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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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Two Romanian nationals indicted in January 2007 on charges of conspiracy to commit access device and bank fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft were extradited to the US to stand trial. Both of them face maximum prison sentences of 37 years and $1.5 million fines, but have pleaded not guilty.Petru Bogdan Belbit... |
30 September 2009
06:07 GMT |
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The New York County District Attorney's Office announced that five Eastern Europeans were indicted for dealing in stolen credit cards and other crimes that resulted in $4 million being lost to fraud. International authorities arrested three of them in 2008 and were recently extradited to US.Viatcheslav Vasilyev,... |
3 September 2009
09:52 GMT |
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Eight individuals have been indicted in the Brooklyn federal court for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. The prosecutors claim that they illegally obtained wireless equipment amounting to $22 million by using stolen AT&T and T-Mobile customer information.The complex scheme began in February 2005 and las... |
24 August 2009
04:37 GMT |
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The man that illicitly used the LimeWire P2P client to hack into personal computers and steal financial or personal information was convicted to three years behind bars in the state of Washington, USA. Frederick Eugene Wood, a Seattle native, used his LimeWire client to acquire enough data so he could impersonate up ... |
13 August 2009
10:48 GMT |
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DLP Lamp Source, a distributor of replacement DLP and LCD lamps, is in the process of notifying its customers of a data-breach incident, which exposed their personal information and credit-card details. The company notes that the administration portion of its website was compromised by unknown attackers. We have bec... |
31 July 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Yury Namestnikov, antivirus analyst at Kaspersky Lab, explains why botnets are so common and how they are used to generate illegal income. Their fairly low maintenance costs and ease of use, combined with the high profits they can bring, make them the perfect cybercriminal tool. Botnets are armies of computers infec... |
27 July 2009
09:24 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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Spam analysts from AV vendor BitDefender warn of a new phishing campaign targeting Bank of America costumers. The spam e-mails bear the branding elements of the company and instruct potential victims to visit a link and complete a fake customer form with their credit card information. The phishing e-mails' "Fro... |
14 July 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University have studied the predictability of Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and have discovered that they can be determined fairly easily from publicly available data. The researchers urge companies in the private sector to stop using SSNs for identity verification, something the... |
7 July 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Phishers have launched an e-mail campaign that attempts to trick UK taxpayers into handing out their financial and personal details. The emails are spoofed to appear as being sent by the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and display legit contact details to increase their credibility. "After the annual calculation of your... |
6 July 2009
06:56 GMT |
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FBHive, a new blog that promises to deliver up-to-date news and information about all things Facebook, dropped a social networking bomb yesterday, by announcing a simple hack that allowed virtually anyone to view a Facebook user's basic profile information. The disclosure finally sent the network's security... |
23 June 2009
04:48 GMT |
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Batteries.com, a supplier of batteries and accessories for electronic consumer products, has announced a data breach incident after unknown individuals obtained unauthorized access to the server used to host its online store. Customer names, addresses and credit card details were stolen and some of the information ha... |
3 June 2009
08:12 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos have reported three different phishing campaigns targeting the customers of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in only one week. The attacks employ different social engineering tricks to convince people to reveal their banking and personal details. The first phishing... |
2 June 2009
08:08 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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A Minneapolis federal judge has sentenced Sergiu Daniel Popa, 23, from Shelby Township, Michigan, to eight and a half years in jail for running a phishing scheme, which lasted almost seven years and totaled $700,000 in losses.Popa emigrated to U.S. from Romania and started his illegal online activities in June 2000, ... |
29 May 2009
09:03 GMT |
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A California judge has banned LifeLock, a company offering identity theft protection services, from placing fraud alerts on its customers' credit profiles. The ruling comes after Experian, one of the three credit reporting bureaus in the U.S., has sued LifeLock, claiming that this practice was violating the Fair... |
28 May 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Workers from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) went trash-hunting at IRS offices from several cities in order to perform an audit of the agency's waste-disposal processes. They conclude in their report (PDF) that the Internal Revenue Service fails to properly protect taxpayer informat... |
