operation led to the arrest of 42 people in the United States and 29 others in Nigeria, Poland, Canada, Mauritius, Indonesia, and … Continue reading 74 (Mostly Nigerians) Arrested in Business Email Compromise Action
A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from January 1 to January 8, including Meltdown and Spectre updates, miners, wire fraud refunds, and fake apps on Google Play.
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Tags: cryptominingm… Continue reading A week in security (January 1-8)
Fraudsters are increasingly targeting potential home buyers and real estate professionals with wire fraud schemes and phishing scams. In May 2017, the FBI revealed that the identified exposed losses resulting from business email compromise (BEC) scams increased by 2,370 percent between January 2015 and December 2016. Those scams preyed on organizations in all 50 states […]… Read More
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The IT admin demanded $10,000, when he didn’t get it things got X-rated Continue reading “Admin from Hell” holds company to ransom with porn makeover
Victims of whaling attack not named, but it’s not the first time a big multinational has been targeted, and it won’t be the last Continue reading Man charged with $100m ‘whaling’ attack on two US tech giants
Google says it will always ‘push back’ when asked for ‘excessively broad requests for data’ Continue reading Sweeping dragnet search warrant given the go-ahead by judge
Michael Persaud faces 10 counts of wire fraud, each punishable by up to 20 years in jail Continue reading ‘World’s eighth-worst spammer sent more than a million emails’
This year’s variation on the CEO scam goes after W-2 forms and then adds a wire fraud on top Continue reading Beware the latest tax-season spear-phishing scam
Dell SecureWorks today published a report at Black Hat USA 2016 on a Nigerian Business Email Compromise scam called “wire-wire”, or “waya-waya.” Continue reading Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam