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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

Krebs on Security

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. A screenshot of a website reviewing PM2BTC.

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Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

Krebs on Security

In 2006, Stroganov and an associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a. “Our continuous monitoring of underground activity revealed despite the conviction, Flint24 never left the cybercrime scene,” reads an analysis penned by Intel 471. authorities in 2017.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. In 2017, U.S. In Kulkov’s case, it no doubt was critical to U.S.

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Who Wants to Support My Work Commercially?

Security Boulevard

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? Astalavista Security Newsletter - 2003-2006 - Full Offline Reading Copy.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information. Transactions on the dark web are typically conducted using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to maintain anonymity.

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Lawmakers Should Update The Anti-Money-Laundering Act Of 2020 To Account For Inflation

Joseph Steinberg

In any case, the law should be updated to reflect the prices of 2021, rather than those of 1970 or 2006. (I I am also not convinced that the AML Act sufficiently addresses money laundering via cryptocurrencies – but that is a topic for another time…).

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The new DOJ Law Enforcement Crypto Reports (TL;DR)

Security Boulevard

Despite the Executive Order, it is important to note that the Department of Justice did not need the urging of the White House to establish procedures for addressing Cryptocurrency. That original report characterized the illicit uses of cryptocurrency into three broad categories of criminality: . The Bitqyck case and the $2.4