Computer Crimes And Punishment

guest · Nov 18, 2020

Accused Ringleader of FIN7 Hacking Group Pleads Guilty
Andrii Kolpakov Faces 25 Years for Wire Fraud And Conspiracy, Documents Show
November 18, 2020
https://www.databreachtoday.com/accused-ringleader-fin7-hacking-group-pleads-guilty-a-15397

An accused ringleader of the notorious FIN7 hacking group, which prosecutors say stole 15 million payment cards over several years, has pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges, according to court documents filed in the case this week.

In the court documents, Kolpakov was considered a high-ranking member of FIN7 during the two years between when he started working for the hacking group in 2016 and his arrest by law enforcement in Europe in 2018.

"Defendant Kolpakov served as a high-level hacker, whom the group referred to as a 'pentester,' and was directly involved in breaching the networks of numerous prominent U.S. businesses," according to the plea agreement. "
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In addition to Kolpakov, police arrested and charged two other FIN7 members, Dmytro Fedorov and Fedir Hladyr, who were also accused of allegedly helping to lead the hacking group. Hladyr pleaded guilty in 2019, and his sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 11 (see: Credit Card Theft Ringleader Pleads Guilty).
The case against Dmytro remains ongoing, court records show.
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guest · Nov 19, 2020

Nintendo sues more hack sellers, ‘a worsening international problem’
Another lawsuit filed in Seattle court
November 18, 2020
https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/18/21574488/nintendo-rcm-loader-jailbreak-lawsuit-switch

Nintendo of America has filed a lawsuit against an Amazon Nintendo Switch hack reseller — the sort of litigation it’s taken on in similar cases in the past. Nintendo’s lawyers allege the Amazon seller, Le Hoang Minh, circumvents Nintendo’s copyright measures in selling an RCM Loader, used to “jailbreak” the Nintendo Switch.

The lawsuit was filed in a Seattle court on Wednesday, according to court documents obtained by Polygon. In the lawsuit, Nintendo outlines what it calls a “serious, worsening international problem” with video game software piracy.
In the previous lawsuits, the sellers were accused of trafficking in hardware and software created by a hacking group called “Team Xecuter.”
A full copy of the court filing is available below.
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guest · Nov 20, 2020

Hacker closing out prison sentence in Chicago halfway house
November 19, 2020
https://apnews.com/article/technology-jeremy-hammond-chicago-1d9fb5cb531781b112ceb4741456739d

Computer hacker Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for breaking into computer systems of security firms and law-enforcement agencies, will serve out the remainder of his term in a Chicago halfway house, a U.S. Bureau of Prison spokesman said Wednesday.

Hammond, who has gained mythic status among his supporters, was released Tuesday from the Memphis Federal Correctional Institution in Tennessee to community confinement, said Bureau of Prisons spokesman Emery Nelson. Citing privacy and security reasons, Nelson refused to release information on the conditions of Hammond’s confinement. He is scheduled for release in March.
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Over the years, his supporters have elevated him to near-mythical status on the internet and have sold buttons, t-shirts and other merchandise bearing his name and picture. In a Tuesday tweet, the Jeremy Hammond Support Committee expressed joy that Hammond had been released from prison.
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ronjor · Nov 20, 2020

Convicted SIM Swapper Gets 3 Years in Jail

A 21-year-old Irishman who pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims has been sentenced to just under three years in prison. The defendant is part of an alleged conspiracy involving at least eight others in the United States who stand accused of theft via SIM swapping, a crime that involves convincing mobile phone company employees to transfer ownership of the target’s phone number to a device the attackers control.
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guest · Nov 22, 2020

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Two Nigerian Nationals Charged with Defrauding Victims Using Online Scams
June 15, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/...charged-defrauding-victims-using-online-scams
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Nigerian National Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Victims Using Online Scams
November 19, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/...uilty-defrauding-victims-using-online-scams-0

