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Another ransomware payment recovered by the Justice Department

July 20, 2022 admin healthcare providers, justice department, maui, north korean, ransom recovery, ransom.maui, ransomware, reports

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:50:14 +0000

The Justice Department announced it was able to forfeit ransomware payments made by health care organizations in Kansas and Colorado.

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A week in security (May 27 – June 2)

June 3, 2019 admin a week in security, Amazon, atm attacks, ATM fraud, baltimore, chrome, City of Baltimore, Department of Justice, doom, Federal Trade Commission, G Suite, gandcrab, gandcrab ransomware, Gmail, google, Google Chrome, hidden bee, justice department, NIST, privacy framework, protonmail, ransomware, Week in security, Youtube

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:09:55 +0000

A roundup of security news from May 27–June 2, including a look at 2019 ransomware outbreaks in the Unites States, ATM fraud, NIST’s privacy framework, more legal problems for Google and Facebook, and more.

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A week in security

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Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Swatting Case, Faces 20+ Years in Prison

November 14, 2018 admin Andrew Finch, Call of Duty, Casey Viner, justice department, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Shane Gaskill, Stephen McAllister, SWATting, swautistic, Tyler Barriss

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:27:01 +0000

A California man who pleaded guilty Tuesday to causing dozens of swatting attacks — including a deadly incident in Kansas last year — now faces 20 or more years in prison.

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Mirai Botnet Authors Avoid Jail Time

September 19, 2018 admin click fraud, Dalton Norman, Elliott Peterson, FBI, Internet of Things, IoT, Josiah White, justice department, Mirai botnet, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Paras Jha

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:54:40 +0000

Citing “extraordinary cooperation” with the government, a court in Alaska on Tuesday sentenced three men to probation, community service and fines for their admitted roles in authoring and using “Mirai,” a potent malware strain used in countless attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — including an enormously powerful attack in 2016 that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days.

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Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

December 13, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Akamai, anna-senpai, bitcoin, Breadcrumbs, click fraud, Dalton Norman, Daniel Kaye, exfocus, google, IoT botnet, Josiah White, justice department, Minecraft, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, OG_Richard_Stallman, ogexfocus, OVH, Paras Jha, Project Shield, Rutgers University DDoS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:23:18 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called “Internet of Things” devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks designed to knock Web sites and entire networks offline (including multiple major attacks against this site).

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Fund Targets Victims Scammed Via Western Union

November 20, 2017 admin Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Gilardi & Co., justice department, moneygram, Other, western union

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:25:09 +0000

If you, a friend or loved one lost money in a scam involving Western Union, some or all of those funds may be recoverable thanks to a more than half-billion dollar program set up by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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Dual-Use Software Criminal Case Not So Novel

April 4, 2017 admin Aeonhack, Allison Nixon, Blackshades RAT, Blackshades trojan, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Flashpoint, Hackforums, justice department, Kevin Poulsen, Limitless Keylogger, Mark Rumold, Mephobia, NanoCore, Net Seal, Other, Rat, remote access trojan, remote administration tool, Taylor Huddleston, TeamViewer and VNC, The Daily Beast, wired, Zachary Shames

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:41:33 +0000

“He built a piece of software. That tool was pirated and abused by hackers. Now the feds want him to pay for the computer crooks’ crimes.” The above snippet is the subhead of a story published last month by the Daily Beast titled “FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One.” The subject of that piece — a 26-year-old American named Taylor Huddleston — faces felony hacking charges connected to two computer programs he authored and sold: An anti-piracy product called Net Seal, and a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called NanoCore that he says was a benign program designed to help users remotely administer their computers. The author of the Daily Beast story, former black hat hacker and Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen, argues that Huddelston’s case “raises a novel question: When is a programmer criminally responsible for the actions of his users? Some experts say [the case] could have far reaching implications for developers, particularly those working on new technologies that criminals might adopt in unforeseeable ways.” But a closer look at the government’s side of the story — as well as public postings left behind by the accused and his alleged accomplices — paints a more complex and nuanced picture that suggests this may not be the case to raise that legal question in a meaningful way.