FBI swoops on scareware distributors
The US Department of Justice and the FBI, along with international law enforcement partners, announced the indictment of two individuals from Latvia and the seizure of more …
25 percent of US hackers are FBI informants
Anyone who has read Kingpin won’t be much surprised by the estimate recently made by Eric Corley, publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, who said that some 25 percent …
FBI affiliate organization hacked, user database leaked
Only a day after they leaked the details of over one million user accounts and various databases of Sony Pictures and some of its regional sites, LulzSec announced a …
Malware campaign impersonates FBI
A new email malware campaign claims to come from the FBI and deliver a warning that they have been monitoring your Internet activities. Apparently they have logged your IP …
Millions stolen from U.S. businesses wired to Chinese companies
Small-to-medium sized businesses and public institutions are being targeted by fraudsters that compromise corporate banking credentials and transfer corporate funds to Chinese …
FBI decimates Coreflood botnet, hints at unprecedented actions
Some two weeks have passed since the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have been granted by the federal court the permission to substitute the C&C servers of the …
U.S. authorities hijack botnet by substituting C&C servers
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have been granted by the federal court the permission to substitute the C&C servers of the massive Coreflood botnet with …
FBI asks public to break a code, help solve a murder
An interesting request for help has been made public yesterday by the FBI: “Cryptanalists, help solve an open murder case”. The murder happened back in 1999. …
EFF exposes extensive FBI violations
In 2009, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a suit against a number of federal agencies that deal with intelligence gathering, requesting that they release documents and …
Man tries to work for CIA in order to spy for China
Glenn Duffie Shriver from Michigan was sentenced to 48 months in prison for conspiring to provide national defense information to intelligence officers of the People’s …
FBI put backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC stack?
Some serious allegations have been raised yesterday as Theo de Raadt, founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, has made public a private e-mail he received from …
Two FBI fugitives wanted on federal cyber crime charges captured
On November 3, 2010, Dorin Codreanu and Lilian Adam were arrested in Portage, Wisconsin by FBI agents. Codreanu and Adam have been fugitives since September 30 when FBI agents …
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