A Nigerian national pleaded guilty today in connection with defrauding victims using various online scams during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nosayamen Iyalekhue, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel scheduled sentencing for March 4, 2021. Iyalekhue was arrested in June 2020 along with a co-defendant, Esogie Osawaru, 27, who pleaded guilty on Nov. 12, 2020.
Iyalekhue and Osawaru participated in a series of romance, pandemic unemployment insurance, and other online scams designed to defraud victims by convincing them to send money to accounts controlled by the defendants.
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guest · Nov 25, 2020

Accused email scammers busted in Nigeria for alleged fraud against 50,000 victims
November 25, 2020
https://www.cyberscoop.com/nigeria-email-scam-arrests-bec-group-ib/

An Interpol-helmed operation led to the arrest of three suspected cybercriminal gang members in Nigeria whose outfit has allegedly targeted victims in more than 150 countries, including schemes that involved offering COVID-19 aid.

The sting, announced Wednesday, was part of Operation Falcon, a year-long investigation that teamed with cybersecurity company Group-IB and the Nigeria Police Force.

“This group was running a well-established criminal business model,” said Craig Jones, Interpol’s cybercrime director. “From infiltration to cashing in, they used a multitude of tools and techniques to generate maximum profits.”
The gang, dubbed TMT, is divided into numerous subgroups, according to Vesta Matveeva, head of Group-IB’s APAC Cyber Investigations Team. The three suspects arrested in Lagos tallied 50,000 victims in government and industry, the company said.
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Matveeva said via email that TMT overall might have compromised more than 500,000 victims since 2017.

TMT’s speciality is business email compromise (BEC), where the attackers pose as someone known to an organization, most often to request authentic-looking money transfers.
The gang deploys mass phishing campaigns and relies on a range of publicly-available spyware and remote access trojans, among them AgentTesla, Loki, AzoRult, Pony, NetWire, Spartan and NanoCore, according to Group-IB and Interpol.
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ronjor · Dec 1, 2020

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FBI arrests second Apophis Squad hacker in the US
First hacker already serving a three-year prison sentence in the UK
February 13, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-arrests-second-apophis-squad-hacker-in-the-us/
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Hacker Gets 8 Years in Prison for Threats to Schools, Airlines

By Ionut Arghire on December 01, 2020
A North Carolina man was sentenced to 95 months in federal prison for his involvement in multiple cyber and swatting attacks.
The man, Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 22, known online under monikers such as “WantedbyFeds” and “Hacker_R_US,” was indicted in early 2019 and pleaded guilty in November 2019.
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guest · Dec 1, 2020

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The guy who knew Nintendo’s Switch surprise ahead of time has pled guilty to hacking
The man repeatedly hacked Nintendo’s servers
January 31, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/...lty-hacking-department-justice-ryan-hernandez

DoJ: California man who hacked into Nintendo servers to steal video games and other proprietary information pleads guilty
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Nintendo hacker sentenced to 3 years in prison for hack
He pleaded guilty in January
December 1, 2020
https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/1/21815395/nintendo-hacker-three-years-prison

Ryan Hernandez, the 21-year-old California man who hacked into Nintendo’s internal network and leaked information about the Nintendo Switch before its launch, has been sentenced to three years in prison. Hernandez pleaded guilty in January to federal charges related to the hacking incident and possession of child pornography.

FBI investigators originally contacted Hernandez in October 2017 about his hacking attempts, when he was a minor. Hernandez promised them he’d stop hacking.
He didn’t.
Hernandez continued to hack Nintendo servers and leak information that he found there — such as “confidential information about various popular video games, gaming consoles, and developer tools,” according to the news release.
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DoJ: California hacker who stole proprietary information from Nintendo sentenced to three years in prison

guest · Dec 4, 2020

U.S. Law Enforcement takes action against approximately 2,300 money mules in global crackdown on money laundering
December 3, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/p...proximately-2300-money-mules-global-crackdown

The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and six other federal law enforcement agencies announced the completion of the third annual Money Mule Initiative, a coordinated operation to disrupt the networks through which transnational fraudsters move the proceeds of their crimes. Money mules are individuals who assist fraudsters by receiving money from victims of fraud and forwarding it to the fraud organizers, many of whom are located abroad.

