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Unread messages, blocked online banking accounts, security alerts, and verifications are all pretexts used by cybercriminals to launch phishing campaigns that target the customers of ING and ABN Amro from Belgium and Netherlands.
Experts from MX Lab report that compared to other periods, on April 10, the number of t... |
11 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The bank account of the city of Arlington, Texas, was targeted at the end of February by a hacker who attempted to steal $1.8 million (1.35 million EUR).
According to Star Telegram, the money was recovered because the internal audit controls used by the financial institution flagged the transfers as being fraudulent... |
3 April 2012
08:48 GMT |
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It’s clear that the piece of malware known as Ice IX is very effective when it comes to aiding cyber fraudsters collect banking details. The latest configuration uses web injection to make it appear as the information is handed over to Facebook and not some cybercrook.
Experts from Trusteer identified the new ... |
3 April 2012
07:37 GMT |
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A woman from Hamilton, UK, received an email, allegedly from Butterfield Bank, asking her to update her online banking information. After she completed the process, she found that $4,000 (€3,000) were transferred from her account to one from a bank in South Africa.
Oddly, the wire transfer report revealed that ... |
3 April 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Authorities from New Zealand made public the photo of a man, captured on CCTV, which they believe is connected to the criminal collective that’s been fitting credit card skimming devices on ATMs.
According to NZ Herald, police hope that someone may recognize the man and offer them a clue regarding his identity... |
30 March 2012
07:26 GMT |
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A 44-year old resident of Jersey City admitted to his role in a bank fraud scheme as a result of which a number of four financial institutions are counting losses that total around $1 million (€ 700,000).
For his involvement in the scheme, Syed Rehman faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine ... |
12 November 2011
05:28 GMT |
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A UK cybercriminal gang of 13 people, part of an international online bank heist scheme, have met the end of the road after stealing close to £3 million ($4.6 million or €3.5 million) from the accounts of companies and individuals.
The UK Metropolitan Police released a press statement revealing that the... |
5 October 2011
03:02 GMT |
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ATM skimmers were printed with high-tech 3D devices by a group of fraudsters who managed to steal more that $400,000 (€ 280,000) from unsuspecting bank customers.
Like every other major improvement in technology, 3D printers are put to good use among thieves, this time in the attempt to replicate credit card ... |
20 September 2011
07:28 GMT |
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A Newcastle man received a 15-month jail sentence after he admitted stealing money from bank accounts whose passwords he guessed using information shared on Facebook.According to The Telegraph, Iain Wood, 33, spent up to 18 hours per day online trying to figure out passwords to other people's accounts.Wood targe... |
16 August 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Four individuals have been indicted in New York for running a credit card skimming operation that netted them more than $1.5 million during the past year.Mihail Draghici, Ionel Dedulescu, Didi Theodor Ciulei and Laurentiu Mugurel Manta were indicted Monday in Manhattan on multiple counts of conspiracy to commit bank ... |
7 June 2011
12:55 GMT |
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A gang of nine fraudsters who installed skimming devices at ATMs in several Canadian cities were arrested and charged with multiple counts of fraud and theft of credit card data.According to authorities, since September 2010 the gang has hit over 300 ATMs, or ABMs (Automatic Banking machines) as they are known in Can... |
22 April 2011
14:27 GMT |
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Three men were arrested in UK under suspicion of participating in a cyber fraud operation that involved using a custom SpyEye trojan to compromise online banking accounts.SpyEye is a relatively popular crimeware toolkit that has been slowly eating away at the market share of the more notorious ZeuS.Following a series... |
13 April 2011
12:53 GMT |
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A French hacker who boasted on TV about hacking into the network of an important defense contractor was arrested and charged with unauthorized access to a computer system, data theft and organized fraud.The hacker appeared on the France 2 television programme "Complément d'enquête" (Further investig... |
12 April 2011
09:56 GMT |
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Australian authorities have operated two more arrests connected to the investigation of a $100 million bank fraud plot that saw the involvement of bank insiders.A 37-year-old suspect from Casula was arrested on charges of money laundering, participating in a criminal group, dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage... |
24 March 2011
12:53 GMT |
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Twelve individuals have been indicted for their roles as members of a criminal network that used insider information to defraud banks with over $10 million.Seven of the suspects were arrested in Minnesota earlier this week, while the rest had previously been taken into custody in California.Some of the people named a... |
10 March 2011
09:58 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 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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When delivering the judgement in a civil case against an alleged bank fraudster who stole more than $1.1 million from Westpac customers, a NSW Supreme Court judge concluded that he was likely assisted by one of the bank's employees.Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's biggest banks, filed a lawsu... |
