As reported by Heraldnet.com the owner and executives of a Lynnwood networking-hardware reseller were indicted last week in U.S. District Court in Seattle, charged with conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Read Article
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According to dailymail.co.uk hackers aren’t just one type of person,’ says Cal Leeming, a former hacker responsible for a £750,000 theft who now works in computer security. ‘It could be one person at home, a 15-year-old kid maybe, but there are others who have jobs, too.’‘It’s an underground economy,’ says Kevin Haley, Norton’s director of [...]
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According to securitywatch.pcmag.com, While the global nature of cyber-crime means the criminals can be anywhere, we tend to think of Eastern Europe and Russia as the hotbed of criminal activity. Trend Micro believes criminals will increasingly shift their operations over to Africa in 2013. “Africa will become a new safe harbor for cybercriminals,” Raimund Genes, [...]
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According to belfasttelegraph.co.uk, thousands of British people have fallen victim to a multimillion-pound Indian call center and internet fraud. Investigators believe the number of Britons deceived by the scam, up to 60,000, makes it one of the biggest such crimes carried out in the UK from abroad, the Daily Mail reported. Read Article
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An organized group of twenty-four students involved in 8 million dollars online scam was detained by the Romanian organized crime agents. The three hundred and fifty victims were citizens of United States, Canada and Great Britain. Romanian authorities were helped by US Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigations. Read Article
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A young man from Alexandria was arrested April 9, 2012 by the organized crime agents for stealing money from over 400 citizens. The defendant offered loans with very good interest rates, as long as the loners paid him a beginning fee to cover traveling costs. He kept the money and never showed up to give [...]
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Catalin Buzea of Romanian nationality was arrested on March 5th, 2012 by Boston FBI agents for his involvement in a international organized crime network specialized in online auto sales. The defendant was providing a fake Pay Pall link and collected over $100,000 in the past month, money that was sent to Romania. Read Article
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The National Police arrested a record number of foreign nationals in an Asia-wide sting for a syndicate of defrauders who exploited the Internet to swindle their victims, various reports revealed on Friday. Read Article
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According to a report by the antivirus developer ESET, malware known as INF/Autorun, which contains information on programs meant to run automatically when removable media are accessed by a Windows PC user, remains one of the most dominant threats in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Read Article
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the dismantling of a “notorious and complex” network of virus-infected computers used to send billions of email messages daily hawking fake drugs. The Rustock “botnet” consisted of about a million computers that were infected with malicious code to let hackers covertly control the machines from afar using “command and control” servers. [...]
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