Computer Crimes And Punishment

ronjor · Jul 31, 2019

Chinese National Sentenced to Over Three Years in Prison for Trafficking Counterfeit Apple Goods into the United States Tuesday, July 30, 2019

A Chinese national living in the United States on a student visa was sentenced today to 37 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for his role in a scheme to traffic and smuggle counterfeit Apple products, including phony iPhones and iPads, from China into the United States.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito of the District of New Jersey, Special Agent in Charge Brian Michael of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Newark and Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella made the announcement.
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guest · Aug 1, 2019

U.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities, businesses
August 1, 2019
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/sec...g-campaign-targeting-universities-businesses/

The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and other businesses from May 2013 through June 2014.

Filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the indictment identifies the defendants as Nigerian citizen Otuokere Sunday (aka Hulac Yun and Charles Quartz), and Americans Samantha Almodovar and Ardarari Byas, who were at one time students at the University of New Mexico and Southern Illinois University, respectively.
The DOJ alleges the trio was also aided by three additional unnamed co-conspirators, including another UNM student and two residents of China who acted as money mules. At least some of the unnamed mules were “unwitting” accomplices, the indictment states at one point.
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ronjor · Aug 1, 2019

Texas Deputy Sheriff Arrested For Cyberstalking Minor Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Defendant allegedly met victim while playing Minecraft video game online
BOSTON – A law enforcement officer from Texas has been charged in federal court in Worcester for cyberstalking a minor female residing in Worcester County.
Pasquale T. Salas, 25, a/k/a Gino, a deputy sheriff with the Matagorda County Sheriff’s Office, was arrested in Bay City, Texas, this morning. He will appear in federal court in the Southern District of Texas tomorrow and will appear in federal court in Worcester at a later date.
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ronjor · Aug 1, 2019

Man Pleads Guilty to Cyberstalking, ID Theft and Computer Hacking Wednesday, July 31, 2019

RICHMOND, Va. – A Culpeper County man pleaded guilty today to cyberstalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, and aggravated identity theft.
According to court documents, Satyasurya Sahas Thumma, 23, engaged in cyberstalking of two women he had dated after each broke up with him.
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ronjor · Aug 1, 2019

Wisconsin Man Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft Tuesday, July 30, 2019

St. Louis MO --- Christopher Crivolio, 47, of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, pled guilty today to one count of identity theft. Crivolio appeared before United States District Judge John A. Ross. Sentencing is scheduled for November 7, 2019.
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guest · Aug 2, 2019

Scammer Arrested After Defrauding US Universities of Over $870K
August 2, 2019
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...fter-defrauding-us-universities-of-over-870k/

Amil Hassan Raage was arrested for defrauding two U.S. Universities of more than $870,000 as part of a business email compromise (BEC) fraud scheme he ran during last year.

Raage pleaded guilty of receiving multiple payments totaling $749,158.37 from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and $123,643.77 from a Pennsylvania university.
Both universities were the victims of a spear-phishing attack which allowed the defendant to redirect some Dell equipment and services payments to his own Wells Fargo bank account in Minnesota.

"Raage’s sentencing is set for 8:30 a.m. on October 11, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel," says the Department of Justice press release.
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ronjor · Aug 2, 2019

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Warminster Man Sentenced to 2 ½ Years For Cyber Threats Directed at Estranged Wife

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Blair Strouse, 29, of Warminster, PA, was sentenced today to 30 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Petrese Tucker for charges related to cyberstalking his estranged wife.
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ronjor · Aug 2, 2019

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Collin County Man Arrested for Sending Threatening Social Media Texts

PLANO, Texas – A 23-year-old Richardson, Texas man has been arrested for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno.
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ronjor · Aug 2, 2019

Thursday, August 1, 2019
Fraudster Brought Back from Kenya to Face Jail Time for Stealing Almost $750,000 from UCSD through a Spear Phishing Campaign

San Diego – Amil Hassan Raage pleaded guilty to fraudulently receiving almost $750,000 as part of a spear phishing scheme. (Spear-phishing is when an unwitting victim responds to a bogus email, which the victim believes is from a trusted sender, and reveals confidential information to the fraudsters.)
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Minimalist · Aug 6, 2019

Pakistani man allegedly paid AT&T employees big bucks to jailbreak millions of iPhones

A 34-year-old Pakistani man has been charged with paying AT&T employees more than $1 million to plant malicious software that make it possible to use iPhones outside AT&T’s controls, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.
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https://www.cyberscoop.com/iphone-jailbreak-law-arrest-att/

ronjor · Aug 6, 2019

Mississippi man sentenced for internet stalking of young Evansville women Monday, August 5, 2019

