Category: Possible Episode
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UK Man Blackmails Employer During Ransomware Attack – eCrimeBytes Nibble #43
February 2018 Oxford Biomedica was victim of a typical ransomware attack. Most insiders would be looking for a new job. One person used it as an opportunity! An insider at Oxford Biomedica…
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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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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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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…
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Georgia Man Sentenced For Cyber Fraud Theft Of Over $2 Million, His Brother Is Still At Large – eCrimeBytes Nibble #31
In this case, Christian Akhatsegbe worked with others to defraud companies through fake invoices sent via stolen corporate credentials. Apparently the invoices looked real enough for one victim to pay nearly $1…
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Sentencing In The 2020 Sturgis Sex Crime Sting – eCrimeBytes Nibble #28
In 2020 there were 8 arrests in a Sturgis sex crime sting. Cody Wayne Hopkins was one of those arrests. According to HSI, Hopkins started chatting with a 14 year old girl,…
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Annapolis Maryland Man Sentenced To Four Months For Threatening Ted Cruz – eCrimeBytes Nibble #24
UPDATE: It’s 4 MONTHS, not YEARS. I am not sure how my brain autocorrected to years. It must’ve been during the time I was laughing at “chuckle-fuck”. My apologies. Nope, the Annapolis…
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“Tired” Employee Allegedly Sabotaged His Employer’s Business Over Two Weeks Of Pay – eCrimeBytes Nibble #23
I just couldn’t resist the obvious joke in the title when I found out his employer’s business was involved in tires and tire related accessories. There is not a lot out there…