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Tag Archives: wire fraud
Cardplanet mastermind pleads guilty to credit card fraud
Cardplanet offered refunds on invalid card data, along with a card checking service that ensured a stolen card was still valid.
IT exec sets up fake biz to scam his employer out of $6m
He cooked up an IT vendor, its invoices, its vapor-gear, and the phantom employees who never showed up to do all those services.
Fin7 sysadmin pleads guilty to running IT for billion-dollar crime syndicate
Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court.
Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted
The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.
More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders
The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is big news but will it be secure?
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know that earlier this week Facebook announced plans for a new global cryptocurrency for absolutely everyone called Libra.
Hacking gang stole millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swaps
Six alleged members of “The Community” were indicted, along with three phone service employees who allegedly helped target subscribers.
Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US
A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.
Two charged with hacking company filings out of SEC’s EDGAR system
They’re charged with phishing and inflicting malware to get into the EDGAR filing system, stealing thousands of filings, and selling access.