Some money mules know they are assisting fraudsters, but others are unaware that their actions enable fraudsters’ efforts to swindle money from consumers, businesses, and government unemployment funds.
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Over the last two months, U.S. law enforcement agencies took action against over 2,300 money mules, far surpassing last year’s effort, which acted against over 600 money mules. This year, actions occurred in every state in the country.

The initiative announced today targeted money mules involved in a wide range of schemes including lottery fraud, romance scams, government imposter fraud, technical support fraud, business email compromise or CEO fraud, and unemployment insurance fraud. Many of these schemes target elderly or vulnerable members of society.
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guest · Dec 5, 2020

Italian police arrest two over hacking at defence group Leonardo
December 5, 2020
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-i...cking-at-defence-group-leonardo-idUKKBN28F0I0

A manager and a former employee of Leonardo were arrested on Saturday for their alleged role in hacking the Italian defence group’s computers to steal sensitive information between 2015 and 2017, prosecutors in the southern city of Naples said.

The arrests are a blow for Leonardo, which along with its aerospace activities also has a large cybersecurity division that counts NATO among its customers.
Naples prosecutors said in a statement that an ex-employee in Leonardo’s cyber-security department was suspected of having used malware to infect 94 computers to extract “classified information of significant value to the company”.
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guest · Dec 5, 2020

Rhode Island Man Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Launder Funds From Email Compromise Scheme
December 4, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/...spiring-launder-funds-email-compromise-scheme

A Rhode Island man was sentenced today in connection with a conspiracy to launder funds derived from business email compromise (BEC) schemes, including one that targeted a Dorchester, Mass. real estate attorney.

Sayon Balogun a/k/a “Oshine,” 32, a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $434,832 in restitution. Balogun was initially charged by criminal complaint on May 31, 2019, and arrested in Florida on June 10, 2019.
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In January 2018, Balogun’s co-conspirators gained access to email accounts belonging to a Massachusetts attorney engaged in real estate closings. The co-conspirators then mimicked (spoofed) the real estate attorney’s email account and sent emails to a Massachusetts resident who was the purchaser in a legitimate real estate transaction.
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guest · Dec 5, 2020

Lynn Man Sentenced in Romance Fraud Scam
December 4, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/lynn-man-sentenced-romance-fraud-scam

A Lynn man was sentenced yesterday for his role in an online romance scam that robbed elder victims of more than $180,000.

Fortune Aikorogie, a/k/a Imuetinyan Aikorogie, a/k/a Fortune Aikoriogie, a/k/a Imuetinyan Aikoriogie, 33, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to one year and one day in prison and three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $66,767 in restitution to two victims and to forfeit $75,500. Aikorogie pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to a bank, five counts of money laundering and one count of visa and passport fraud. In March 2019, Aikorogie was charged by indictment.
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Aikorogie, a naturalized citizen from Nigeria, served as a “catcher” in an online romance scam that robbed elder victims of more than $180,000.
The victim, now 72 years of age, was a widow with advanced Parkinson’s disease. A fraudster contacted her over Facebook and began wooing her online and over the phone [...]
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guest · Dec 5, 2020

Man Pleads Guilty to Role in Malware Protection Scam
December 4, 2020
https://www.securityweek.com/man-pleads-guilty-role-malware-protection-scam

Himanshu Asri, 33, of Delhi, India, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to wire fraud conspiracy, according to the office of U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island, Aaron Weisman.

