FBI Investigates Hacking of Elite Twitter Accounts by Bitcoin Scammers
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
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation wants businesses to consider using stronger authentication methods like biometrics.
15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites Seized by FBI
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
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
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
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?
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
The CryptoWall malware encrypts computer files, forcing victims to pay a ransom to the criminals responsible.
Hackers Charged With Stealing One Billion Email Addresses
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.