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The conference call between the FBI and the UK Metropolitan Police, leaked by Anonymous a few days ago, didn’t cause concern only among law enforcement agencies. Now, a Sheffield Member of Parliament (MP), David Blunkett, demands an apology after the British agents mocked Sheffield in the call with their US cou... |
13 February 2012
05:32 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has published a file on Steven Paul Jobs, the late co-founder and “leader” of Apple Inc. The 191-page document reveals quite a few interesting facts.
For example, in 1991, Jobs was considered for an appointed position on the U.S. President's Export Council. The fi... |
9 February 2012
10:56 GMT |
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The latest stunt pulled by Anonymous hacktivists raised a lot of concerns among the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and they admit that cyberattacks may soon become a bigger threat than even terrorist attacks.
According to Mobiledia, FBI’s director Robert Muller admitted in front of the US Senate that t... |
8 February 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Just like the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick spied on the FBI agents that were investigating him back in the days when he used to illegally access the networks of phone companies, Anonymous hacktivist obtained a recording of a conference call between FBI agents and UK law enforcement officers.
A Pastebin document reve... |
3 February 2012
10:20 GMT |
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MegaUpload is dead, at least for now. Unfortunately for many users so are the files stored there. Fortunately for pirates, everything is still available on the large number of other cyberlocker sites, over BitTorrent and so on. Unfortunately for legitimate users, their files likely are not available on other places.
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2 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Mega file-sharing and hosting site MegaUpload is dead, at least for now. In a coordinated effort, law enforcement authorities have seized several domains belonging to the company, raided data centers that were hosting the sits and arrested several employees. Authorities also seized goods and bank accounts belonging t... |
20 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
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After news got out that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) took down the Megaupload sites, Anonymous hacktivists became furious and almost immediately initiated what some call the largest attack ever, launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against major government and media industry representative web... |
20 January 2012
03:34 GMT |
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One of the programmers contracted to develop a piece of software called Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) has been arrested for stealing part of the source code for which the United States spent $9.5 Million (€6.6 Million).
The FBI released a... |
19 January 2012
10:27 GMT |
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Santa Claus would have probably not visited Dell and NVIDIA this past Christmas if he knew that NVIDIA and Dell hadn't been all that good.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested several Dell and NVIDIA employees on charges of having participated in insider trading.
FBI arrested seven men in... |
19 January 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Two Russians, father and son, have been extradited from Switzerland to the US after they were caught running a fraudulent operation which helped them illegally earn a few hundred thousand dollars.
According to the FBI, 54-year-old Vladimir Zdorovenin and his son Kirill Zdorovenin now face charges of conspiracy, mail... |
19 January 2012
04:00 GMT |
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The latest 419 scam email pretends to come from the FBI’s Executive Deputy Director, accusing recipients of performing a large number of illegal transactions.
The phony email bears the subject "You are on the FBI wanted persons list. Reply now to clear your name," and warns the recipient that due to the large ... |
16 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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From January 9 through 12, 2012, Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus hosts the third annual International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS 2012), an event where the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Fordham University unite global experts of the industry to discuss matters such as cybercrime and cyber... |
9 January 2012
05:34 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released an advisory to warn Internet users of a new phishing campaign that relies on fake emails coming from legitimate organizations to spread a piece of malware called Gameover.
The malicious emails may come from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), ... |
9 January 2012
04:35 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged 16 individuals with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal forfeiture after they were identified as selling fictitious vehicles online. On December 14, thirteen of the suspects were apprehended in Las Vegas and... |
19 December 2011
04:27 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in collaboration with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) apprehended a 54 year old Ukrainian retired general and two of his accomplices while they were trying to withdraw $1 million (700,000 EUR) from CEC Bank, money obtained as a result of cyberfraud operations. Valer... |
16 December 2011
11:14 GMT |
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As a response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) stated that they couldn’t give out too much information on the matter of Carrier IQ since it may interfere with one of their ongoing investigations. In a recent interview given to The Verge, C... |
13 December 2011
05:35 GMT |
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An international cybercriminal operation was terminated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in collaboration with the Bulgarian authorities. The members of the gang are suspected of sending phishing emails that were allegedly coming from financial institutions to individuals from the US with the purpose of ... |
10 December 2011
07:09 GMT |
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On November 10, the world found out that the FBI arrested six Estonians for allegedly running the largest, most sophisticated cybercriminal scheme the world has ever seen so far. After two years of intense investigations conducted by the FBI in collaboration with Trend Micro, the operation was shut down, but the da... |
2 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Speaking on behalf of the FBI at the Flemings Cyber Security conference, the deputy assistant director of the Bureau’s Cyber Division admitted that the infrastructures of three cities were illegally accessed by hackers who made use of vulnerabilities in supervisory control and data acquisitions (SCADA) systems.... |
1 December 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Internet users might find in their inboxes a message that allegedly comes from the Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, threatening them with imprisonment if they didn't pay a certain amount of money.