27 December 2010
12:52 GMT |
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The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has dismantled a fraud ring whose members managed to infect all ATMs in the city of Yakutsk with malware designed to steal credit card data.Yakutsk is the capital of the Russian Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, the largest federal subject of the Russian Federation, by area. The... |
1 December 2010
13:30 GMT |
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Agents from FBI's Boston Field Office have captured Nikolai Garafulin, one of the fugitives in the ZeuS-related cyberfraud cases announced by authorities in New York late last month.On September 30, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney charged 37 defendants for their involvement in an international cyberfraud operation c... |
11 October 2010
06:12 GMT |
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A New York man accused of leading a multi-national identity theft and fraud operation, which involved stealing money from home equity lines of credit (HELOC) accounts, was sentenced to 69 months in prison.The DOJ announced [pdf] that Hakeem Olokodana, 43, of Queens, New York, was sentenced in the U.S. District C... |
11 October 2010
04:19 GMT |
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According to the UK Cards Association, plastic card, online banking and check fraud losses have decreased considerably during the first half of 2010 compared to the similar period last year.Losses resulted from fraud involving UK cards amounted to £186.8 million (around $296 million) from January to June this y... |
7 October 2010
04:36 GMT |
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According to Ukrainian authorities around twenty people from different regions of the country are suspected of being involved in an international bank fraud operation related to the ZeuS trojan.The group of suspects includes the five key players arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) last week in the city ... |
6 October 2010
03:14 GMT |
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Last week cyber criminals managed to steal almost $600,000 from the bank accounts of Brigantine City, New Jersey, via fraudulent wire transfers.Brian Krebs reports that the attack occurred after-hours on September 28th, when multiple transfers were initiated from the city's accounts with TD Bank.Fortunately, the... |
4 October 2010
05:15 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have infiltrated the command and control structure of a SpyEye-based botnet, which specifically targets users located in Poland.SpyEye is an information stealing trojan that has a similar feature set to the ZeuS crimeware, the financial fraudsters' weapon of choice.In fact, ... |
8 September 2010
10:20 GMT |
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An Australian hacker who was previously arrested for creating and using an information stealing trojan to capture bank account details pleaded guilty. The Adelaide-based malware writer is scheduled for sentencing in September.Anthony Scott Harrison, 20, from Black Forest, a suburb of Adelaide, the capital city of Sou... |
26 July 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Ukraine's national security agency had detected a rise in bank-related cyber in the country. Apparently many of the attacks rely on insiders, as banks are advised to review and strengthen their employee selection processes.Kyiv Post reports that the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has sent a letter informing loca... |
7 July 2010
04:04 GMT |
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Cybercrooks managed to transfer over three million dollars out of the bank accounts of the Duanesburg Central School District over the course of three days in December. The bank managed to recover $2,5 million of the stolen funds, but $500,000 are still missing.Duanesburg is a town in Schenectady County, New York, wi... |
7 January 2010
11:48 GMT |
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The New Scotland Yard announces that a male and a female suspected of using the Zbot trojan to perform bank fraud were arrested in Manchester earlier this month. The two are the first individuals known to be arrested in Europe for distributing the notorious computer trojan.The bust was coordinated by officers from th... |
19 November 2009
08:27 GMT |
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Victor Vasile Constantin, 23, of Romania, has pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one of identity theft in Connecticut U.S. District Court. The fraudster installed special devices on automated teller machines (ATMs) in order to capture credit card data.Mr. Constantin was arrested by the Norwalk Police back ... |
18 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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The FBI announced that 33 individuals were arrested in connection with an international phishing gang that operated out of U.S. and Egypt. The indictment recently unsealed in a Los Angeles federal court charges a total of 53 people, while the Egyptian authorities have identified an additional 47 suspects.The indictme... |
8 October 2009
04:53 GMT |
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A Waldorf, Maryland man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud after being accused of leading a complex, identity-theft operation that involved pickpocketing, bribes and fake checks. The authorities claim the scheme resulted in over $2.1 million being lost to fraud. Clyde Austin Gray, Jr., 52, also known ... |
27 July 2009
04:30 GMT |
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The New York County District Attorney's Office announced that an identity theft gang had been indicted for operating a check scam that targeted numerous commercial banks in Manhattan. The operation relied on bank insiders to provide full customer information for counterfeiting checks. "The investigation leading... |
1 June 2009
03:52 GMT |
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