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  • 19 Jan 2021 | Racist Robocaller Fined $9.9mn
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FBI Investigates Hacking of Elite Twitter Accounts by Bitcoin Scammers

By Eric Priezkalns 17 Jul 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

Some suspect insiders were paid to give access to the accounts of VIPs including Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Kanye West.


FBI Warns SIM Swapping Has Undermined Multi-Factor Authentication

By Eric Priezkalns 16 Oct 2019 Risk, Fraud & Security

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation wants businesses to consider using stronger authentication methods like biometrics.


15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites Seized by FBI

By Eric Priezkalns 4 Jan 2019 Risk, Fraud & Security

The criminal services had been used to launch hundreds of thousands of distributed denial of service attacks.


Cox Communications VP Pleads Guilty to Multimillion Dollar Fraud

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Nov 2017 Risk, Fraud & Security

Former marketing exec Janet West told her assistant to purchase fictitious services using the assistant’s corporate credit card.


Two Year Prison Sentence for US Telco Fraudster

By Eric Priezkalns 3 Jan 2017 Risk, Fraud & Security

Edwin Fana and his accomplices stole data for 11,000 accounts, cloned mobile phones and made calls to the Caribbean.


Million Dollar Miami Fraudster Pleads Guilty

By Eric Priezkalns 5 Sep 2016 Risk, Fraud & Security

The FBI discovered the criminal had over 80 cloned phones at his home, which he used to make calls to the Caribbean.


Whose Phones Do the Police Bug?

By Eric Priezkalns 28 Jun 2016 Privacy & Intellectual Property

The statistics from the United States may surprise you. Relatively few wiretaps relate to the investigation of violent crime.


FBI Warns $18m Extorted by CryptoWall Trojan

By Eric Priezkalns 30 Jun 2015 Risk, Fraud & Security

The CryptoWall malware encrypts computer files, forcing victims to pay a ransom to the criminals responsible.


Hackers Charged With Stealing One Billion Email Addresses

By Eric Priezkalns 17 Mar 2015 Risk, Fraud & Security

US prosecutors accuse two Vietnamese of hacking into 8 email providers, then unleashing spam which generated USD2mn of revenues via the marketing websites of a Canadian conspirator.


Subex: The Ultimate Guide to Leveraging AI/ML to Combat Fraud

Top Stories on Commsrisk

Are SIM Swaps Rising? Freedom of Information Disclosure Shows UK Police Figures Are Unreliable


Overcoming the Risk Professionals Who Resist Change


AB Handshake Is SWIFT for Telecoms


Why Are Fair Usage Policies So Inconsistent?



The Assassin That Was Tricked by a Spoofed CLI


Leadership for Africans (and Everyone Else)


World’s Largest Dark Web Market Taken Down


Racist Robocaller Fined $9.9mn



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  • Wally Wally 26 Jan 2021
    AB Handshake Is SWIFT for Telecoms
    Interesting idea.
  • Wally Wally 12 Jan 2021
    RAFM Collaboration: Who Do You Know and Who Do You Respect?
    I don't half the groups on this list. Some of them must be doing almost nothing.

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