Computer Crimes And Punishment

stapp · Dec 4, 2022

Florida man Nicholas Truglia was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday for his involvement in a fraud scheme that led to the theft of millions from cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin.
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The 25-year-old was ordered to pay a total of $20,379,007 to Terpin within the next 60 days, until January 30, 2023.
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...s-for-involvement-in-22-million-crypto-heist/

ronjor · Dec 12, 2022

US Announces Charges, Arrests Over Multi-Million-Dollar Cybercrime Schemes

By Ionut Arghire on December 12, 2022
The US Department of Justice has announced the arrest of four individuals for their alleged roles in a fraud scheme targeting businesses, banks, and individuals.
According to the indictment, between April and June 2021, the four defendants participated in at least three fraud operations, including at least two business email compromise (BEC) schemes.
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stapp · Dec 14, 2022

Two internet ticket touts who resold tickets for events by artists including Ed Sheeran have been ordered to repay more than £6m.
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They have been given three months to repay £6,167,522.02 or face an extra eight years in prison.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-63972820

ronjor · Dec 14, 2022

Six Charged in Mass Takedown of DDoS-for-Hire Sites

December 14, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S. men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services.
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ronjor · Dec 20, 2022

Swatters used Ring cameras to livestream attacks, taunt police, prosecutors say

Dan Goodin - 12/19/2022
Kya Christian Nelson, 21, of Racine, Wisconsin, and James Thomas Andrew McCarty, 20, of Charlotte, North Carolina, gained access to 12 Ring cameras after compromising the Yahoo Mail accounts of each owner, prosecutors alleged in an indictment filed Friday in the Central District of California.
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In a single week starting on November 7, 2020, prosecutors said, the men placed hoax emergency calls to the local police departments of each owner that were intended to draw an armed response, a crime known as swatting.
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ronjor · Dec 22, 2022

Two men arrested for allegedly hacking JFK taxi dispatch system

By Jess Weatherbed Dec 22, 2022,
The two Queens residents charged cab drivers a $10 fee to skip to the front of the line for pick-ups.
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moredhelfinland · Dec 22, 2022

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stapp · Jan 14, 2023

A company accountant's claim for wrongful dismissal is thrown out after the TimeCamp computer programme installed on her laptop reveals discrepancies and she admits on video she "plugged time to files" she did not touch and was "really sorry".
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Reach CPA said it had fired her because she had "engaged in time theft" and counterclaimed for the wages paid for the misrepresented hours as well as the outstanding amount on an advance made to Ms Besse when she began working.
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https://news.sky.com/story/canada-t...-software-exposed-serious-misconduct-12785725

ronjor · Feb 2, 2023

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Man Charged in $110 Million Cryptocurrency Scheme
According to court documents, Avraham Eisenberg, 27, engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $110 million worth of cryptocurrency from the cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets and its customers and achieved this objective by artificially manipulating the price of certain perpetual futures contracts. He was previously arrested on Dec. 26, 2022, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, pursuant to a criminal complaint and ordered detained.
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ronjor · Feb 5, 2023

Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

February 5, 2023
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest.
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ronjor · Feb 6, 2023

European Police Arrest 42 After Cracking Covert App

By AFP February 6, 2023
European police arrested 42 suspects and seized guns, drugs and millions in cash, after cracking another encrypted online messaging service used by criminals.
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hawki · Apr 2, 2023

"2 charged with cutting wires; 40,000 lose internet service

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut police have charged two people with cutting more than 2,000 fiber optic cables, leaving over 40,000 homes and businesses without internet service in the southwestern part of the state..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...1&cvid=9cd1b00386b343cb998d25eac47b1a4d&ei=17

ronjor · May 9, 2023

U.K. Citizen Extradited and Pleads Guilty to Cyber Crime Offenses Tuesday, May 9, 2023

A U.K. citizen pleaded guilty today in New York to his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 23. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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ronjor · May 16, 2023

Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Russian National Charged with Ransomware Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure

Ransomware Attacks Against Law Enforcement Agencies in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, As Well As Other Victims Worldwide; U.S. Department of State Offers Reward Up to $10M
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The Justice Department today unsealed two indictments charging a Russian national and resident with using three different ransomware variants to attack numerous victims throughout the United States, including law enforcement agencies in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, as well as victims in healthcare and other sectors nationwide.
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stapp · May 19, 2023