27 May 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Security researchers from German antivirus vendor Avira have recently analyzed the origin of the URLs used in worldwide phishing and malware distribution campaigns. The results revealed that around 15% of malicious URLs were hosted in Germany. German citizens are, obviously, one of the preferred targets of identity ... |
26 May 2009
06:56 GMT |
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A survey commissioned by Infosecurity Europe has revealed that 37 percent of the questioned employees would consider handing over business records to third-parties for the right incentive. This comes to strengthen the claim that insider threats are on the rise, which has also been amongst the conclusions outlined in ... |
30 April 2009
04:27 GMT |
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A recent survey on how companies deal with social networking, performed by IT security vendor Sophos, has concluded that over 60 percent of them worry that personal info shared on such services by their employees could put their infrastructure at risk. However, productivity concerns remain the main reason for control... |
29 April 2009
04:25 GMT |
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Five suspects have been detained by the Romanian authorities for hacking into the networks of several U.S. pharmaceutical companies and intercepting credit card transaction data. The total damages amount to 800,000 USD. Police officers from the Directorate for Fighting Electronic Crime have collaborated with prosecu... |
14 April 2009
04:24 GMT |
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UK's new division of cybercops, the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU), has marked its first successful operation by arresting a gang of nine London-based Eastern Europeans, who compromised computers at various financial institutions and siphoned money from their customers' accounts. On Wednesday, the poli... |
10 April 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Van T. Dinh, from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with two counts of computer fraud after he hacked into an administrative account of a currency-exchange service and transferred money into another one, set up with the same company. The hacker had previously spent 13 months in prison for a stock-m... |
1 April 2009
08:22 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of a new malware-distribution scheme that involves fake notifications sent via SMS. The messages inform users that their banking details have been exposed and are available on a website that actually serves exploits. According to the Sophos alert, the incident was reported to th... |
30 March 2009
05:16 GMT |
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Two men have received significantly different sentences for their involvement in a four-year-long phishing operation that targeted AOL customers. Charlie Blount Jr. will spend the next four years behind bars, while Thomas Taylor Jr. will pass the same time on probation. Between 2000 and 2006, a gang of cybercrooks p... |
27 March 2009
07:19 GMT |
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An Australian working in the IT industry has stumbled upon a cached website containing the complete details of around 22,000 credit cards. Most of them belong to US and UK citizens and are issued by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Solo, Switch, Delta and Maestro/Cirrus. According to ITnews Australia, the man has... |
24 March 2009
07:34 GMT |
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John Kenneth Schiefer, 27, from Los Angeles, has been sentenced by a federal court to four years in prison and the payment of $22,500 in damages and fines for infecting some one quarter million computers with information-stealing malware. The hacker has been working for the past several months as a technician for Mah... |
6 March 2009
06:23 GMT |
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The largest flashmob heist ever recorded took place on November 8th, when dozens of so-called cashers from all around the globe took to their local ATMs and withdrew over $9 million from payroll cards owned by a company called RBS WorldPay, whose computer system was cracked by a very skilled hacker. The crime was orc... |
7 February 2009
06:45 GMT |
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On January 28, Microsoft joined governmental organizations and companies in the private sector to raise awareness of privacy and data protection issues. In 2007, the Council of Europe and the European Commission selected January 28 as the Data Privacy Day, and the Redmond company was quick to jump aboard, an indicati... |
28 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) makes the subject of a recent phishing campaign, the security researchers from IT security vendor Websense warn. This attack tries to capitalize on the upcoming deadline for submitting tax return applications online. The Canada Revenue Agency is the Canadian version of the U.S. IRS, an... |
22 January 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processing provider based in Princeton, N.J., has disclosed that the security of its network has been compromised by unknown attackers. During a recent audit malicious applications intercepting and stealing transaction data have been found installed on the company's systems. ... |
21 January 2009
03:53 GMT |
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The Ukrainian hacker that participated in what many consider to be the biggest identity theft scam of all times has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, in Turkey. Despite causing losses of millions of dollars worldwide, he went to trial and was arrested for hacking several Turkish banks. Maksym Yastremskiy, aka &ld... |
9 January 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Security researchers and computer experts were baffled to hear that a respectful UK-based computer magazine was advising its readers to smash their old hard drives with a hammer under the pretext of protecting sensitive data. The magazine is careful enough to mention taking the HDDs out of the computer first, but fai... |
