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Chirag Patel Gets 51 Months For Stolen Credit Cards And Reward Points Fraud – eCrimeBytes Nibble #45
I’ve seen a lot of credit card theft in network breach cases, but theft of reward points to book free stays and gift certificates is a new one to me. On numerous occasions between August 2017 and July 2020, Patel hacked into the Phoenix-based computers of an international hospitality company.…
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Rapper’s Cannabis Company Was Actually A Ponzi Scheme – eCrimeBytes Nibble #44
This might be another traditional Ponzi scheme when it comes to investors paying back investors, but not when it comes to the rapper name “BigRigBaby”! The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a civil complaint filed in California federal court that WeedGenics and its owners, Rolf Max Hirschmann and Patrick…
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Detecting Amadey Malware With Zeek – Zeek Roulette #2
For my Zeek Roulette #2 I picked a recently submitted sample off of ANY.Run that ended up being Amadey: https://app.any.run/tasks/31ba58da-30d1-4a08-940d-2412fc629221/ You can download the PCAP from the link above if you navigate to the “PCAP” button in the upper right corner of the lower network connections pane. If you want…
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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 named Ashley Liles decided to change the ransom note’s payment address to an address he controlled. Liles also…
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eCrimeBytes S 1 Ep 16: The Ubiquiti Insider
Sit back and listen to how a former security engineer at Ubiquiti costed their shareholders $4 billion dollars when he stole their data and posted online after they failed to pay his ransom. There’s a lot to unpack in that, we know. Join us on our episode to hear more…
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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 properly reporting the income to the IRS. This scheme allowed for the real winner to stay anonymous so…
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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 Town of Van Buren relating to the reports of sexual exploitation. The investigation was initiated after multiple middle…
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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 her seven and a half years in prison. I bet you didn’t expect our leading lady to be…
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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 DoJ cited the following attacks in their indictment: On or about June 25, 2020, Matveev and his LockBit…