Man jailed for running multimillion-pound criminal website iSpoof

Tejay Fletcher, 35, pleaded guilty to running iSpoof, a website that allowed criminals and fraudsters to appear as if they were calling from banks, tax offices and other official bodies in an attempt to defraud victims.
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The total losses of frauds enabled by iSpoof in the UK alone exceeded £43m, with total global losses estimated to be at least £100m.
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https://news.sky.com/story/tejay-fl...illion-pound-criminal-website-ispoof-12883414

ronjor · May 19, 2023

Friday, May 19, 2023
Man Charged for Alleged Participation in $45M CoinDeal Investment Fraud Scheme Involving Over 10,000 Victims

The companies were supposedly developing virtual-world technologies, including their own cryptocurrency, for use in a metaverse.
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ronjor · Jun 15, 2023

2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand

By Nic Perry 15 June 2023
The men last year struck a deal with prosecutors from New Zealand and the U.S. in which they pleaded guilty to being part of a criminal group and causing artists to lose money by deception.
Meanwhile Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, is continuing to fight the U.S. charges and threat of extradition. He has said he expects his former colleagues to testify against him as part of the deal they struck.
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ronjor · Jun 15, 2023

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Russian National Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Commit LockBit Ransomware Attacks Against U.S. and Foreign Businesses
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According to the criminal complaint, the LockBit ransomware variant first appeared around January 2020. LockBit actors have executed over 1,400 attacks against victims in the United States and around the world, issuing over $100 million in ransom demands and receiving at least as much as tens of millions of dollars in actual ransom payments made in the form of bitcoin.
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ronjor · Jun 24, 2023

Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker June 23, 2023
Joseph James O’Connor, 24, was sentenced Friday in a New York federal court to five years in prison after pleading guilty in May to four counts of computer hacking, wire fraud and cyberstalking. O’Connor also agreed to forfeit at least $794,000 to the victims of his crimes.
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stapp · Jun 30, 2023

YouTube scammer who stole millions in song royalties sentenced to 5 years

A YouTube scammer conspiring to run what Billboard described as possibly the largest music royalty scam in history, Jose Teran was recently sentenced by the US government to 70 months in prison.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...lions-in-song-royalties-sentenced-to-5-years/

stapp · Jul 6, 2023

A former Amazon manager described by prosecutors as the "mastermind" behind a nearly $10 million scheme to steal money from the online megaretailer using fake invoices has been sentenced to 16 years behind bars in federal prison.
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How it started…
Wortham, 32, worked as an operations manager at the Amazon Warehouse in Smyrna, Georgia from August 2020 to March 2022. During this time, according to court documents [PDF], she made up fake vendors, asked her unwitting subordinates to enter these non-existent entities' data into Amazon's vendor payment system, and then submitted more than $10 million in invoices. Amazon transferred some $9.4 million to pay its "vendor bills."
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/06/amazon_manager_fraud/

stapp · Jul 13, 2023

Silk Road’s second-in-command gets 20 years in prison

In a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, Roger Thomas Clark—also known by his online handles including Variety Jones, Cimon, and Plural of Mongoose—was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for his role in building and running Silk Road. Clark, a 62-year-old Canadian national, will now likely spend much of the rest of his life incarcerated for helping to pioneer the anonymous, cryptocurrency-based model for online illegal sales of drugs and other contraband that still persists on the dark web today. The sentence is the maximum Clark faced in accordance with the plea agreement he made with prosecutors.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/silk-roads-second-in-command-gets-20-years-in-prison/

stapp · Aug 4, 2023

Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist
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Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan on Thursday pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges related to the 2016 theft of some 120,000 Bitcoins from Hong Kong-based Bitfinex.
The Feds arrested Lichtenstein, 35, and Morgan, 33, in February 2022 following the US government's tracing of about 95,000 of the stolen BTC – worth about $3.6 billion at the time and $2.8 billion today – to digital wallets controlled by the married couple.
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/04/couple_bitfinex_hack_guilty/

stapp · Aug 24, 2023

Two teenage members of the chaotic Lapsus$ cyber-crime gang helped compromise computer systems of Uber and Nvidia, and also blackmailed Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Games among other high-profile victims, a jury has decided.
At Southwark Crown Court in London, England, on Wednesday, Arion Kurtaj, 18, and a 17-year-old male who because of his age cannot be identified for legal reasons were found to have committed various crimes. Kurtaj was held in custody while the other was released on bail; both await sentencing.
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/24/two_teens_lapsus_jury/

ronjor · Sep 13, 2023

Co-founder of $4 billion crypto fraud scheme gets 20 years in prison, ‘Cryptoqueen’ partner remains at large

Kevin Breuninger@KevinWilliamB Published Tue, Sep 12 2023
Karl Greenwood, co-founder of the fraudulent OneCoin cryptocurrency, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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His partner, Ruja Ignatova, known as the “Cryptoqueen” on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list, remains at large.
The massive pyramid scheme amassed more than $4 billion from millions of victims worldwide, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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