Saturday, November 20, 2010

Lin Mun Poo: Hacker of the Federal Reserve and ...?

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** UPDATE: Poo arraigned and in custody ** On October 21, 2010, Malaysian citizen Lin Mun Poo landed at the JFK airport in New York and and ...
Monday, November 08, 2010

WIRED: November Jargon Watch & Forensics?

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One of my NASA buddies (hi, Lisa!) dropped by last week for coffee and to catch up on the world of information management. When I introduce...
Friday, November 05, 2010

Minipost: NY Zeus "At Large" Codreanu and Adam captured

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We've previously posted about the FBI's Operation ACHing Mule (that's A-C-H as in Automated-Clearing-House, the way American ba...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

Sextortion Hacker: Victims sought by FBI

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On September 9, 2007, I received a forwarded email that had been sent to several high school parents in the Birmingham, Alabama area. It de...
Monday, November 01, 2010

USAA Phish: Avalanche uses many "redirectors"

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A hard-hitting phishing campaign is trying to steal login credentials from the customers of USAA bank. Reports from all over are indicating...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

With GlavMed gone, who is the King of Pharm Spam?

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Last week the anti-spam community was abuzz with the news that Igor Gusev, the CEO of DespMedia, and the man behind GlavMed and SpamItDotBiz...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Work From Home Scams: IC3 Advisory

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This past week the Internet Crime & Complaint Center (IC3.gov) in conjunction with the FBI, the US Secret Service, and the Financial Ser...
Monday, October 04, 2010

Is Russia Joining the Zeus Hunt?

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Although its too early to know if this is Zeus related, Department "K", the Interior Ministry's Computer Crimes unit in Russia...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

Sir Paul Speaks the Truth: Cyber Law Enforcement is a Good Investment

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In this morning's BBC News, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson is the focus of their story, Met police chief warns on interne...
Friday, October 01, 2010

The Big One: Zeus Operation Trident BreACH

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The FBI's Cyber Division has just concluded a press conference where they announced the culmination of Operation Trident BreACH . Final...

FBI's Operation ACHing Mule

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While visiting a Russian news site working on getting proper Cyrillic spellings for the Zeus criminals, I saw the first time the name of the...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

New York FBI: 17 Wanted Zeus Criminals

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The New York FBI needs your help. Today they announced indictments against thirty-seven cybercriminals involved with Zeus. Ten of these we...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

MiniPost: UK Zeus Criminals Identified

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Eleven of those arrested for committing financial cybercrimes using Zeus malware in the UK have now been formally charged and named, accordi...

Major Zeus Bust in the UK: Nineteen Zbot Thieves Arrested

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The Metropolitan Police are to be congratulated this morning on the largest Zeus arrest to date. News broke on September 28th that the Met...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

eBay Spear Phisher Liviu Mihail Concioiu Arrested in Romania

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IMPORTANT UPDATE Readers of my blog will know that I have several contacts that I discuss things with in Romania. I have had further conver...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

NPR CyberWar Part One: I Beg to Differ

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This morning on National Public Radio, we heard a story about "CyberWar" and some of the problems that the growing reality of Cybe...