ATM hacking and skimming were often in the news a few years back, but since the banks ramped up the security on ATM machines – including anti-skimming devices – ATM fraud activities seemed to drop off. Remember the Pro ATM Hacker ‘Chao’ Gives Out ATM Hacking Tips and a bunch of people getting busted not […]
Tags: atm fraud, atm security, atm skimming, bank fraud, bank security, banking-security, east, emv, emv atm card, emv card, european atm security team, fraud, scammers, scams, skimming
Posted in: Legal Issues, Privacy, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentToday’s news is that a company in the US has been using CAPTCHA breaking technology to run a very profitable ticket scalping operation. Reports state they netted a $25 Million USD profit over a 6 year period, which is an industry is extremely lucrative especially for a reasonably small operation. Of course they way in […]
You may remember a while back in 2008 it was uncovered (at least publically) that DarkMarket was actually an FBI Sting Operation. Insiders had apparently known since 2006 that one of the admins was actually an undercover FBI agent. Countless cases have gone to court with the evidence and contacts gathered in the DarkMarket forums. […]
We did mention Torpig in passing back in January 2008 when talking about the Mebroot rootkit which digs down deep into the Master Boot Record. It seems like Torpig has been pretty active since then and the latest break is that some security researchers have managed to infiltrate the botnet and collect some data on […]
Tags: anserin, botnet, botnets, data-theft, fraud, malware, mebroot, rootkit, sinowal, torpig, torpig botnet, trojans, worms
Posted in: Malware, Privacy, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentYou should be familiar with the TJX case by now (TJX Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History) and we’ve been following it here for a couple of years. We reported back in August last year that the TJX Credit Card Hackers were Busted and now one of the 11 guys involved has been […]
Tags: credit-card-fraud, data breach, fraud, hacking, maksik, money laundering, tjx hack, yastremskiy
Posted in: General Hacking, Legal Issues | Add a CommentI personally received the following direct message on Twitter from someone I know quite well: hey! check out this funny blog about you… http://jannawalitax.blogspot.com/ It’s a link to a fake blogspot URL that redirects to a phishing URL for Twitter, it looks the same as the real login page but the actual URL is: http://twitterblogs.access-logins.com/login […]
Tags: fraud, Phishing, twitter, twitter account stealing, twitter direct message, twitter fake login, twitter phishing
Posted in: Phishing, Web Hacking | Add a CommentAnother teen hacker in the news, this guy looks like he has some formidable skills though with the list of crimes he’s perpetrated. He’s pleaded guilty though, so he should get a reduced sentence and he’s still classified as a juvenile offender being only 17 – so that works in his favour too. A juvenile […]
Tags: 4chan, aush0k, computer felonies, cyber attacks, ddos, dos, dshocker, fraud, hackers, hacking, hoax calls, myg0t, telephone spoofing
Posted in: General Hacking, Legal Issues | Add a CommentAnother big heist in the US netting a whole lot of juicy information on credit and debit cards, over half a million USD lost in this case alone. There’s a whole lot of fraud going on.. Not bad for fiddling with the cash register system of a restaurant chain. It just shows, anyone dealing with […]
Ah I think it’s time for controversy on a Tuesday, what do you think about this case where a hacker got some info on a company about it’s soon to be plummeting share prices by breaking into their computer. By investing $41,000 in stock potion trading on the shares that were about to drop – […]
Tags: catch 22, dorozhko, fraud, hacking, IMS health, insider-trading, put options, shares, stock fraud, stock option trading, stocks, us, US law
Posted in: General News, Legal Issues, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentAh so Mr Alan Ralsky one of the biggest spammers of all-time is back in the news after his indictment with 10 others for running a large scale spam operation intended to inflate stocks artificially. At one time it was thought Mr Ralsky and his friends were responsible for the majority of the spam sent, […]
Tags: alan ralsky, email-spam, fraud, junk-mail, pump and dump, ralsky, spam, spam syndicate, spammers, spamming, stocks
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