Australian Man Sentenced for Selling Ecstasy on the Darkweb
An Australian man was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to distributing MDMA on the darkweb.Paul Rodgerson, 42, of Melbourne, Victoria, was sentenced in Victoria’s County Court for his...
New Yorker Arrested For Major Credit Card Fraud & Hacking Spree
Boston prosecutors have charged New Yorker Vitaliy Antonenko with a series of cybercrimes, credit card trafficking and money laundering using the cryptocurrency bitcoin.
Antonenko was arrested and detained in March 2019 on...
How to protect against ATM Skimmers and protect your credit cards
Cyber fraudsters use various methods of stealing payment card data during a transaction. This article discusses the most typical ways, as well as protective measures, so that you are not...
Fake SpaceX Youtube Channels Defraud 150,000 in Bitcoin
Journalists at Bleeping Computer warned that the scammers recently seized three YouTube channels, gave them new names associated with SpaceX, and then launched fake “broadcasts” with Elon Mask, during which they...
FBI Arrests Another Fin7 Member Tied to Billions of Dollars in Losses
The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015,...
Largest Ad fraud targeting smart TVs
White Ops specialists found , they said, the world's largest fraudulent advertising operation using smart TVs.
During the operation, called ICEBUCKET, using software bots, cybercriminals make advertisers think that real people are...
Google Analytics Used By Cybercriminals to Steal Credit Card Data
Attackers inject malicious code that collects payment data onto a hacked site.
Cybercriminals use Google Analytics to steal credit card information from compromised e-commerce sites. According to experts from Kaspersky Lab,...
Alleged $366M Bitcoin mixer busted after analysis of 10 years of blockchain data
U.S. authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind a multi-million darknet-based BTC mixing service, Bitcoin Fog, after analyzing 10 years of blockchain data.Authorities have issued a chilling warning to...
Digital intelligence must overcome challenges to solving crypto crimes
While the value of cryptocurrencies has varied wildly in the last year, this has not diminished crypto’s attractiveness to criminals. Many of them are moving their illegal activities underground...
Commodified Cybercrime Infrastructure: Exploring the Underground Services Market for Cybercriminals
Cybercriminal takeover
The server takeover is the earliest stage, where exposed assets are enumerated (i.e., via network scanners), accessed, and categorized by features (e.g., availability, bandwidth, and type of GPU)...
