SecurityWeek reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Nigerian national Solomon Ekunke Okpe has been sentenced to four years and one-month imprisonment for his involvement in several business email compromise, romance, check-cashing, and work-from-home scams that included MidFirst Bank and First American Holding Company as some of its victims.
More than $1 million in losses have been reported by U.S. businesses, banks, and individuals from Okpe's schemes, which included the use of phishing emails to facilitate credential and other data theft, online account compromise, and stolen credit card usage, according to the Justice Department.
Banks and other firms have also been duped by Okpe and his co-conspirators to transfer funds to attacker-controlled accounts.
Aside from impersonating online employers that sought to hire work-from-home employees, who have been asked to enable fraudulent activities, including counterfeit check deposits, Okpe and others have also created fake dating website accounts to lure individuals into transferring money or receive wire-transfer scam proceeds.
SiliconAngle reports that mounting security alert fatigue has prompted Torq to introduce its new HyperSOC system based on its Hyperautomation Platform using artificial intelligence to enable security operation center response automation, management, and monitoring in a bid to bolster the investigation and remediation of cybersecurity threats.
Moldovan botnet operator Alexander Lefterov, also known as Alipatime, Alipako, and Uptime, has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for his involvement in widespread attacks against U.S.-based computers, BleepingComputer reports.
CyberScoop reports that over 100 Ukrainian local government and police documents uploaded to VirusTotal in February were discovered to have been infected with the OfflRouter malware, which dates back to 2015 and could only spread through already compromised files and removable media devices.