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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:16:45 +0000

A cyberattack that shut down some of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023: It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that made-for-Hollywood narrative has eclipsed a far more hideous trend: Many of these young, Western cybercriminals are also members of fast-growing online groups that exist solely to bully, stalk, harass and extort vulnerable teens into physically harming themselves and others.

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Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

January 19, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adavio, amazon.ca, duncan's first nation, rcmp, royal canadian mounted police, The Coming Storm, timothy barker, triangulation fraud, walmart, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:34:53 +0000

A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. His case appears to involve “triangulation fraud,” which occurs when a consumer purchases something online — from a seller on Amazon or eBay, for example — but the seller doesn’t actually own the item for sale. Instead, the seller purchases the item from an online retailer using stolen payment card data. In this scam, the unwitting buyer pays the scammer and receives what they ordered, and very often the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

November 13, 2019 0 Comments australian federal police, blackshades rat, john revesz, luminositylink, nanocore rat, Ne'er-Do-Well News, orcus rat, orcus technologies, rcmp, royal canadian mounted police, taylor huddleston

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:41:17 +0000

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.