Thursday, November 29, 2018

Two Iranian Hackers charged with $6 Million in SamSam Ransomware Attacks

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Today the Department of Justice announced an indictment against two Iranian men: Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri fo...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Business Email Compromise: Putting a Wisconsin Case Under the Microscope

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Clement Onuama and Orefo Okeke were arrested on November 1, 2017 in the Western District of Texas after receiving a complaint and warrant f...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

Project Lakhta: Putin's Chef spends $35M on social media influence

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Project Lakhta is the name of a Russian project that was further documented by the Department of Justice last Friday in the form of sharing...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

FBI's Crime Data Explorer: What the Numbers Say about Cybercrime

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What do the numbers say about Cybercrime?  Not much.  No one is using them.   There is a popular quote often mis-attributed to the her...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Dangerous Invoices and Dangerous Infrastructure

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One of the things I've learned in twenty-nine years investigating malware is that MOST bad guys are lazy and cheap.  One of the main wa...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Interac: One Phish to Phish Them All

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I recently had the pleasure of bumping into some of my Canadian friends at a Law Enforcement conference.  So when I saw someone mention a ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

IRS Call Scammers Sentenced in Texas

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Back in 2016 we blogged about a major set of arrests in India and the United States related to a call center scam imitating the IRS.  (See...