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The international law enforcement operation known as Trident is starting to have ripple effects in the fraud underground. Like the Darknet operation in October 2008, it is certainly a milestone in th...
Only select few have had a look at the script of the next James Bond feature film. It seems like Quantum, the secret criminal organization that in previous installments was busy short-selling the stoc...
The bloodhounds are continuing to register notable victories over online crime rings. This time there were a massive series of arrests done in US, UK and other countries in relation to fraudsters spr...
Five years ago, law enforcement forces were pretty clueless about Cybercrime and online banking fraud. National intelligence bureaus and police departments worldwide experienced a flood of unknown com...
A couple of months ago my wife, who works for a small start-up, got a brand new laptop for remote access. A small, white thing that looked pretty but, I suspected, came with little security, given tha...
You spend all year long working, and in summer time you deserve some R&R. Option 1: look after holiday packages. Fly charter, book a reasonably priced hotel, and rent a compact car to do some sigh...
West Bromwich is a 140,000 sized town about half way between London and Liverpool. It is the largest town in the United Kingdom without its own Royal Mail postcode. It does have a decent football club...
It’s now summer on Triton. Don’t pack your holiday gear though; the average temperature on Neptune’s icy moon, which is about 30 times further from the sun than Earth, is -235 Celsius (-391 Fahrenhei...
I went to my favourite fraud underground forum, bought my favourite Trojan kit (I like Zeus), and then I looked through the Build-a-Trojan checkbox list to see what the next step is. Find hosting. Hos...
He’s done it again! You got to love Paul the Octopus. To those of you living across the pond and not following football (soccer) news, that’s the cute octopus-turned-oracle that managed to predict ea...
In this special post I’m interviewing a brave soul. Lets start with some background: Mule recruitment is an essential part of today’s fraud supply chain. Mules are used to launder money or ship sto
In the last couple of months the RSA Anti Fraud Command Center witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of nationwide US financial brands attacked by Phishing. Ever since the good old days of the i...