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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

Krebs on Security

From 2009 to the present, Aqua’s primary role in the conspiracy was recruiting and managing a continuous supply of unwitting or complicit accomplices to help Evil Corp. ” Only, in every case the company mentioned as the “client” was in fact a small business whose payroll accounts they’d already hacked into.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” An ad for war.md, circa 2009. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md

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Experts found 20 Million tax records for Russian citizens exposed online

Security Affairs

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.”

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Is IdentityIQ a Scam?

Identity IQ

Is IdentityIQ a Scam? Is IdentityIQ a scam? Since 2009, IDIQ has offered the IdentityIQ product for industry-leading identity theft protection and credit report monitoring. This is beneficial because identity thieves can use your stolen information to open new accounts. IdentityIQ services are not a scam.

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Spain extradites 94 Taiwanese to China phone and online fraud charges

Security Affairs

” The investigation on the scam operations in Spain started in 2016, crooks targeted victims in China. In the fraud scheme, the criminals impersonate Chinese authorities and attempt to trick victims into transferring money to accounts controlled by the scammers. SecurityAffairs – phone scam, online fraud).

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Billions of FBS Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak

Security Affairs

Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries. A German User’s Account. An Australian User’s Account. Scams, Phishing and Malware. Account Takeover. The breach is a danger to both FBS and its customers. Who is FBS.

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