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The FBI warns that cyber fraudsters are using computer malware to siphon millions of dollars from the bank accounts of US firms and send the money to sham companies in China.During the past year, the FBI has investigated twenty cases in which online banking credentials were stolen from small-to-medium size US compani... |
27 April 2011
02:23 GMT |
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A former Microsoft director of business development was charged with wire fraud after allegedly abusing his position to steal over $515,000 from the software giant.The man was arrested on Tuesday and had criminal charges filed against him in Seattle. Microsoft sued its former employee for damages back in January.Acco... |
13 April 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Two men were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud after they exploited a software glitch in video poker machines to increase their payouts artificially.John Kane, 52, of Las Vegas, is believed to have discovered the design flaw which through a combination of button allows players to change the be... |
7 January 2011
05:15 GMT |
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A man and a woman were found guilty earlier this week of instrumenting two advance-fee schemes which affected hundreds of people and netted them over $7 million.The verdict, returned by a federal jury in New York on Monday, found defendands Noemi Dodakian and Chong Shing Wu guilty of wire fraud.According to prosecuto... |
5 November 2010
10:54 GMT |
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An employee of Akamai, one of the world's largest Internet content delivery providers, was arrested and charged with wire fraud after he allegedly tried to sell confidential company data to a foreign government.Elliot Doxer, 42, of Brookline, MA, worked in Akamai's finance department where he had access to ... |
7 October 2010
02:08 GMT |
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A Venezuelan man, who stole over 10 millions of VoIP minutes from US companies and resold them, was sentenced to ten years in prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution.Edwin Andrew Pena, 27, was arrested back in 2006 under suspicion of conspiracy to commit computer hacking and wire fraud, but he fled t... |
25 September 2010
06:18 GMT |
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A Californian escrow firm that had $465,000 stolen from its bank account, with the help of a computer trojan, was forced to sign up for a loan to replace the missing funds. The cybercrooks responsible defeated several online banking security measures in order to steal the money.According to Krebs on Security, the sec... |
29 June 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Researchers from Atlanta-based security vendor SecureWorks have discovered a new information-stealing trojan facilitating ACH and wire fraud. The trojan has all the capabilities of malware commonly used to steal money from SMBs and non-profits.An unprecedented wave of Automated Clearing House (ACH) and wire fraud sta... |
11 February 2010
10:29 GMT |
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The Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley chapter of United Way of America fell victim to overseas cybercrooks, who attempted to siphon over $150,000 from the charity's bank account. Fortunately, the organization noticed the fraudulent transfers in time and was able to recover the money.This is just one of the ... |
5 February 2010
09:15 GMT |
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After Bullitt County's bank account was recently drained of $415,000, due to malware being installed on the treasurer's computer, more similar cases have been reported across the United States. A public school district from near Pittsburgh was left short of over $700,000, while an auto parts business in Gai... |
21 July 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Kentucky's Bullitt County fell victim to an elaborate scam that involved an online banking trojan and timed money transfers to Ukraine. As a result of the attack, which involved 25 innocent U.S. residents who were tricked, the county's bank account was left short of around $415,000. Washington Post's ... |
4 July 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Derrick Lee Swantz, 57, of Lakewood, Colorado, has been sentenced to 52 months in a federal prison and the payment of $252,349 in restitution after he was found guilty of one count of mail fraud and 27 counts of wire fraud. Between 2003 and 2005, he swindled money from eBay and Autotrader.com users by organizing auct... |
28 April 2009
07:12 GMT |
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