Asri and his accomplices defrauded U.S. citizens, many of them older than 65, by telling them that malware had been detected on their computers and persuading them to send money for protection services that were not needed or ever provided, prosecutors said.
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guest · Dec 6, 2020

School IT teacher, 40, is jailed for six years after he hacked into his pupils' mobile phones to steal naked selfies from teenage girls and store them on his computer
December 4, 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...pupils-mobile-phones-steal-naked-selfies.html

A school IT teacher was jailed for six years today after hacking his pupils' phones to steal naked selfies of teenage girls and storing them on his computer.

High school technology expert Richard Edmunds, 40, told pupils he could fix their broken devices but took their private nude picture when he took their phones home.
Edmunds targeted a string of girls while working at a high school in Cardiff to gain iCloud passwords to download more than 1,700 images onto his home computer.
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When police searched his home they found 14 schoolgirls phones had been downloaded onto Edmunds' computer as well as thousands of indecent images of children.
Twice-married Edmunds, of Bridgend, admitted 19 charges including making indecent photographs, inciting sexual exploitation of a child and securing unauthorised access of a computer.
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guest · Dec 8, 2020

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France charges bitcoin expert Vinnik with money laundering
January 24, 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/france-charges-bitcoin-expert-vinnik-with-money-laundering/
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Russian Alexander Vinnik sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for money laundering
December 8, 2020
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112074/cyber-crime/alexander-vinnik-sentence-france.html

Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik was sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for money laundering and ordered to pay 100,000 euros in fines.

The man went on trial in Paris for having defrauded nearly 200 victims across the world of 135M euros using ransomware.
Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged with different hacking crimes in Russia, France, and the United States.
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Vinnik was convicted of money laundering but prosecutors didn’t find enough evidence to convict him of extortion.

“The court convicted Vinnik of money laundering but didn’t find enough evidence to convict him of extortion, and stopped short of the 10-year jail term and 750,000 euros in fines that prosecutors had requested.” reported the Associated Press.
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guest · Dec 9, 2020

Former NSA contractor Reality Winner loses appeal, will remain imprisoned
December 8, 2020
https://www.cyberscoop.com/former-nsa-contractor-reality-winner-loses-appeal-will-remain-imprisoned/

The former National Security Agency contractor convicted in 2018 of illegally leaking top secret information to a news organization will remain in federal prison after an appeals court upheld a ruling against a compassionate release amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The eight-page opinion Monday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for 11th Circuit backed an earlier ruling that lawyers for Reality Winner had not sufficiently shown that her medical conditions or prison conditions justified an early release.

“After careful consideration and with the benefit of oral argument, we conclude that the District Court did not abuse its discretion in denying Ms. Winner’s motion,” Monday’s opinion says. “Because we resolve her appeal on this basis alone, we need not (and do not) address Ms. Winner’s other arguments.”
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Some have branded Winner a whistleblower, given that the leaked document expanded the publicly available information about the Russian threat to elections at a time when the White House was claiming it was a hoax.
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guest · Dec 10, 2020

Teen who shook the Internet in 2016 pleads guilty to DDoS attacks
December 10, 2020
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ternet-in-2016-pleads-guilty-to-ddos-attacks/

One of the operators behind a Mirai botnet pleaded guilty to their involvement in a huge DDoS attack that caused a massive Internet disruption during October 2016.
Over 100,000 infected devices used in the attack
The defendant, a minor when the attacks took place, and his conspirators targeted their massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack at the Sony PlayStation Network’s gaming platform but it also affected the systems of Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn.
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Dozens of big sites and platforms affected
The huge 2016 Dyn DDoS attack resulted in a massive Internet disruption later spread to hundreds of thousands of sites that used the DNS provider's services.

The massive DDoS attack indirectly affected Dyn's servers and brought down a substantial part of the Internet across both North America and Europe together with Sony's PlayStation Network, the primary target of the attack.