Defendant sentenced to 46 months of imprisonment
Evansville – United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler, announced today the sentencing of Orlando Webber, 44, of Columbus, Mississippi for interstate stalking of young women from the Evansville area. Webber was sentenced to forty-six (46) months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release following the term of imprisonment by United States District Judge Richard Young in Evansville following a sentencing hearing on July 31, 2019
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guest · Aug 6, 2019

Haverford College Student Pleads Guilty to Attempt to Access President Trump’s Tax Information
August 6, 2019
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/p...s-guilty-attempt-access-president-trump-s-tax

United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Justin Hiemstra, 22, from St. Paul Park, Minnesota, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe on charges related to violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1030 for using a school computer and someone else’s username without that person’s permission in an attempt to illegally obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Minimalist · Aug 10, 2019

Class action lawsuit filed against Epic Games regarding hacked Fortnite accounts

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Epic Games by Franklin D. Azar & Associates in U.S. District Court in North Carolina, according to an article from Polygon.

The lawsuit concerns a bug in Fortnite that was successfully exploited by hackers. The hackers managed to gain access to personal information, such as credit and debit card details, stored in millions of Epic Games accounts.
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https://mspoweruser.com/class-actio...pic-games-regarding-hacked-fortnite-accounts/

guest · Aug 12, 2019

The Goulburn teens arrested over an international cyber fraud
August 11, 2019
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the...nternational-cyber-fraud-20190808-p52f9i.html

Imagine answering a knock on your door, only to find the police on your doorstep looking for your teenage son - there as a consequence of a Europol investigation that zeroed in on alleged offenders in sleepy Goulburn.
That's the reality faced by some "horrified" parents, whose credit cards were allegedly used by their teenage sons to buy denial-of-service software and launch cyber attacks.

"You and I would be playing a game, you would beat me and then I deploy the software against you as a [way to] get square," cybercrime squad commander Detective Superintendent Matt Craft.
Europol detectives discovered that individuals in Australia had purchased denial of service software from Europe, and "coordinated an international response," Det Supt Craft said.
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guest · Aug 12, 2019

Man jailed for cyber attacks against police websites in revenge for bomb hoax conviction
Liam Reece Watts, who is described by police as "immature", bragged about the attacks on social media
August 12, 2019
https://news.sky.com/story/man-jail...-in-revenge-for-bomb-hoax-conviction-11783829

Liam Reece Watts used specialist software to overload the Greater Manchester Police and Cheshire Police websites in separate attacks which temporarily brought down the sites.
The systems were targeted in distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, in which websites are targeted by a network of computers, or botnet.

The 20-year-old pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court to two counts of unauthorised acts with intent to impair operation of or prevent or hinder access to a computer.
Watts was previously convicted of unauthorised use of a computer over a similar attack on his college, and also had a conviction for attempted robbery.
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guest · Aug 13, 2019

Four men sentenced for child pornography, DOJ says they used bitcoin and Tor to cover their tracks
August 12, 2019
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/doj...ld-porn-used-bitcoin-tor-to-cover-tracks.html

Four men from across the U.S. and Canada were sentenced to decades in prison for running what the Justice Department called a “highly sophisticated” encrypted underground network for trading child pornography.

The Justice Department said the four convicted men ran a “global child exploitation enterprise” called “The Giftbox Exchange” on the open-source Tor Network, which uses an overlay network for directing internet traffic, obfuscating the details, locations and identities of those using it.
The website was paid for through bitcoin transactions, and the men “used other advanced technological means to thwart law enforcement efforts, including file encryption and cryptography.”

Patrick D. Falte, 29, of Franklin, Tennessee, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, three counts of advertising child pornography, and three counts of distributing child pornography. Benjamin A. Faulkner, 28, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to 35 years in prison; Andrew R. Leslie, 24, of Middleburg, Florida, was sentenced to 30 years in prison; and Brett A. Bedusek, 35, of Cudahy, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, for their roles in the scheme.
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Minimalist · Aug 13, 2019

UK Cops Take Down 13 Organized Crime Gangs

UK police have warned that organized crime gangs (OCGs) are increasingly turning their attention to online fraud, even as they registered success in taking many of them down this year.