This turns out to be a scam in which someone invested a lot of e... |
22 November 2011
10:00 GMT |
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A Special Agent Supervisor of the CA Department of Justice is the latest victim of Anonymous who claims that their operations against the FBI succeeded once again after managing to hack two of his Gmail accounts.As a result, 38,000 emails containing “detailed computer forensics techniques, investigation protoco... |
19 November 2011
07:14 GMT |
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The US Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the police and military cybercrime units were targeted by Anonymous who managed to get away with close to a dozen emails and voicemail transcripts representing conversations between the organizations' staff members.
In one of the emails, an empl... |
18 November 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Six Estonians were arrested by the FBI for allegedly running the largest, most sophisticated international cyber criminal scheme the world has ever seen. While the crooks earned millions, the computers of individuals and organizations from 100 countries were infected with malicious software.
Operation Ghost Click en... |
10 November 2011
03:00 GMT |
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The Balkan country will be aided by a special FBI agent in their battles against cybercriminals, according to an announcement made during a US visit of the Bulgarian Interior Minister.Local news agency Novinite claims that the country's Main Directorate for Fighting Organized Crime (GDBOP) will be assisted by th... |
9 November 2011
11:19 GMT |
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Nothing is certain yet, but it seems that in 2007, an FBI assistant legal attaché in Germany was asked by local authorities about an IP address verifying tool that was at the time deployed by the Bureau to track a bomb threat.
According to Wired, the request was made two years prior to the date the Germans ... |
14 October 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Microsoft is no longer leading the hunt for the cybercriminals behind the Rustock botnet, but they should by no means breathe easily, since a new, more formidable adversary is now chasing them down. Richard Domingues Boscovich, Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit announced that as the Redmond company won ... |
23 September 2011
07:56 GMT |
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Federal and state agencies unite their forces to put and end to the deeds of the infamous hackers who are now considered to be a well-organized group that might present a threat to national security.
If up until now, it was believed that Anonymous was a leaderless organization, with a bunch of individuals that sha... |
19 September 2011
06:02 GMT |
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LulzSec and Anonymous have published an open letter addressed to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in which they boldly claim that they can't be stopped.In their letter, the hackers comment statements made by FBI deputy assistant director Steve Chabinsky following the recent Anonymous and LulzSec-relate... |
21 July 2011
10:07 GMT |
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FBI arrested sixteen individuals believed to have participated in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and hacking attacks instrumented by Anonymous and LulzSec.According to the Department of Justice, fourteen suspects were involved in a DDoS attack against PayPal's website launched after the company blocked don... |
20 July 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Three suspected Anonymous members from New York had their houses raided by the FBI earlier today in connection with an investigation into distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.According to Fox News, FBI agents executed search warrants at an address in Baldwin, New York, one in Long Island and one in Brooklyn. ... |
19 July 2011
10:59 GMT |
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The FBI has shut down two international cyber crime operations focused on the distribution of scareware applications and responsible for over losses of over $74 million.Under the name "Operation Trident Tribunal," the FBI, assisted by law enforcement agencies from Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Netherlands, Cyprus, France... |
23 June 2011
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The FBI has remotely uninstalled coreflood botnet clients from a number of 19,000 computers in a first-of-its-kind law enforcement operation.Coreflood is one of the oldest botnets, dating back to 2002. During its life it infected a total of 2.3 million computers and from March 2009 to February 2010 alone it stole 190... |
22 June 2011
12:29 GMT |
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LulzSec, the group of hackers that recently made the news headlines with cyber attacks against Sony and PBS, has hacked into the Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, an organization set up as a partnership between private businesses and the FBI.InfraGard's purpose is to facilitate the sharing of counterterrorism, count... |
4 June 2011
06:00 GMT |
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A new malware distribution campaign is producing rogue emails purporting to come from the FBI and attempting to scare users into opening malicious attachments.Cyber criminals behind this attack are hoping to scare people into believing they are being investigated by federal authorities because they accessed illegal o... |
4 May 2011
04:57 GMT |
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The FBI has obtained a preliminary injunction allowing it to remotely uninstall Coreflood botnet clients from computers with permission from their owners.
