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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
11:56 GMT |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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World of Warcraft is the most popular MMORPG in the world, scoring almost 11,5 million paying subscribers every month. Out of all these people, you can definitely imagine that some of them aren't really the brightest tools in the box. Such is the case with an 18-year-old boy from Johnson County, Indiana, who de... |
15 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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US experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently announced that they are in the latter stages of developing a new investigation technique that will help forensics specialists in the manual portion of the latent fingerprint identification. This would free up a lot of time for the... |
24 April 2009
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations is currently alleging that University of Florida (UF) professor Samim Anghaie, along with other family members, have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from governmental funds, which were awarded to a company the family ran, but which was illegal. Since 1999, NASA, the US Air... |
27 February 2009
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In the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony, the Federal Bureau of Investigations pulled out its biggest and best equipment out of the garage, and set it loose on the streets of Washington. Needless to say, there will be FBI agents everywhere, on rooftops, balconies, but, most of all, on t... |
19 January 2009
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As you know, Brandon Michael Darby, one of the figures that played a very important role in the Common Ground Relief organization, was recently proved to be an FBI informant, as he himself admitted in an open letter. An e-mail that arrived today at Softpedia from the grass-root organization tells their side of the st... |
9 January 2009
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In a recent turn of events, Common Grounds co-founder, Brandon Michael Darby, has come forward and announced that he has been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for the past couple of years, although many details are still left out from his open letter. He publicly admitted being responsible for ... |
5 January 2009
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Trying to benefit from the reputation and authority of certain government institutions is nothing new to online scammers. However, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns via a publicly available intelligence note that FBI officials in particular have found themselves at the center of several recent spam camp... |
11 December 2008
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The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a warning about a vulnerability in the Asterisk open source telephony engine that can supposedly allow attackers to compromise legit VoIP servers and perform thousands of fake phone calls per hour. Digium, the company behind Asterisk, says the warning is... |
8 December 2008
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The FBI executed a search warrant and raided the house of 19-year-old Josh Holly, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who is suspected of hacking into the e-mail and MySpace account of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, the lead actress from the popular Disney series Hannah Montana, and posting stolen provocative pictures belonging to th... |
23 October 2008
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Earlier this week a German radio unmasked an FBI undercover operation on a popular underground forum used by cybercriminals to sell stolen banking information and equipment used for credit card fraud. The FBI confirmed the operation in a press release, outlining the results so far and their future plans.As we previou... |
18 October 2008
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The DarkMarket.ws forum, a well known home for credit card fraudsters and skimmers has been under the control of the FBI since 2006. The sting operation has been revealed by reporter Kai Laufen from the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) German radio station. According to several documents leaked from the German nation... |
15 October 2008
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The Entertainment Software Association, the trade association which represents the video game publishers active in the United States, has endorsed the decision of the United States Congress to approve a bill called the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008, also known as the PR... |
15 October 2008
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David C. Kernell, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally accessing the e-mail account of the US republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin. The alleged hacker faces a maximum of five years in prison and a ... |
9 October 2008
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The FBI has decided to take more measures to fend off the wave of spam attacks in which the sender pretends to be a hitman hired to kill the recipient of the email, or a loved one. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a branch of the federal authority, has released an official note, advising people not to liste... |
29 August 2008
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A blogger has been arrested by the FBI because he was hosting, on his personal webpage, nine songs from the Guns n' Roses yet to be released “Chinese Democracy” album. In fact, the tracks were uploaded in June and they were removed that same month, both because of several server failures, caused by t... |
28 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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We previously reported on the arrest of a teenage Dutch, who had created the Shadow botnet. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit and the FBI worked together to solve the case of the malicious network, which is reported to be responsible for the infection of over 100,000 machines. The Brazilian conspirator in the Shadow bot... |
22 August 2008
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FBI warns users not to open any emails that are headed by the "FBI vs. Facebook" subject. They do not contain any information regarding a lawsuit, an investigation, or other activity that the two parts could be involved in. Clicking on the eye-catching titled emails will result in users being infected with a storm wo... |
4 August 2008
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the European Commission are close to coming to a conclusion in an agreement that would allow the American organization to access private EU citizen data such as credit card history and frequently visited web pages. Privacy organizations are strongly contesting this agreement a... |
1 July 2008
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Hackers and phishers don't rest until they devise a new scheme, by which they can force honest web users into giving them their personal information. A number of phishing schemes have recently been reported that appear to use a scenario based on recent worldwide events. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has re... |
13 May 2008
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The United States government is reportedly using no less than 3500 fake Cisco-branded network devices, including routers, network switches and hubs. According to the investigation results, the fake devices are worth up to $3.5 million. The FBI has been keeping an eye on the China imports of networking gear for some t... |
12 May 2008
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During the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives meeting held on Wednesday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations has offered a sneak preview of its upcoming actions to fight crime in the cyberspace. During the meeting, the US congressman Darrell Issa tackled the topic of online crimes and of how the ... |
25 April 2008
06:12 GMT |
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In what could very well be the most shocking discovery of the year, it has just been revealed that a Marilyn Monroe sex tape recently hit the upper echelons of the memorabilia market. The NY Post, which broke the exclusive story, reveals that the 15-minute film footage reportedly depicting Marilyn performing oral sex... |
14 April 2008
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"Did you do it?""No!""FBI, we have the documentation right here!""Oh, all right, I might have…"That's the short version of the announcement the Federal Bureau of Investigation made today, paving the way for the audit to be issued on the 9th of March this year. The abuse allegedly was a result of investigations a... |
6 March 2008
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The FBI and international authorities have put an end to one of the most sophisticated global child pornography rings encountered in the past years, but managed to do so only after the network managed to distribute more than 400,000 pictures and videos of children engaged in sexual activities.The charges brought agai... |
5 March 2008
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