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A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacker group has been arrested in Australia, police said on
Wednesday.
The Australian Federal Police have said that a 17-year-old has appeared in court to face charges related to actions taken on behalf of Anonymous.
Russian authorities claim to have the mastermind behind the Carberp banking Trojan and other members of the criminal gang in custody.
A Wisconsin man has been charged for his role in a series of DDoS attacks against Koch Industries during Anonymous’ OpWisconsin in 2011.
The Egyptian military has arrested three scuba divers accused of cutting an undersea Internet cable off the coast of the northern city of Alexandria.
Blanchard's Liquors of Allston discovered that its point-of-sale systems had been infected with malware and some customer credit and debit card information may have been compromised.
New malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems and ATMs has stolen payment card information from severa majorl US banks, researchers say. The author behind the malware appears to have links to a Russian cyber-crime gang.
Microsoft has finally opened up and disclosed how frequently U.S. and foreign governments demand user data, and how often it hands the information over. While it appears to be frequently, not a lot of personal data is being disclosed, according to the report.
Chase Bank customers who took to social media on Tuesday to express concern and anger over reports of null accounts and zero balances can rest easy the bank says, because the problem has been resolved.
There are an estimated 3,600 organized crime groups currently operating in Europe, the European Union law enforcement agency Europol said in its 2013 EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment study.
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Cybercriminals are constantly going up against anti-fraud measures designed to stop their efforts and they need to bypass them in order to make a profit.
Zeus 2.1 now boasts features that help it avoid analysis and hostile takeover from law enforcement, researchers, or competing cybercriminal organizations.
When it comes to infrastructure, money mules are important - if not more important - than having a botnet or a phishing attack set up. After all, what use are online banking credentials if you can’t cash them out?
“The Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact,” showed that two-thirds (65 percent) of Internet users globally, and almost three-quarters (73 percent) of U.S. Web surfers have been a victim of cybercrime.
Fighting web fraud is a game of cat and mouse between fraud analysts and cybercriminals where the odds are stacked against fraud analysts. Transaction data can provide a window into behaviors that can help identify cybercrime hot spots still in formation.
We designed and performed an experiment that allows us to take the pulse on Nigerian scammers. Are the scammers really from Nigeria? What do they want, and how do they get it?
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