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Aleksei Burkov, an ultra-connected Russian hacker once described as "An asset of supreme importance" to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to running a site that sold stolen payment card data and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks. Burkov, 29, admitted to running CardPlanet, a site that sold more than 150,000 stolen credit card accounts, and to being the founder and administrator of DirectConnection - a closely guarded underground community that attracted some of the world's most-wanted Russian hackers.
Past attacks were often rudimentary in strategy, uncoordinated, and opportunistic. Attacks used generic phishing lures posing as streaming services, banking institutions, or travel agencies.
Is the indictment of April 11 that the extradition cased was based on? If the initial indictment is anything like the DoJ press release of April 11. From the DoJ statement, the purported crimes appear to be: "Hacking" in headline but described as "Cracking" in text, and also 'conspiracy' in both the headline and the text.
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The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international...
A Nigerian citizen was extradited to the United States on charges related to his role in a major cybercrime scheme that involved business email compromise (BEC) attacks. read more
We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post. Compliance fatigue...
The activity associated with a cybercrime campaign targeting hospitality companies with remote access Trojans and other malware has intensified this year, Kaspersky reports. read more
A majority of U.S. consumers plan to do most of their holiday shopping online for the first time ever, yet a survey from F-Secure finds that most internet users remain concerned about their...