Category: Social Engineering
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Boasting, Lavish Living Fraudster Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison After Talking To Media – eCrimeBytes Nibble #32
Robert De Niro in Goodfellas said that when you pull a big score you do not go buy anything big or show off your new money. J. Nicholas Bryant did not follow…
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eCrimeBytes S 1, Ep 7: Swatting Payback In Maryland
From 2017 to 2020 a group of attackers took control of several victims’ phones via SIM swapping to steal cryptocurrency and social media accounts. It looked like they were going to get…
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Two Men Charged For Breaching Federal Law Enforcement Database And Posing As Police Officers
In pursuit of victims’ personal information, Singh and Ceraolo unlawfully used a police officer’s stolen password to access a restricted database maintained by a federal law enforcement agency that contains (among other…
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Detecting A SIM Swapping Attack
It appears that the perpetrator of the SIM swap abused not only internal knowledge of T-Mobile’s systems, but also a lax password reset process at Instagram. The social network allows users to…
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eCrimeBytes S 1, Ep 5: PlugwalkJoe
Buy a hat and hold the F on. This story gets nuts. Between 2019 and 2020, a character only known as “PlugwalkJoe” went on an online crime spree. From SIM swapping, to…
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eCrimeBytes S 1, Ep 4: The Twitter Hack
July 15, 2020. Some say it was one of the biggest Twitter hacks. This day, several high profile Twitter accounts were in the hands of criminals. The criminals then used the…
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eCrimeBytes S 1, Ep 1: The Community
We will look at a case where nine young men, calling themselves “The Community”, conspired to steal millions of dollars of cryptocurrency. The Community took control of their victims’ mobile phone numbers…