The Romanian authorities are undergoing a massive effort to dismantle cybercriminal groups operating in the country. During the last ten days, two series of arrests and raids related to credit-card fraud were performed in major Romanian cities. On September 9, the Romanian Direction for Investigating Organized Crime... |
18 September 2009
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The down economy will only serve to fuel the growth of cybercrime, Microsoft warns. According to Roger Halbheer, chief security advisor of Microsoft EMEA, while the global economic crisis can contribute decisively to legitimate enterprises failing, it will also provide the fertile soil for cybercriminals to flourish.... |
23 April 2009
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It looks like crybecriminal organizations everywhere are receiving blow after blow. After having lost two of their major hosting providers in the U.S., online crooks are about to lose their favorite domain registrar, too. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced that ending the Registrar ... |
13 November 2008
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Security researchers, anti-spam groups and the whole security community in general were taken by surprise yesterday when reports of a sudden drop in junk mail activity started flowing in. This was the result of ISPs depeering McColo Corp., a U.S. based company offering web hosting services to many international cyber... |
12 November 2008
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The Estonian-based domain registrar EstDomains was outed a long time ago by numerous security groups for providing domain registration services to cyber-criminals. An official letter sent a few days ago by Stacy K. Burnette, Director of Contractual Compliance at ICANN, informs the President of EstDomains Inc., Vladim... |
29 October 2008
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Following a collaborated effort from security researchers, anti-spam groups and online media to disclose the connection between cyber criminal groups and Intercage Inc., all its ISPs were pressured by bad publicity or their own clients to sever ties with the California based company. Their last remaining ISP, Pacific... |
23 September 2008
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Microsoft is little shy of getting into the front lines in the fight against cybercrime. Illustrative examples in this case are the company's Internet Safety Enforcement Team as well as the Law Enforcement Technology 2008 conference. LE Tech 2008, a three-day event hosted by the Redmond company, has seen approxi... |
29 April 2008
05:59 GMT |
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After seeing out how several warnings sent to a number of countries that have been the most productive in phishing attacks hit a brick wall, eBay burst and warned that there must be something more that can be done to stop fraudsters from targeting auction sites. Alongside Romania, which was nominated as having the bi... |
11 March 2008
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