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Sanford "Spamford" Wallace, a notorious spammer who promoted himself as a spam king in the '90s, has been charged with fraud for a phishing attack he allegedly launched on Facebook in 2008.Wallace has already lost a civil lawsuit brought by Facebook for his spamming activity in which the company was awarded $711... |
5 August 2011
13:48 GMT |
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A 24-year-old programmer and online activist was indicted for stealing over four million academic papers and journals from a not-for-profit archive service.Aaron Swartz, a respected researcher with Harvard University's Center for Ethics and founder of the Demand Progress political action group, is accused of bre... |
20 July 2011
09:09 GMT |
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Thirty people were indicted in Romania last week in connection with an international VoIP fraud scheme that involved routing calls to premium numbers through hacked PBX systems.The criminal operation lasted from October 2009 to December 2010 and, according to prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for Investigatin... |
18 June 2011
02:22 GMT |
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A fake news story claiming F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen and investigative security journalist Brian Krebs were indicted on credit card fraud charges made its way online yesterday.The story was published on fraud-news.com and then made its way to Twitter. "I called Brian up. He had already seen the a... |
13 June 2011
11:56 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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US authorities have closed down three of the most popular online poker websites in the world and indicted their founders on charges of wire fraud and money laundering.The domain names of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, were seized by FBI and the Department of Justice on Friday leaving millions of pok... |
18 April 2011
00:57 GMT |
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A Texas man was charged for instrumenting a pump-and-dump stock fraud scheme that used botnets to promote the penny stock of several companies.Christopher Rad, 42, of Cedar Park, Texas, was arrested by the FBI this Monday after being indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.According to the auth... |
23 March 2011
11:58 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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Ten people were indicted for their roles in running an advance-fee fraud operation that involved sending traditional 419 scam emails to people.Advance-fee fraud is a common type of scam where the attacker promises a big reward, but asks the victim to send a sum of money in advance to help secure it.This concept has e... |
8 March 2011
04:55 GMT |
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A new York Broker has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud for his alleged role in a multimillion-dollar pump-and-dump stock scheme ran by the notorious spammer Alan Ralsky.According to Detroit prosecutors, Gregg M. Berger helped sell over 30 million shares for thinly traded Chinese and Israeli stocks after t... |
3 February 2011
11:53 GMT |
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A Malaysian national arrested last month by US authorities was charged with hacking into the computer network of the Federal Reserve Bank and stealing financial data.Lin Mun Poo, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, was arrested as he entered the country through the John F. Kennedy International Airport on October 21,... |
19 November 2010
08:55 GMT |
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Five individuals who played money mule roles in an operation involving the theft of $450,000 from a bank account belonging to the City of Carson, CA, have been indicted. A computer trojan was used to infect the laptop of the city treasurer in order to steal the information necessary to carry out this attack.Automated... |
1 June 2010
11:36 GMT |
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Three individuals were charged on November 19 for their role in an attack, which involved hijacking the comcast.net domain name and redirecting its traffic to a rogue website. According to the indictment, the defendants used social engineering in order to obtain information that facilitated their plans to alter the d... |
21 November 2009
05:49 GMT |
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The gang of fraudsters who stole $9 million after hacking into the RBS WorldPay payment processor last year have been indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta, the United States Department of Justice announces. Four hackers and six cashers were charged with various counts of wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated ident... |
11 November 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Two former employees of an engine parts distributor have been indicted for accessing the company's computer systems repeatedly without authorization after they quit. According to the prosecutors, the men used still active credentials to access sensitive information for almost two years.Scott R. Burgess, 45 of Ja... |
6 November 2009
10:39 GMT |
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Khalid Shaikh, co-founder and former CEO of YouSendIt, was indicted last week for allegedly attacking the company's servers repeatedly. The prosecutors claim that he used an Apache benchmarking program to launch the denial of service (DoS) attacks.YouSendIt is a popular digital content delivery service based in ... |
2 November 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Items found in a suitcase lost at an airport helped authorities uncover a credit-card fraud operation and identify the people responsible for instrumenting it. The owner of the misplaced luggage made the mistake of calling back and asking about it. According to The Sacramento Bee, U.S. Attorney Lawrence Brown and Sa... |
24 October 2009
04:59 GMT |
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A 26-year-old Venezuelan man was extradited to U.S. last week in order to stand trial for instrumenting a complex scheme that used hacked networks to freely route VoIP traffic. The alleged hacker fled the country back in August 2006, after being indicted in New Jersey.Edwin Pena used to be a resident of Miami and ope... |
20 October 2009
05:47 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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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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A computer specialist has been arrested and indicted for breaking into his former employer's computer network one year after he was let go. The admin is accused of causing significant damage by deleting records and crippling critical communication systems such as email and telephone. Luis Robert Altamarino work... |
8 August 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Three people were indicted in New Jersey and five were arrested in Italy for participating in an international telecommunications fraud scheme that involved hacked PBX boxes. The Italian authorities noted that part of the illegal gains were being used to finance fundamentalist Islamic groups. According to the indict... |
15 June 2009
08:42 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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A Grand Jury from the Eastern District of New York has indicted Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, reports Threat Level. He is being accused of conspiring to commit and committing access device fraud and faces a maximum of 30 years in prison. Tenenbaum was arrested last month in Canada, where he is currently being detain... |
31 October 2008
07:10 GMT |
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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
09:30 GMT |
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