"According to court documents, on Oct. 21, 2016, the individual and others used the botnet they created to launch several DDoS attacks in an effort to take the Sony PlayStation Network’s gaming platform offline for a sustained period," DoJ press release said.
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guest · Dec 10, 2020

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Ex-Cisco engineer charged with wiping WebEx Teams accounts
August 27, 2020
https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/cy...harged-with-wiping-16000-internal-webex-teams
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Ex-Cisco Engineer Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Hacking
Prosecutors Say Sudhish Ramesh Caused $1.4 Million in Damages
December 10, 2020
https://www.inforisktoday.com/ex-cisco-engineer-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-hacking-a-15564

A former Cisco engineer has been sentenced to serve 2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that he hacked his former company, causing $1.4 million in damages, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
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guest · Dec 14, 2020

US Jails Journalists' Cyber-Stalker
December 14, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-jails-journalists-cyberstalker/

A cyber-stalker from Arizona who joined up with a neo-Nazi group to harass and threaten journalists, advocates, and other targets has been sentenced to prison.
Johnny Roman Garza admitted to conspiring with other members of the Atomwaffen Division to deliver menacing messages to journalists online and in person, sometimes targeting their homes.
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guest · Dec 15, 2020

Six men charged with stealing ‘millions’ of airline frequent flier miles
December 14, 2020
https://www.dallasnews.com/business...ing-millions-of-airline-frequent-flier-miles/

Six men, including one from North Texas, have been arrested and charged in a federal court as part of an international conspiracy to steal millions of airline frequent flier miles and sell ill-gotten plane tickets to unsuspecting buyers.

A Polish suspect, Wojciech Borkowski, was turned over to the FBI last week after being extradited from his home country on charges of hacking into consumers’ airline mile accounts and using those miles to buy flights for customers paying him for tickets, according to the office of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
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Law enforcement already had arrested five suspected accomplices in the United States, including Terran Oliver, 51, of Allen. Other suspects arrested include Semaj Lee, 55, of Oklahoma City; Derrick Booker, 49, of Spencer, Okla.; Yusuf Siddique, 30, of Folsom, Calif.; and Stanley Benton, 42, of Los Angeles. Those five men have all accepted plea deals and could face up to five years each in jail and a $250,000 fine, according to court records.

Authorities said customers in the U.S. would send their flight requests, personal information and a money order to one of the five men, who would then send it to Borkowski in Poland. Borkowski, who allegedly hacked into accounts to get access to frequent flier miles, would send a reservation number back to the U.S. to generate a boarding pass.
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guest · Dec 18, 2020

Dutch Hacker Who Allegedly Broke into Trump’s Twitter Account Walks Free
December 17, 2020
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender....-trumps-twitter-account-walks-free-24913.html

Victor Gevers, the ethical hacker who earlier this year claimed to have broken into President Trump’s Twitter account, will not be punished, a Dutch prosecutor announced Wednesday.

“Logging in to the Twitter account of US President Trump by a Dutch ethical hacker in October 2020 was not punishable. That is the conclusion of the Public Prosecution Service after an investigation by the Team High Tech Crime of the National Unit,” reads a rough translation of the news release.
However, not all hacking is malicious, and Dutch authorities determined that Gevers indeed was wearing his white hat while breaking into Trump’s Twitter account.
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“The hacker released the login himself,” the news release continues. “He later stated to police that he had investigated the strength of the password, because there were major interests involved if this Twitter account could be taken over so shortly before the presidential election.”

As reported by Silviu Stahie in October, this was not the first time hackers allegedly guessed Trump’s Twitter password.
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guest · Dec 20, 2020

Virginia Man Arrested For Online Sextortion Scheme
December 18, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/virginia-man-arrested-online-sextortion-scheme

First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Terrell Ashby, 22, of Williamsburg, VA, was arrested and charged by Complaint for cyberstalking a young woman residing in Delaware County, PA in connection with a “sextortion” scheme.

