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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EPIC Sues Department of Homeland Security
Posted: 2nd January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Privacy, Law & OrderTags: DHS, EPIC, Privacy, U.S.
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a Freedom of information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to force disclosure of the details of the agency’s social network monitoring program. Earlier in some news reports and a Federal Register notice, the DHS had stated that it will routinely monitor the public postings of users on [...]
Hosting Providers Infested With Malware, Botnets: Report
Posted: 13th July 2011 by infosecindia in Malware, NewsTags: Amazon, AS33182 HostDime, botnet, C&C servers, China, exploit servers, Germany, HostExploit, hosting providers, malware, Phishing, Spam, U.S., ZeuS
A new report from HostExploit, an independent group that monitors the level of relative malicious activity on hosting providers around the world, shows that HostDime, a provider based in Orlando, Fla., had the highest relative levels of malware and phishing and other malicious activity in the second quarter of 2011. The servers hosted by the company [...]
India Home for Phishing Emails: X-Force 2010 report
Posted: 25th May 2011 by infosecindia in News, SpamTags: Brazil, IBM, India, Phishing, Russia, Spam, spear phishing, U.S., Vietnam, vulnerabilities, X-Force 2010 report
IBM has released results from its annual X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report, highlighting that public and private organizations around the world faced increasingly sophisticated, customized IT security threats in 2010. According to the report India was the top country for phishing email origination in 2010 at 15.5 percent, followed by Russia at 10.4 percent. [...]