Cybercrime

The man behind Cardplanet credit card market sentenced to 9 years in prison

A 30-year old Russian national was sentenced to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection credit card market.…

6 years ago

Developer of DDoS Mirai based botnets sentenced to prison

A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13…

6 years ago

Police arrested 32 people while investigating underground economy forum

German Police have arrested 32 individuals and detained 11 after a series of raids targeting users of an illegal underground…

6 years ago

CryptoCore hacker group stole over $200M from cryptocurrency exchanges

The CryptoCore hacker group that is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe has stolen around $200 million from…

6 years ago

Fxmsp: the untold story of infamous seller of access to corporate networks who made at least USD 1.5 mln

Group-IB published a detailed report on Fxmsp – a heavyweight of the Russian-speaking cyber underground who made a name for…

6 years ago

New Zealand freezes assets of Russian cyber criminal Alexander Vinnik

New Zealand police had frozen NZ$140 million (US$90 million) in assets linked to a Russian cyber criminal. New Zealand police…

6 years ago

U.S. authorities sanction six Nigerian nationals for BEC and Romance Fraud

US authorities this week announced sanctions against six Nigerian nationals for their involvement in business email compromise (BEC) and romance…

6 years ago

AWS mitigated largest DDoS attack ever of 2.3 Tbps

AWS announced it has mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever, which surpassed the previous record of 1.7…

6 years ago

Maze Ransomware gang breached the US chipmaker MaxLinear

U.S. system-on-chip maker MaxLinear disclosed a security incident, Maze ransomware operators infected some of its computing systems in May. U.S.…

6 years ago

Ransomware attack disrupts operations at Australian beverage company Lion

Systems at Australian beverages company Lion were infected with a ransomware that disrupted to manufacturing processes and customer service. Systems…

6 years ago

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