According to the Complaint, in August 2020, Terrell Ashby used a social-media platform to contact a 20 year-old woman (the victim). Ashby, using the online moniker “Jason Brandon,” sent a message to the victim offering her a large sum of money and enticing her to communicate with him on another electronic messaging application. The victim agreed and subsequently engaged in a nude video chat with the defendant.
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The defendant then sent the victim multiple messages demanding all of the money in her bank account. In these messages, Ashby threatened to disseminate the nude photos of the victim to her college and other social media friends and followers if she did not pay him more money.
If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of 5 years’ imprisonment, 3 years’ supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
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guest · Dec 22, 2020

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Covina Man Arrested on Federal Charge Alleging He Cyberstalked and Threatened Violence Against Teenage Girls via Social Media
April 21, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/p...eging-he-cyberstalked-and-threatened-violence
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San Gabriel Valley Man Admits to Cyberstalking Two Teenage Girls
December 18, 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/san-gabriel-valley-man-admits-cyberstalking-two-teenage-girls

A Covina man pleaded guilty today to federal cyberstalking charges for his multiyear internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances.

Carl De Vera Bennington, 34, pleaded guilty via videoconference to two counts of cyberstalking.
According to his plea agreement, Bennington repeatedly sent one victim unsolicited online messages over a period of several years. When she blocked him from contacting her from one of her online accounts, Bennington created new online accounts and then continued sending her messages, including graphic messages between June and November 2019 in which he insulted the victim, [...]
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guest · Dec 22, 2020

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Computer Programmer Pleads Guilty to Lying about Silk Road Involvement
September 24, 2020
https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-s...-guilty-to-lying-about-silk-road-involvement/
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Former 'Silk Road' Associate Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison
December 22, 2020
https://www.databreachtoday.com/former-silk-road-associate-sentenced-to-8-months-in-prison-a-15643

A key player in the now-defunct "Silk Road" darknet marketplace who hid his involvement with the creation and operation of the website has been sentenced to eight months in federal prison for making false statements to federal investigators, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Michael R. Weigand, who went by the online handle "Shabang," was sentenced Friday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which oversaw the case, reports. He pleaded guilty in September to concealing his role in operating the Silk Road website (see: Former 'Silk Road' Associate Pleads Guilty to Lying to Feds).
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The Daily Beast and other news outlets have reported that President Donald Trump is considering a pardon for Ulbricht, SilkRoad's founder.
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DoJ: Computer Programmer Sentenced To Prison For Making False Statements About His Involvement In The “Silk Road” Website

Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL R. WEIGAND, a/k/a “Shabang,” a/k/a “~Shabang~,” a/k/a “~s,” a/k/a “s,” was sentenced to eight months in prison today for making false statements to federal agents about his involvement in, and his work for, the “Silk Road” online illicit black market, which was responsible for distributing hundreds of millions of dollars of narcotics and other contraband.
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guest · Dec 23, 2020

US Teen Accused of Deadly Cyber-stalking Campaign
December 23, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-teen-accused-of-deadly/

A man from New York City has been charged with waging a grim cyber-stalking campaign against a female college student.

Desmond Babloo Singh allegedly created over 100 accounts on social media platforms and email services and used them to harass a former classmate of his sister for whom he claimed to have developed romantic feelings.
Nineteen-year-old Singh professed his love to the unnamed victim via an Instagram story in February 2020. When she didn't return his affections, Singh allegedly accessed several of the victim's electronic accounts without authorization, changing her passwords to lock her out of the accounts. [...]
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Singh is accused of the federal charges of cyber-stalking, causing intentional damage to a protected computer, aggravated identity theft, e-mailing a hoax bomb threat, and murder for hire.
If convicted on all counts, Singh could be sentenced to a maximum of 32 years in prison.
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DoJ: New York Man Arrested on Federal Charges in Maryland for Cyberstalking, Attempted Murder for Hire, and Perpetrating False Information and Hoaxes

Used More than 100 Accounts, Including Through Social Media Platforms and E-Mail, to Threaten and Harass Female Victim in Maryland
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