cybercriminals
Palin e-mail hacker sentenced
After a number of delays, former University of Tennessee student David Kernel has finally received his sentence for compromising Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail account back …
Sextortionist hacker caught by FBI
This has not been a good week for perverts on the Internet. First one gets arrested for hacking into e-mail and Facebook accounts of his female victims and sending their …
Perverted Facebook hacker targeted women
The recent arrest of a 23-year-old California man that has allegedly hacked e-mail accounts of more than 170 women and posted sexually explicit pictures found within them to …
Alleged spam kingpin under investigation
31-year old Russian Igor Gusev is being investigated by the Russian police because they believe him to be the central figure behind the well-known spamming affiliate program …
Global e-crime gang transitions to crimeware
The world’s most prolific phishing gang has completed a transition from using conventional phishing to massively propagating stealthy password-stealing crimeware that …
Fraud losses increase by 20% in the past 12 months
Theft of information and electronic data at global companies has overtaken physical theft for the first time, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study …
A cyber criminal’s key to vulnerable systems
New, advanced evasion techniques (AET) that can pose a serious threat to existing network security systems worldwide, according to Stonesoft. These AET threats significantly …
Spammers using new URL obfuscation technique
Spammers and scammers are always on the lookout for new tricks to use to bypass URL filters and deliver the links to unsuspecting victims, and lately they have discovered that …