Author: drkeithjones
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Washington Man Indicted As Serial Swatter – eCrimeBytes Nibble #2
A man was recently indicted as a serial swatter: According to the federal indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Ashton Connor Garcia, 20, made more than 20 “swatting” calls to…
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Founder Of Fake Prisoner Charity Sentenced For Stealing Over $12M In Tax Refunds Using Prisoner Identities
Let’s get another case posted that is tax related, since it’s tax season. In this case Qadir Shabazz (a/k/a Deangelo Moore, a/k/a Deangelo Muhammad), a founder of a fake prison charity called…
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Three FL Officers Charged, One Sentenced, For Selling Identities And Tax Fraud – eCrimeBytes Nibble #1
This is an interesting case where police officers were the criminals selling stolen identity information: In Belliard’s case, he is accused of selling State of Florida Department of Corrections Daily Intake Lists…
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Florida Sisters Net $25M In IRS Tax Fraud Scheme
It’s tax season! In that spirit, here is a case involving two sisters that filed thousands of fraudulent returns: According to a federal indictment, sisters Petra Gomez and Jakeline Lumucso submitted more…
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eCrimeBytes S 1 Ep 8: Cyberstalking Behind A Badge In Louisville, KY
This episode we look at the Louisville, KY police department where an officer’s use of a law enforcement only database to stalk his female victims opens up a whole series of departmental…
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Zeek Clustering How-To Video
I put together a Zeek clustering video over at Youtube (https://youtu.be/g-QvpYHgh1c). You can get to the slides through: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HHHF4-FNhoSuy-YPMOWka3EGvfOW7CJAFeS9VHxBg_E/edit?usp=sharing The source code is available at: https://github.com/corelight/CVE-2022-24491
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Officer Abused Law Enforcement Resources To Cyberstalk Woman
This is an interesting story: Shortly after the women left the store with their purchases, Zarbo texted the woman’s license plate to a dispatcher’s personal cellphone, the warrant stated. Zarbo asked the…
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Medical Assistant Accused Of ID Theft, Stealing $31,000
From the following news article: https://www.databreaches.net/pa-medical-assistant-charged-with-stealing-and-misusing-patient-identity-information/ An investigation by the Office of Attorney General found that Latimer used her cell phone to take photos of patient information forms and licenses while working…
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Using Zeek Signatures To Detect CVEs
I put a video together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcXjkUt3rZA) discussing a method I have used to detect CVEs using just Zeek signatures: https://docs.zeek.org/en/master/frameworks/signatures.html This method is useful when trying to detect a CVE exploit in…