Earlier this month the FBI launched a first-of-a-kind operation to take down a large computer botnet that has been in existence since as far back as 2002.
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28 April 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Earlier this week the FBI arrested 74 members and associates of the Armenian Power (AP) gang, for being involved in a variety of crimes including identity theft, bank fraud, credit card skimming and check counterfeiting.The majority of arrested suspects are named as defendants in two indictments returned by federal j... |
19 February 2011
04:58 GMT |
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The FBI plans to execute over forty search warrants around the country to seize computers connected with Anonymous-organized DDoS attacks against PayPal and other companies.A FBI spokesperson confirmed the existence of the search warrants, but refused to say how many of them were already executed, according to the Sa... |
28 January 2011
11:36 GMT |
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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a joint project between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), has issued a warning that cybercriminals are responding to job ads with fake emails carrying trojans hidden as CVs.In order to outline the seriousness of this threat, the center presents a cas... |
20 January 2011
04:44 GMT |
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A software and video games pirate has just been sentenced to 2 and a half years in federal prison, as well as forced to pay over $360,000 as forfeiture for his actions by a court in Ohio.
It seems that Qiang "Michael" Bi, a 36 year old resident of Powell, Ohio, was the mastermind of a serious games and software pi... |
30 December 2010
17:21 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan is terrified: for a while now, she and other family members have been receiving threatening e-mails and text messages, and Dina is so worried that the stalker may act on them that she’s gotten the FBI involved. It turns out that, when Lohan filed for a protection order against the paparazzi earlie... |
21 December 2010
03:48 GMT |
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Since Christmas really is getting closer by the day, the IT industry figured it would bring forth another present in the shape of a new set of legal procedures, this time involving AMD and TSMC, among others.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is, as consumers know, the primary manufacturer of both AMD... |
17 December 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Wikipedia is no stranger to all manner of lawsuits. Being one of the largest websites in the world and relying exclusively on contributors for content has its risks. But getting a notice from a British museum is one thing, getting one from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is quite another. Surprisingly tho... |
3 August 2010
06:06 GMT |
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The FBI failed to break the encryption protecting the data of a high profile banker investigated in the largest corruption and money laundering case in Brazilian history. The Bureau's experts gave up twelve months after receiving the seized equipment from the Brazilian authorities.In July 2008, the Brazilian Fed... |
29 June 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Andrew Auernheimer, a key member of Goatse Security, has been arrested on a number of felony charges that are unrelated to the group’s exploitation of an AT&T security hole that exposed the email addresses of tens of thousands of iPad 3G owners. Auernheimer, also known as “Escher,” or “Weev&rd... |
18 June 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Many times, copyright holders, including major videogame publishers, have said that piracy costs them a lot both in terms of jobs and revenue loss with figures in the billions being bandied around. But it seems that even the United States government, represented by the Government Accountability Office and the Intelle... |
19 April 2010
13:11 GMT |
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April 6, 2010 was a bad day for Romania's cybercrooks. In a joint US-Romanian investigation, Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) sent out over 700 policemen in a nation-wide crack down on eBay fraudsters.Carrying out 101 search and arrest warrants, investigators br... |
8 April 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Reports are coming in saying an FBI official confirmed that the bureau would be opening up a criminal investigation over claims that Lower Merion School District officials used school-issued laptop computers to illegally spy on their students. Neowin reports that an unnamed FBI official has spoken to The Associated P... |
22 February 2010
05:55 GMT |
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About a week ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that, under the Freedom of Information Act, it would go public with a 300+-page file it had on Michael Jackson ever since he was first accused of molestation. Expectations were set high that said document would shed some light into Michael’s death ... |
23 December 2009
06:05 GMT |
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In the wake of the joint investigation carried out by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s San Francisco Field Office and the FBI in San Francisco, six companies have pleaded guilty so far or agreed to plead guilty when charged with participating in the LCD price-fixing conspiracy, which ran between S... |
10 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
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On September 9th, this year, Symantec will be launching its new Internet Security Suite with some innovative, new protection and reporting features. Attacked users will have the option to report real-time attacks and/or attackers to proper authorities, while also being weekly informed of the FBI's top 10 most wa... |
8 September 2009
04:12 GMT |
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