Month: June 2023
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A MA Father And Sons’ Lottery Scheme – eCrimeBytes Nibble #42
This case is an interesting one. A father (Ali Jaafar) and his sons (Yousef Jaafar & Mohamed Jaafar) are accused of buying lottery winnings at a discount to make money but not…
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NY Man Charged With Hacking Children’s Snapchat Nudes And Then Extorting Them – eCrimeBytes Nibble #41
This case is really messed up. Check out what Louis Fratangelo Jr. is accused of: On April 28, 2023, State Police, Manlius Police, and the FBI executed a search warrant in the…
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Woman Hires Hitman On Dark Web – eCrimeBytes Nibble #40
What is it with people trying to hire hitman via the dark web? In this case a woman in the UK decided she was done with her former significant other. It landed…
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Russian Charged With Ransomware Attacks – eCrimeBytes Nibble #39
Ten years now and ransomware is still going strong. The United States charged a Russian named Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (aka Wazawaka, aka m1x, aka Boriselcin, aka Uhodiransomwar) with three ransomware attacks. The…
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Skynet Dark Web Market Founder Pleads Guilty – eCrimeBytes Nibble #38
This is not the Skynet you know from The Terminator. This Skynet was a dark web forum used by those looking to purchase or sell stolen credit card information. According to the…
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AI Makes Child Porn Too – eCrimeBytes Nibble #37
With every technological advancement someone will eventually come along and exploit it. Well, those using AI have been caught deepfaking child porn. At first I thought this was a case of creating…
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Ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan Receives Probation For Cover Up – eCrimeBytes Nibble #36
Sit back and listen to the story of Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former Chief Security Officer (CSO) and his cover up of a data breach landing him… probation? This was a highly publicized…
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One Of Florida’s Biggest Ponzi Schemes – eCrimeBytes Nibble #35
Michael DaCorta was behind a FL Ponzi scheme tricking 700 victims into giving him $80 million dollars to invest. It looks like this was a traditional Ponzi scheme where earlier “investors” in…