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Cardplanet mastermind pleads guilty to credit card fraud

January 27, 2020 0 Comments card fraud, cardplanet, computer intrusion, identity theft, israel, Law & order, Money Laundering, russia, security threats, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:31:00 +0000

Cardplanet offered refunds on invalid card data, along with a card checking service that ensured a stolen card was still valid.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/u1COzi9wu6w” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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IT exec sets up fake biz to scam his employer out of $6m

January 7, 2020 0 Comments fraud, hicham kabbaj, interactive systems, Law & order, metadata, Microsoft Word, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:45:41 +0000

He cooked up an IT vendor, its invoices, its vapor-gear, and the phantom employees who never showed up to do all those services.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/hCFk4KMyf3E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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International students in UK targeted by visa scammers

September 18, 2019 0 Comments china, chinese students, home office, hong kong, money mule, Scam, scams, uk, ukvi, universities, university, visa, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:49:40 +0000

Visa scammers are at it again, this time targeting Chinese international students in the UK. Learn how these scams work in order to steer clear, and advise others to do the same.

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Fin7 sysadmin pleads guilty to running IT for billion-dollar crime syndicate

September 13, 2019 0 Comments admin, breach, Carbanak Group, Combi Security, data loss, Fedir Hladyr, Fin7, hipchat, Joker Stash, Law & order, malware, Navigator Group, pen testing, penetration testing, phishing, POS systems, Social engineering, sysadmin, systems administrator, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:17:07 +0000

Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DC2ee9v8THo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

September 2, 2019 0 Comments capital one, CFAA, Cloud Computing, cryptojacking, data breach, data loss, erratic, federal grand jury, Hacker, Hacking, indictment, Law & order, misconfigured servers, Paige Thompson, software engineer, vulnerability, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:39:21 +0000

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/au_7MSrus80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders

August 8, 2019 0 Comments AT&T, bug bounties, CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, hackerone, insider threats, Law & order, malware, Mobile, Muhammad Fahd, phone unlocking, unlocked phones, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:28:54 +0000

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5KmgBCGFT2U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>