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Exclusive: Dutch Cops on AlphaBay ‘Refugees’

July 20, 2017 admin AlphaBay takedown, Europol, FBI, Hansa Market, Other, Petra Haandrikman, Rob Wainwright

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:14:42 +0000

Following today’s breaking news about U.S. and international authorities taking down the competing Dark Web drug bazaars AlphaBay and Hansa Market, KrebsOnSecurity caught up with the Dutch investigators who took over Hansa on June 20, 2017. When U.S. authorities shuttered AlphaBay on July 5, police in The Netherlands saw a massive influx of AlphaBay refugees who were unwittingly fleeing directly into the arms of investigators. What follows are snippets from an exclusive interview with Petra Haandrikman, team leader of the Dutch police unit that infiltrated Hansa. Vendors on both AlphaBay and Hansa sold a range of black market items — most especially controlled substances like heroin. According to the U.S. Justice Department, AlphaBay alone had some 40,000 vendors who marketed a quarter-million sales listings for illegal drugs to more than 200,000 customers. The DOJ said that as of earlier this year, AlphaBay had 238 vendors selling heroin. Another 122 vendors advertised Fentanyl, an extremely potent synthetic opioid that has been linked to countless overdoses and deaths. In our interview, Haandrikman detailed the dual challenges of simultaneously dealing with the exodus of AlphaBay users to Hansa and keeping tabs on the giant increase in new illicit drug orders that were coming in daily as a result.

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FBI: Extortion, CEO Fraud Among Top Online Fraud Complaints in 2016

June 23, 2017 admin bleepingcomputer.com, Catalin Cimpanu, ceo fraud, extortion, FBI, ic3.gov, Internet Crime Complaint Center, Other, ransomware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:09:22 +0000

Online extortion, tech support scams and phishing attacks that spoof the boss were among the most costly cyber scams reported by consumers and businesses last year, according to new figures from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The IC3 report released Thursday correctly identifies some of the most prevalent and insidious forms of cybercrimes today, but the total financial losses tied to each crime type also underscore how infrequently victims actually report such crimes to law enforcement.

Security Wired

Everything You Need to Know About James Comey’s Senate Hearing

June 8, 2017 admin FBI, James Comey, Security

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:16:41 +0000

When it starts, what he’ll say, and more, all in one helpful primer. The post Everything You Need to Know About James Comey’s Senate Hearing appeared first on WIRED.

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What Christopher Wray Learned From the Last Two FBI Directors

June 8, 2017 admin Donald Trump, FBI, James Comey, Security

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:49:18 +0000

What Christopher Wray Learned From the Last Two FBI Directors

Christopher Wray, Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, spent years working with—and learning from—James Comey and Robert Mueller. The post What Christopher Wray Learned From the Last Two FBI Directors appeared first on WIRED.

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The Urgent Challenge of Replacing Comey Amid a Firestorm

May 10, 2017 admin Donald Trump, FBI, James Comey, National Affairs, Security

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 23:13:21 +0000

The Urgent Challenge of Replacing Comey Amid a Firestorm

The contentious firing of James Comey will make finding a replacement the Senate can stomach particularly hard. The post The Urgent Challenge of Replacing Comey Amid a Firestorm appeared first on WIRED.

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Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home

April 27, 2017 admin Bank of America, Charisse Castagnoli, Delta Community Credit Union, Dorothy Little, FBI, Jon Little, Other, TD Bank

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:36:44 +0000

The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if — at settlement — your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here’s the story about a phishing email that cost a couple their home and left them scrambling for months to recover hundreds of thousands in cash that went missing. It was late November 2016, and Jon and Dorthy Little were all set to close on a $200,000 home in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Just prior to the closing date on Dec. 2 their realtor sent an email to the Little’s and to the law firm handling the closing, asking the settlement firm for instructions on wiring the money to an escrow account.

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The Backstory Behind Carder Kingpin Roman Seleznev’s Record 27 Year Prison Sentence

April 24, 2017 admin bulba, FBI, FSB, Igor Litvak, nCux, Other, Roman Seleznev, secret service, Valery Seleznev, Vladimir Putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:37:23 +0000

Roman Seleznev, a 32-year-old Russian cybercriminal and prolific credit card thief, was sentenced Friday to 27 years in federal prison. That is a record punishment for hacking violations in the United States and by all accounts one designed to send a message to criminal hackers everywhere. But a close review of the case suggests that Seleznev’s record sentence was severe in large part because the evidence against him was substantial and yet he declined to cooperate with prosecutors prior to his trial. The son of an influential Russian politician, Seleznev made international headlines in 2014 after he was captured while vacationing in The Maldives, a popular vacation spot for Russians and one that many Russian cybercriminals previously considered to be out of reach for western law enforcement agencies. He was whisked away to Guam briefly before being transported to Washington state to stand trial for computer hacking charges.