Amir Hossein Golshan, 25, of Los Angeles, was sentenced to 96 months in prison for perpetrating multiple cybercrime schemes, including one involving SIM swapping. Between April 2019 and February 2023, Golshan caused roughly $740,000 in losses to hundreds of victims, as a result of various online scams and unauthorized access to digital accounts. According to ..
Tag : Cybercrime
All hacktivists should be treated as if they are malicious hackers because the distance between hacking/activism, malevolence, and damage has become too small and too vague. In legal terms, hacking is fundamentally the circumvention of system controls to obtain unauthorized access to that or another system. It is prohibited by the Computer Fraud and Misuse ..
È in corso una campagna di phishing che cita e utilizza i loghi di Uffici e Centri Nazionali di Polizia di Stato, Europol e Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza al fine di indurre le vittime a credere di essere state indagate per pedopornografia, invitandola a fornire giustificazioni entro 48 h, pena l’arresto. La Polizia Postale, che ha diramato ..
Cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has hobbled access to records for more than five weeks, officials said Tuesday. The announcement of a “sophisticated foreign cyberattack” was confirmation of what computer security experts suspected after the state’s ..
Two environmentalists told a federal judge Thursday that the public was the real victim of a global computer hacking campaign that targeted those fighting big oil companies to get the truth out about global warming. A climate scientist and the director of a fund that creates initiatives to address climate change spoke at the sentencing ..
Wisconsin teenager Joseph Garrison has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a scheme to access user accounts at a fantasy sports and betting website. According to court documents, on November 18, 2022, Garrison launched a credential stuffing attack against the betting site, obtaining access to approximately 60,000 user accounts. The defendant and others then stole ..
Moving to clamp down on the growing scourge of SIM-swapping and port-out fraud, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unveiled new rules mandating telcos to give consumers greater control of their mobile phone accounts. Under the new rules, wireless carriers are required to notify customers of any SIM transfer requests, a measure designed to thwart ..
An Israeli private investigator who made nearly $5 million by hacking companies and individuals has been sentenced to 80 months in prison in the United States, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. Authorities said the man, 52-year-old Aviram Azari, was arrested on computer hacking, wire fraud and identity theft charges when he traveled to the ..
Arkose Labs has analyzed and reported on tens of billions of bot attacks from January through September 2023, collected via the Arkose Labs Global Intelligence Network. Bots are automated processes acting out over the internet. Some perform useful purposes, such as indexing the internet; but the majority are Bad Bots designed for malicious ends. Bad ..
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