Some 13 OCGs were dismantled in the first half of 2016, double the number of a year ago, according to the latest figures from banking group UK Finance.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-cops-take-down-13-organized/

ronjor · Aug 13, 2019

Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Former Student Sentenced For Destroying Computers at The College of St. Rose

ALBANY, NEW YORK - Vishwanath Akuthota, age 27, of Albany, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, to be followed by 1 year of supervised release, for intentionally damaging computer equipment owned by The College of St. Rose. Akuthota was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $58,471.
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guest · Aug 15, 2019

Owners of Fake Tech Company Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges
August 14, 2019
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ke-tech-company-plead-guilty-to-fraud-charges

Two Florida men have pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges filed in southern Illinois, where they targeted people with fake technical support services.
Michael Austin Seward of Deerfield Beach and Kevin James McCormick of Delray Beach admitted Wednesday they operated a scam called Client Care Experts.

The ads caused the computers to freeze and directed the owners to call a toll-free number, which connected them to a sales representative who continued the fraud by seizing control of the computer and selling remote "tune-up" and anti-virus software.
Federal prosecutors say the scam, which operated nationwide and in several countries from 2013 to 2016, took in over $25 million.
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guest · Aug 16, 2019

Decade-Long Bank Account Hacking Scheme Gets Fraudster 57 Months
August 16, 2019
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ount-hacking-scheme-gets-fraudster-57-months/

Brooklyn man Jason Mickel Elcock was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for a series of account hijacking attacks spanning more than a decade, having used stolen personal and financial information to pilfer over $1.1 million from banks and online retailers.
In this case, the account hijacking attacks were the result of account info stolen from tens of thousands of businesses and individuals, information which allowed Elcock and his co-conspirators to defraud their victims.

"The theft and exploitation of our online data by perpetrators hiding in the weeds of the Internet is becoming all too common. This Office is committed to identifying, exposing and prosecuting cyber thieves wherever they may be found," U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said.
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ronjor · Aug 16, 2019

Mandeville Resident and Former Department of Energy Contractor Pleads Guilty To Accessing Government Computer System without Authorization and Recklessly Causing Over $23,000 Worth of Damage

NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that GARY PETER SIMON, JR., age 56, a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on August 13, 2019 before United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry to a one-count bill of information charging him with intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage resulting in loss of more than $5,000 during one year, in violation of 18 U.S.C. '' 1030(a)(5)(B) and 1030(c)(4)(A).
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guest · Aug 18, 2019

Inland Empire Man Arrested on Federal Indictment for Allegedly Engaging in Sextortion with Victims He Messaged on Facebook
August 15, 2019
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/p...ment-allegedly-engaging-sextortion-victims-he

Jorge Esteban Sanchez Ramos, 23 – who used a series of online aliases, including “Nathan Ramirez,” “Juan Romero” and “George Sanchez” – was arrested without incident this morning at his Ontario residence by special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to the indictment, Sanchez’s conduct between April 2016 and May 2018 typically involved him using multiple aliases and Facebook accounts in order to contact his victims. Sanchez allegedly sent his victims – the indictment specifically alleges four women ranging in age between 18 and 24 – a series of messages complimenting the women and requesting that the women send him nude photographs or nude videos of themselves.
After the victims sent Sanchez nude photographs or videos, Sanchez – using a different screen name – sent menacing messages that threatened to post their nude images to social media unless they sent him additional sexually explicit images, the indictment alleges.
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Minimalist · Aug 19, 2019

UK hacker-for-hire jailed for role in SIM-swapping attacks, data theft

A British teenager has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after offering hacker-for-hire services to cash in on trends including SIM-swapping attacks.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/briti...-for-role-in-sim-swapping-attacks-data-theft/

guest · Aug 19, 2019

Man cheated S$500,000 from 62 people through Facebook investment scams
August 19, 2019
https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...0-62-people-through-facebook-investment-scams

To feed his gambling habit, Alvin Ker Jia Jun came up with a series of fake investment schemes using his personal Facebook account.
From 2017 to 2018, he swindled a total of S$503,988 from 62 unsuspecting victims, some of them his friends or acquaintances.

On Monday (Aug 19), Ker, 31, pleaded guilty in the State Courts to 40 counts of cheating. Ninety-five other similar charges will be taken into consideration for sentencing in October.
HOW HE CHEATED THEM
He made various posts on his Facebook account, seeking investors for non-existent schemes with attractive guaranteed rates of return.
People could choose a one-year or three-month scheme, where Ker promised they could double their investment capital within that period with the capital invested guaranteed.

In order to inspire confidence in the scheme and get more people involved, he also posted screenshots of the bank transfer on his Facebook page. His friends and victims shared these posts as well.
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Minimalist · Aug 19, 2019

Teen TalkTalk hacker ordered to pay £400k after hijacking popular Instagram account

One of the crew who hacked TalkTalk has been ordered to hand over £400,000 after seizing control of a high-profile Instagram account following a hack on Aussie telco Telstra.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/19/elliott_gunton_400k_repay_instagram_hacking_telstra/

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