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From Cybercrime Saul Goodman to the Russian GRU

Krebs on Security

The forum’s member roster includes a Who’s Who of top Russian cybercriminals, and it featured sub-forums for a wide range of cybercrime specialities, including malware, spam, coding and identity theft. In almost any database leak, the first accounts listed are usually the administrators and early core members.

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Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers

Security Affairs

They also activated files that forced infected computers to register email accounts with AOL.” “The defendants registered more than 100,000 email accounts using this method. The defendants would then steal account credentials. . “The defendants used stolen email credentials to copy a victim’s email contacts.

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Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin sentenced to 12 years in prison

Security Affairs

The man was arrested in Georgia at the request of US authorities, he was charged with multiple conspiracy counts, including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and four counts of computer hacking. From 2007 to 2015 TYURIN also conducted cyberattacks against multiple foreign companies. “In addition to the U.S.

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Vulnerable children's identities used in tax fraud scheme

Malwarebytes

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has sentenced Ariel "Melo" Jimenez (38) to 12 years in prison for leading a "tax fraud and identity theft conspiracy" that resulted in the fraudulent claiming of tax credits, earning him millions of dollars. A lavish lifestyle. He admitted to spending a total of $5.5M

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2007, Guardtime is a network security company that specializes in deploying distributed, virtualized machines built to execute tasks with cryptographic proofs of correctness. Securing edge devices with identity authentication. Mitigating risk of false key propagation and identity theft. Block Armour.

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EU Council sanctions two Russian military intelligence officers over 2015 Bundestag hack

Security Affairs

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. continues the Der Spiegel.

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