Mir Islam – Computer Security Articles

Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

September 30, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, assad faiq, cosmothegod, dream agency, enzo zellocchi, Eric Taylor, Facebook, FBI, iris au, kenneth childs, ledger breach, Mir Islam, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rise agency, shopify, SIM swapping, tassilo heinrich, the godfather, tomi masters, Troy Woody Jr., vurg, Web Fraud 2.0, zort

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:33:10 +0000

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.

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Serial Swatter and Stalker Mir Islam Arrested for Allegedly Dumping Body in River

December 23, 2018 admin cyberstalking, Josh the God, Mir Islam, MrOsama, Ne'er-Do-Well News, SWATting, Tomi Michelle Masters, Troy Woody, Troy Woody Jr., UGNazi

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 20:24:29 +0000

A 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks — including a 2013 swatting incident at my home — was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping a friend dump the body of a housemate into a local river.

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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

May 24, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Andrew Finch, Associated Press, Call of Duty, Casey S. Viner, Cosmo the God, Eric Taylor, fatal swatting, Mir Islam, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Shane M. Gaskill, swautistic, Tyler Barriss

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 17:45:52 +0000

Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.

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Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced

February 17, 2017 admin Cosmo the God, Eric Taylor, exposed.su, Flycracker, HEROIN, LexisNexis, Mir Islam, Other, Sergey Vovnenko

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:46:56 +0000

It’s been a remarkable week for cyber justice. On Thursday, a Ukrainian man who hatched a plan in 2013 to send heroin to my home and then call the cops when the drugs arrived was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unrelated cybercrime charges. Separately, a 19-year-old American who admitted to being part of a hacker group that sent a heavily-armed police force to my home in 2013 was sentenced to three years probation.