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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…
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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 Justice Department, Michael D. Mihalo Jr. was the founder of Skynet and “personally possessed, sent, and received 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 the material from scratch, but it’s much worse than that. Steven Larouche of Canada use AI technology to…
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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 case where a corporate executive (Joe Sullivan) used his powers to cover up a data breach at Uber.…