8 January 2009
11:01 GMT |
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RBS WorldPay, a popular payment processing service, has announced that an unknown and unauthorized party has illegally obtained access to its computer systems. The personal information of 1.5 million customers, as well as the Social Security numbers of 1.1 million, may have been compromised, according to the company.... |
28 December 2008
06:34 GMT |
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Cyber-crooks don't need to worry about the language barrier anymore while scheming to defraud individuals or financial institutions. A new underground service offers social engineering services to scammers in multiple languages, Dancho Danchev, an independent security consultant, warns. As the security reasearch... |
16 December 2008
09:55 GMT |
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Journalists from the Frankfurter Rundschau (German) magazine had a shock when they examined the contents of a strange cardboard box sent to their office. It contained credit card bills and detailed banking information, including PIN numbers, that were stored on microfilm. The extensive data that should have been con... |
15 December 2008
09:40 GMT |
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According to security breach notices received by the Office of the Attorney General in Maryland, recent incidents at both Symantec and HP compromised the personal information of a number of employees. This was the result of two laptops containing sensitive, though unencrypted data, being stolen. HP announced (PDF fi... |
12 December 2008
10:29 GMT |
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A German magazine has led a journalistic investigation that has uncovered a data leak of an astonishing 21 million banking details. The information is up for sale on the black market for no less than €11.5 million (almost $15 million). Reporters from the WirtschaftsWoche magazine received a tip about the bankin... |
9 December 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Panic struck many members of the whites-only right wing British National Party (BNP) when they found out that their personal details had been leaked out on the Internet. The membership list of the BNP, which is now posted online on multiple websites as well as p2p networks, contains personal information such as names... |
19 November 2008
08:55 GMT |
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A survey conducted in the UK preceding the Get Safe Online Week revealed that one in five UK Internet users fell victims to online scams, while one third of them were affected by computer viruses in the past year. According to the experts at the GetSafeOnline project, the compromised identity of a UK citizen, wh... |
18 November 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Bob Harrison has been running, for many years now, the bobbear.co.uk website, aimed at informing users about online fraud and identity theft schemes. A few days back, Harrison was unpleasantly surprised to find his website inoperable, due to a massive denial of service attack. Upon further investigations, he discover... |
18 November 2008
05:39 GMT |
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The IT personnel from UF's College of Dentistry discovered, during maintenance, that one of their servers had been remotely compromised. The staff found unauthorized software installed on the server that also contained personal information of more than 330,000 former and current patients.The personal records inc... |
17 November 2008
10:08 GMT |
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A former computer network administrator from San Jose, California, will receive a prison sentence between 6 and 12 years after pleading guilty to multiple counts of second degree burglary, computer hacking, identity theft, and possession and intention to sell illicit methamphetamines.Andrew Madrid, 34, used to work a... |
14 November 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Express Scripts, a leading pharmacy benefit management company in the U.S. and Canada, announced that the extortionist(s) who sent them a threat letter in October moved down the foodchain and are now targeting their smaller business partners through similar tactics. As a result, the company decided to fight back and ... |
13 November 2008
09:23 GMT |
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Express Scripts, number 135 in 2008's Fortune 500, has announced that, in October, it received a letter through which unknown persons were trying to extort money from the company by threatening to disclose a major security breach. According to the letter, the hackers got their hands on the personal details of mi... |
7 November 2008
09:17 GMT |
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The Bank of Ireland (BOI) has launched an internal investigation after finding out that a USB stick containing account details was lost. The bank informed the affected customers and placed the accounts under supervision for suspicious activity.According to the bank, a single employee was responsible for the incident ... |
6 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Stephen Watt, 25, from New York, has been indicted in the United States District Court of Massachusetts for conspiring with and assisting Albert Gonzalez, the leader of the gang of hackers responsible for the biggest identity theft incident ever to be prosecuted in the U.S. Watt is accused of providing Gonzales with ... |
4 November 2008
09:39 GMT |
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The British Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that it came into possession of a USB stick containing the source code of the government's Gateway system as well as personal details of some of the service's registered members. The USB stick was lost outside a pub in Cannock, Staffordshire, by an employee of At... |
3 November 2008
08:29 GMT |
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