Busted

Porn Company Settles Spam Charges

March 4, 2008

Adult Website Operation Settles FTC Charges Unwitting Consumers Exposed to X-Rated Spam An X-rated Web operation that paid affiliates who used illegal e-mail to drive customers to its Web sites will pay a $413,000 civil penalty under a settlement reached with the FTC and the Department of Justice. The settlement also bars the illegal marketing [...]

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Canadian hacker ring busted

February 21, 2008

Quebec provincial police conducted raids on Wednesday, breaking up a hacking ring said to be responsible for an estimated CDN$45 million in damage to computer systems. Police did not release names of the accused who range in age from 17 to 26 years old. Three are minors. In a videotaped press conference posted to the [...]

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Batman strikes again

January 18, 2008

Paperghost continues zapping phishing script kiddie sites, serious business but quite a funny saga when carried out batman style. This time he enrolled a mom’s support with hilarious results. How to give a wannabe hacker a very bad day

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Script kiddies meet Batman

December 3, 2007

One of my favourite bloggers is Paperghost, aka Christopher Boyd, security researcher and malware basher. After reading his latest entry at Vitalsecurity I thought I’d share this link. Rise Up With Fists, Strike Down With Vengeance For the past week or so, I’ve been following a bunch of supposedly uber-cool hackers getting their kicks from [...]

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FBI: Botnet Crack Down (again) in Operation Bot Roast II

November 30, 2007

The FBI has announced “Operation Bot Roast II” — the second round of its investigations against botnets. According to the FBI, the busted cyber criminals caused $20 million in losses, including one victim who suffered damages of nearly $20,000 from denial of service (Ddos) attacks via botnets. National Press Release

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Debate with rogue antispyware maker

November 4, 2007

I have been following a thread about iedefender at CastleCops. The topic started with: Attached below is a copy of IEdefender (hxxp://www.iedefender.com/) a new rogue software. The vendor responded: iedefender: Hello, we’re developers of IEDefender, our software is clean and is real antispyware. As we can see, people from your site send our exe to [...]

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Supermarket chain easy mark

October 29, 2007

One of the biggest supermarket chains in the USA fell victim to online fraudsters. Evidently, no one at Minnesota-based Supervalu bothered to confirm the authenticity of emails sent in late February. Purporting to come from two of the company’s suppliers, the messages instructed Supervalu to wire all future payments to new bank accounts. Supervalu wired [...]

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DirectRevenue-Best Offers, shut down

October 24, 2007

Posted on its home page and giving no reason for the sudden closure. Best Offers and Direct Revenue have ceased operations. To service legacy consumers we are maintaining this page of uninstall instructions, an uninstall software tool, and an email based support service. By most accounts DirectRevenue made a lot of money off unsuspecting users.

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FTC Permanently Halts Media Motor Spyware Scam

October 1, 2007

Press release October 1, 2007. Trojan Program Downloaded Spyware, Adware, Porno Pop-Ups to Consumers’ Computers Operators who infected more than 15 million computers with destructive, intrusive spyware will give up $330,000 in ill-gotten gains from their venture to settle FTC charges that their scam violated federal law. The settlement will bar the defendants from downloading [...]

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The identity of Fake Steve revealed

August 7, 2007

Brad Stone of the Times unmasked Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine, as the anonymous blogger of “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.” “Damn, I am so busted, yo” was the headline at Dan Lyons blog Sunday, August 05. Well it had to happen. Honestly I can’t believe it’s taken this long. But [...]

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