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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 his foreign currency trading company named Oasis International Group were paid returns from later “investors”. Meanwhile, OIG was…
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eCrimeBytes S 1 Ep 14: A Doctor Sells Out
Between 2014-2016 there were multiple doctors, pharmaceutical sales reps, firefighters, police officers, and family members involved in a multi million health care fraud organized crime ring. How was this group able to make money from prescribing fraudulent prescriptions to fake patients? You’ll have to listen to find out! Sit back…
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YouTuber Intentionally Crashes Plane For The Likes – eCrimeBytes Nibble #34
On Nov 24, 2021 Trevor Jacob took off from an airport in California. This was no ordinary flight as Jacob claimed to have the ashes of a friend with him. Oddly, his plane had many cameras mounted inside and outside for the trip. Why? Well along the way he pretended…
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Ex-Ubiquiti Engineer Sentenced To 6 Years For Data Theft And Extortion – eCrimeBytes Nibble #33
An ex-Ubiquiti engineer behind their massive 2020 data theft was sentenced to six years. Nickolas Sharp purchased and used SurfShark VPN to hide his IP address as he downloaded their GitHub repositories from home. He also hid his IP address when he attempted to cover his tracks by switching their…
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eCrimeBytes S 1 Ep 13: Credit Fixers For Hire
From late 2009 through October 2012 credit repair companies were everywhere. While most credit repair companies played by the rules, some did not. This week, we will give you a story of electronic crimes that bring two credit repair businesses, two Miami-Dade police officers, and others to justice for fraudulently…
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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 million. Other victims thought the invoices looked suspicious and did not pay. In total, they sent almost $13…
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njRAT/Bladabindi Zeek Detector Update – Zeek Roulette #1 Part 2
This is an update to: Detecting njRAT/Bladabindi Malware With Zeek – Zeek Roulette #1 I have been running this detector on a live network for a while and I’ve seen 2 (rare) categories of false positives we can easily eliminate by improving on the code just a little bit. The…
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Silk Road Dark Web Thief Sentenced, Also Forced To Forfeit $3.4 Billion – eCrimeBytes Nibble #30
You may have heard of the Silk Road, an online dark web forum to purchase drugs and other illegal items or services. You may not have known that an individual named James Zhong managed to steal over $3.4 billion from the Silk Road. I pulled the court documents (links below),…
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Man Sentenced For Stealing 712 Bitcoin ($5m) Law Enforcement Seized From His Brother! – eCrimeBytes Nibble #29
Police seize man’s (Larry Harmon) Bitcoin for running a Bitcoin mixer service called Helix, but man’s brother (Gary Harmon) recreates the Bitcoins to steal them back! This all stems from the Larry running a Bitcoin mixer service, which is a service people can use to more anonymously buy goods from…