Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Eduardo Arellano-Felix The third of three brothers who federal authorities allege led one of the most powerful drug cabals in Mexico was extradited to the U.S. to face racketeering drug trafficking and money laundering charges, capping a two-decade long quest by U.S….
Mac botnet generated $10,000 a day for Flashback gang
Flashback was robbing Google of advertising dollars by redirecting clicks from infected Mac OS X machines and stealing the ad revenue. View full post on firefox hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Flashback gang could be making $10K a day off infected Macs
The Flashback malware that’s infected hundreds of thousands of Macs may be generating more than $10,000 a day for the hackers who made the Trojan horse, Symantec said. View full post on Computerworld Security News View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements
‘Police ransom’ Trojans the work of single Russian gang, Trend finds
The wave of ‘police Trojan’ ransomware that has hit PC users across the developed world in the last year is probably the work of a single highly-active Russian cybercrime gang, a forensic analysis by Trend Micro has concluded. First detected in 2011, there have been numerous police ransom attacks in…
Kelihos gang building a new botnet, researchers say
The cybercriminal gang that operated the recently disabled Kelihos botnet has already begun building a new botnet with the help of a Facebook worm, according to security researchers from Seculert. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, announced that they took control of the 110,000…
Russian police arrest notorious ‘Carberp’ Trojan gang
Russian police are reported to have arrested the gang behind the notorious Carberp Trojan used to steal hundreds of millions of roubles from online bank customers during one of the most notorious cybercrime campaigns ever to hit the country. In a major police operation, The Federal Security Service (FSB) and…
Trojan gang targets BT, Talk Talk and Sky customers
Criminals using a dangerous variant of the Zeus bank Trojan have started hacking BT, Talk Talk and Sky phone accounts as a way of redirecting phone calls from bank fraud services away from victims. As with other financial malware, the Ice IX Trojan is designed to steal bank logins, emptying…
Credit card fraud mastermind forced gang members to have group sex to weed out undercover federal agents
Vikas Yadav, of Athens, Georgia, videotaped himself having sex with men and women he met in seedy sado-masochistic online chat rooms in a bid to weed out undercover federal agents. View full post on credit card fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
The gang that hijacked your computer
Five men believed to be responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and other social networks — and to have pocketed several million dollars from online schemes — are hiding in plain sight in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to investigators at Facebook and several independent computer security researchers….
Koobface gang turns off command servers, as Russian police explain lack of action
The publication of a detailed probe into the alleged members of the Koobface malware gang appears to have had an instant impact. But there’s no sign that the Russian authorities are planning to investigate the alleged gang anytime soon. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post…
