Tag: cybercrime
A Conti coder’s ransomware spree ends in a four-year sentence
Oleksii Lytvynenko, a lawyer who coded for the Conti ransomware crew, will spend four years in a US prison.
US strike force raids pig-butchering bazaar and seizes $52M in Tether
Washington took down Xinbi Guarantee's Telegram channels and froze $52.8M in stablecoin.
Brazil crime group Slim Spider drains wallets through cloud key theft
CrowdStrike details Slim Spider, a Brazil-based group stealing crypto custody secrets from financial clouds.
BraZetsu turns hacked Windows machines into inventory for access bazaar
Group-IB details BraZetsu, a Python malware framework that stocks a paid marketplace with hacked Windows hosts.
Russian man extradited over Excel malware sent to 80,000 freelancers
A Russian man is extradited to face charges over Excel macro malware sent to roughly 80,000 freelancers.
Jackpotting crew pleads guilty after ATMs refuse to pay out
Five Venezuelan nationals pleaded guilty to failed ATM jackpotting attempts in Kansas, with one drawing nine months.
INTERPOL’s Jackal IV sweep snares 58 in global fraud network takedown
An eight-month INTERPOL push against West African cybercrime ends with 58 arrests and 263 suspects identified.
Bogus rescue outfit double-dips on ransomware victims
GuidePoint finds a sham firm called Ransom Busters billing victims for recoveries it likely cannot deliver.