The New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced tuesday the unsealing of a nine-count indictment charging VLADIMIR ZDOROVENIN and his son, KIRILL ZDOROVENIN, two Russian citizens, with conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud, aggravated identity theft, and securities fraud. According to the indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court, at [...]
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Russian father-son duo extradited to US for cyber fraud and hacking
Posted: 19th January 2012 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: cybercriminals, FBI, identity theft, KIRILL ZDOROVENIN, Russia, U.S., VLADIMIR ZDOROVENIN
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‘Scareware’ Distributors Targeted: 12 Nations Coordinate Anti-Cyber Crime Effort
Posted: 23rd June 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, Malware, NewsTags: Canada, Cyprus, department of justice, FakeAV, FBI, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Operation Trident Tribunal, Romania, scareware, Sweden, two arrests, UK, Ukraine, US
One of the most widespread types of cyber scam being perpetrated against consumers these days involves “scareware”—those pop-up messages you see on your computer saying you’ve got a virus and all you have to do to get rid of it is buy the antivirus software being advertised. And if you don’t buy it? The pop-ups [...]
LulzSec playing hide and seek with US intelligence
Posted: 9th June 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: FBI, hacktivist, Lulz Security, LulzSec, LulzSec website, lulzsecurity.com, lulzsecurity.org
Hacktivist group, LulzSec that recently claimed responsbility to hacks on Sony, Nintendo, Fox.com and even FBI, is playing hide and seek with federal agencies at the moment, who are trying to bring down its online presence as of now. The group’s website, Lulzsecurity.org has been brought down by the agencies who have placed the following [...]
Suspected hacker arrested in Greece
Posted: 9th June 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: FBI, Greece, Greek, Interpol, NASA, nsplitter, Pentagon
Authorities in Greece have arrested an 18-year old man Wednesday, suspected of hacking into computer systems belonging to Interpol, the Pentagon, the NSA and the FBI. The teenager, who has not been identified, is said to live with his mother in the Athens district of Agios Dimitrios, and is alleged to have originally broken into [...]
FBI affiliate Infragard Atlanta hacked by hacktivist group LulzSec
Posted: 4th June 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, NewsTags: email, FBI, Infragard Atlanta, Karim Hijazi, LET IT FLOW YOU STUPID FBI BATTLESHIPS, LulzSec, NATO - National Agency of Tiny Origamis LO
In a self-titled hack attack called “Fuck FBI Friday” the hacking group known as LulzSec published Friday, the details on users and associates of the non-profit organization Infragard. Infragard describes itself as a non-profit focused on being an interface between the private sector and individuals with the FBI. LulzSec published 180 usernames, hashed passwords, plain text [...]
Employee of central coast bank arrested for stealing nearly $110,000, mostly from elderly customers
Posted: 26th May 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Law & Order, NewsTags: Brenda Bautista Hurtado, FBI, hack
An Arroyo Grande woman was arrested Tuesday by special agents with the FBI on charges of stealing money from a federally insured financial institution. Brenda Bautista Hurtado, 25, was taken into custody without incident after being named in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury last Friday. The indictment accused Hurtado of stealing [...]
New FBI Documents Provide Details on US Government’s Surveillance Spyware
Posted: 1st May 2011 by infosecindia in Law & OrderTags: CALEA, CIPAV, EFF, FBI, FOIA, spyware, Surveillance
Electronic Frontiers Foundation, EFF recently received documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that reveal details about the depth of the agency’s electronic surveillance capabilities and call into question the FBI’s controversial effort to push US Congress to expand the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) for greater access to communications data. The documents received by EFF were sent [...]
Hackers made $11 million in unauthorized transfers to China, says FBI
Posted: 28th April 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, News, ScamTags: Backdoor.bot, China, Chinese, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Phishing, scammers, Spybot, US, ZeuS
In a first of its kind report, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. (FBI) has quantified the economic impact of Chinese hackers on U.S. businesses. According to a fraud alert from FBI, U.S. businesses have been taken for at least $11 million over the last year thanks to unauthorized wire transfers to China. Cybercriminals have been [...]
Hacker pleads guilty for stealing 675,000 credit card numbers
Posted: 22nd April 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, NewsTags: credit cards, FBI, hacker, Rogelio Hackett
A hacker that was found holding more than 675,000 stolen credit card numbers pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge in Alexandria, Virginia. The hacker, Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, of Lithonia, Ga., pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated identity theft. Hackett admitted that he sold credit card information, manufactured and sold [...]
U.S. Department of Justice takes down Coreflood botnet
Posted: 15th April 2011 by infosecindia in Law & Order, Malware, NewsTags: 2 million computers, botnet, Coreflood, Dell, department of justice, FBI, malware, microsoft
Following the infection of more than 2 million computers worldwide – most of which were based in the United States, The US Department of Justice in association with Microsoft has moved swiftly to file civil complaints, issued a restraining order and numerous criminal seizure warrants. The botnet is a network of hundreds of thousands of computers infected with a [...]