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A Russian national has pleaded guilty in the US to developing and distributing the notorious SpyEye malware, which has infected more than a million computers and been used to steal millions of dollars.
29 January 2014
US prosecutors have charged BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and an accomplice with running a scheme to sell over $1 million in bitcoins to users of the underground Silk Road marketplace.
27 January 2014
US authorities have charged three men with running an online shop that made and sold counterfeit credit and debit cards and holographic overlays to crooks.
Texas police have arrested two Mexican citizens accused of using card data stolen in the Target data breach to buy tens of thousands of dollars' worth of goods.
21 January 2014
The National Retail Federation has filed an appeal of the $5.7 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard over credit card swipe fees green-lighted by a judge last month.
03 January 2014
A US judge has denied Nasdaq OMX's request to dismiss lawsuits filed by investors who say that they lost money thanks to the exchange operator's botched handling of the Facebook IPO.
17 December 2013
Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe is calling on banks to help fund a new London cyber-crime fighting unit, admitting that traditional policing methods are failing against high-tech crooks.
22 November 2013
Bank IT staffer Claudio Pallone found a sexually explicit photograph on a work laptop of a naked senior manager posing in front of a mirror, an employment tribunal has heard.
13 November 2013
Members of a UK fraud gang that used self-written malware to gather financial data and steal hundreds of thousands of pounds, have been convicted.
12 November 2013
The co-founder of Liberty Reserve, a digital currency outfit described by authorities as the criminal underworld's "bank of choice", has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges.
01 November 2013
Dutch police have arrested four men accused of using malware to steal in the region of EUR1 million from online bank accounts and then laundering the money using bitcoin.
30 October 2013
US ATM manufacturer Diebold has agreed to pay $48 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it handed over millions of dollars in bribes to bank officials in China, Indonesia and Russia.
23 October 2013
Virtual currency bitcoin has seen its value bounce back after an initial heavy fall in the wake of the FBI's take-down of the Silk Road online marketplace.
03 October 2013
Bitcoin exchange MT. Gox has filed a counter-suit against its one-time partner CoinLab, demanding the return of around $5.3 million in customer funds.
17 September 2013
New York prosecutors have charged two men with stealing trading code and data from their former employer, Flow Traders, and e-mailing it to themselves.
27 August 2013
The Dwolla account holding funds belonging to bitcoin exchange MT. Gox that was seized by the US government earlier this year held more than $2.9 million, newly filed court documents show.
20 August 2013
Several members of a cybercrime ring which trafficked more than 95,000 stolen credit card numbers, causing millions of dollars in losses, have been jailed following a trial in New York.
09 August 2013
Always read the small print. A Russian man who managed to rewrite the terms of his credit card agreement, without the provider noticing, is now suing for hundreds of thousands of dollars for breach of contract.
A US federal judge has ruled that bitcoin is a "form of money", paving the way for a legal case against a man accused of running a giant ponzi scheme using the virtual currency.
08 August 2013
A US judge has ruled that the Federal Reserve disregarded the intent of Congress by setting a cap on interchange fees for debit card transactions too high.
01 August 2013
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