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 Lawbreakers & Cybercrime

Bredolab botnet mastermind sentenced to four years

May 23, 2012

An Armenian man charged in 2010 with running the Bredolab botnet was sentenced this week in his home country to four years in prison.
 

Wrigley Field fans targeted by skimming scam

May 02, 2012

A group of six has been charged in the latest scam to defraud bank customers through the use of skimming devices, a trend that has seen a noticeable uptick in arrests and prosecutions over the past year.
 

Securities fraud hacker charged after $1 million heist

April 18, 2012

A Russian national is in custody in Newark, N.J., facing charges of hacking into the web accounts of several brokerages to initiate sham stock trades that allegedly netted $1 million.
 

Court ruling limits reach of U.S. anti-hacking law

April 12, 2012

A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling has said employees who violate their organization's user policies do not violate the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
 

Hacker who stole racy photos of celebrities pleads guilty

March 27, 2012

Following a plea deal that more than halved the prison time he faces, a 35-year-old Florida man admitted Monday to hacking into the email accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and dozens of other celebrities to steal photos, emails and other documents.
 

Claims over entrapment, FBI-enabled hacks fly after arrests

March 07, 2012

As the news settles that a trusted member of Anonymous was actually an FBI informant, some are wondering whether his FBI handlers went too far when trying to gather evidence about other suspected hackers.
 

Anonymous hacker-turned-informant helps feds arrest five

March 06, 2012

Sabu, an Anonymous/LulzSec/AntiSec hacker beloved by many across the world, has spent the last nine months providing information to the FBI. What does this mean to the future of the hacktivist movement?
 

Anonymous raids law firm over its defense of Marine

February 03, 2012

Anonymous stayed busy on Friday with the dump of 300 GB of emails and other communications, lifted from the law firm representing a U.S. Marine who recently escaped jail time for his role in a 2005 massacre.
 

FBI call gives clues into Anonymous, LulzSec probes

February 03, 2012

Security experts believe a member of Anonymous hacked into the email account of a law enforcement official, which provided them the credentials necessary to eavesdrop on an FBI-led conference call.
 

Palin hacker appeal rejected

February 02, 2012

David Kernell, who hacked into Sarah Palin's email account, has lost an appeal against his obstruction of justice charge.
 

SEC accuses Latvian man of hacking brokerage accounts

January 31, 2012

The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Latvian man with participating in a scheme that manipulated the value of more than 100 New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq stocks.
 

Secret Service charges Romanian man with ATM fraud

January 09, 2012

A Romanian citizen, with an expired U.S. visa, has been arrested on charges of serving as the "installer" of skimming devices on some 40 ATMs in the New York City area.
 

NYC authorities charge 55 in cyber fraud, ID theft ring

December 19, 2011

The defendants were part of a coordinated operation that resulted in the theft of more than $2 million from JP Morgan Chase Bank, TD Bank, Citibank, Discover and American Express.
 

2012 cyber crime predictions: More arrests and Willie Sutton 2.0

Stephen Cobb, security evangelist at ESET December 16, 2011

More cyber crime rings will be broken up in 2012, but the risk/reward ratio for cyber crime will remain criminal friendly.
 

Four charged with hacking Subway, other retailers

December 09, 2011

The defendants allegedly compromised the credit card data of 80,000 customers and made millions of dollars in unauthorized purchases.
 

Police charge hackers with targeting AT&T customers

November 28, 2011

Filipino authorities said they have arrested members of a terrorist-funded racket that was responsible for hacking telephone networks of telecommunications firms.
 

Three indicted in New York on ATM skimming charges

November 22, 2011

Two of the three men accused of swiping the debit card credentials of 1,490 ATM users in Manhattan remain behind bars. The other defendant is at large.
 

Romanian hacker accused of breaking into NASA server

November 17, 2011

Robert Butyka was detained Tuesday in Cluj Napoca, Romania's fourth most populated city.
 

Man charged with hacking Hoboken, N.J. mayor's email

November 10, 2011

Patrick Ricciardi, 45, allegedly abused his access as an information systems specialist to spy on official emails meant for Hoboken, N.J. Mayor Dawn Zimmer.
 

FBI arrests six in click-fraud cyber scam that netted $14M

November 09, 2011

A gang of Estonians is accused of infecting millions of computers, many in the United States, with DNS-changing trojans capable of manipulating the online advertising industry through clickjacking.
 

Accused Scarlett Johansson hacker claims innocence

November 02, 2011

A Florida man pleaded innocent Tuesday to hacking into the email accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera and dozens of other celebrities to steal photos, emails and other documents.
 

Disgraced bike champ accused of cybercrime

October 26, 2011

Cyclist Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his Tour de France medal in 2006 following positive doping results, now faces arrest in France for his alleged involvement in planting a trojan on the computer network of the French national anti-doping laboratory (LNDD), which conducted the test. According to reports, French prosecutors said Landis and Arnie Baker, his coach at the time, employed a hacker at Kargus Consultants to plant the trojan in an attempt to steal documents from the lab for an appeals process they were pursuing. Kargus has also been suspected of breaking into Greenpeace and French utility company EDF. Prosecutors said Landis should serve an 18-month suspended prison sentence for his part in the alleged scheme.
 

Accused LulzSec hacker pleads innocent to Sony attack

October 18, 2011

A purported member of the hacktivist group LulzSec pleaded innocent Monday in federal court in Los Angeles to charges of hacking into the systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Cody Kretsinger, a.k.a. "recursion," 23, of Arizona is facing one count each of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. He is accused of participating in a weeklong SQL injection attack, ending in early June, on the Sony Pictures site. The compromise resulted in the theft of data belonging to roughly one million users, some of which was publicly posted.
 

Celebrity email hacker arrested

October 14, 2011

A Florida man has been charged with hacking into the email accounts of Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera, Scarlett Johansson and dozens of other celebrities to steal photos, emails and other documents. Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville was nabbed following an 11-month police investigation dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi," according to an FBI statement this week. Once he had access to a victim's email account, which he obtained by using publicly available information, he allegedly changed the settings so that all of their emails would be automatically forwarded to him. He also stole private photos, which he offered to celebrity blogs. Chaney was charged with accessing and damaging protected computers without authorization, wiretapping and aggravated identity theft. He faces up to 121 years in prison.
 

More than 100 charged in ID theft ring

October 10, 2011

The organized structure of a huge identity theft operation, based in New York, allowed members to make millions in profits.
 

Countrywide insider gets eight months in prison for theft

September 28, 2011

A senior analyst at Countrywide Financial was ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution after pleading guilty to his role in a scam to steal personal data of customers.
 

Microsoft disrupts Kelihos botnet, names alleged mastermind

September 27, 2011

The Kelihos botnet, made up of approximately 41,000 infected computers worldwide, was capable of sending 3.8 billion spam emails per day.
 

Microsoft wins Rustock civil case, passes evidence to FBI

September 23, 2011

Microsoft has prevailed in its civil case against the operators of the Rustock botnet, which in its heyday controlled a network of more than a million computers.
 

Seattle men indicted on hacking, fraud charges

September 22, 2011

Three men in their 30s used low- and high-tech means to install malware to steal banking credentials and credit numbers from dozens of businesses, according to federal prosecutors.
 

Hacker "soldier" steals $3.2 million from U.S. companies

September 15, 2011

Researchers at Trend Micro say they have been hot on the tracks of a corporate hacker, and now they are turning over their findings to U.S. law enforcement.
 
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