Nigerian Man Charged With Cyber Fraud Against US Companies
A Nigerian national appeared in federal court in Chicago Friday accused of orchestrating an international cyber fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say defrauded U.S....
Fraud & Identity Theft
Russian Pleads Guilty for Role in Cybercrime Organization
A Russian national pleaded guilty last week for his role in an international cyber theft ring that caused losses of more than $568 million....
Magecart Hackers Target U.S. Cities Using Click2Gov
Magecart web skimmers were found on the websites of eight cities in the United States and one thing they have in common is that...
Police Raids Target Users of Illegal Online Forum in Germany
Police in Germany have arrested 32 people and detained 11 after nationwide raids targeting users of an illegal online platform, prosecutors in Frankfurt and...
COVID-19 Fuels Phishing and Scams While BEC Attacks Evolve and Increase
Between the second and third weeks of March 2020, email scams and phishing attacks spiked by an unprecedented 436%. Such was the effect of...
N.Zealand Freezes Assets of Alleged Russian Cyber Criminal
New Zealand police revealed Monday they had frozen NZ$140 million (US$90 million) in assets linked to a Russian man accused of laundering money for...
U.S. Sanctions Six Nigerians for BEC and Romance Fraud
The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Justice this week announced sanctions against six...
Man Accused of Hacking University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Gets Arrested
The alleged hacker who breached the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2014 was arrested this week in Detroit, the...
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Twitter Removes 30,000 State-Linked Manipulation Accounts
Twitter on Friday announced that it took down more than 30,000 accounts pertaining to three networks associated with China, Turkey, and Russia state-linked manipulation...
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FBI Expects Increased Targeting of Mobile Banking Applications
The increase in mobile banking application usage is expected to lead to a rise in exploitation too, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warns. Over...