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Washington Man Indicted As Serial Swatter – eCrimeBytes Nibble #2
A man was recently indicted as a serial swatter: According to the federal indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Ashton Connor Garcia, 20, made more than 20 “swatting” calls to law enforcement between June and September 2022. … Garcia targeted victims in California, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,…
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Founder Of Fake Prisoner Charity Sentenced For Stealing Over $12M In Tax Refunds Using Prisoner Identities
Let’s get another case posted that is tax related, since it’s tax season. In this case Qadir Shabazz (a/k/a Deangelo Moore, a/k/a Deangelo Muhammad), a founder of a fake prison charity called Indigent Inmate, collected thousands of prisoner identities and filed fraudulent tax returns with the stolen info: In 2009,…
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Three FL Officers Charged, One Sentenced, For Selling Identities And Tax Fraud – eCrimeBytes Nibble #1
This is an interesting case where police officers were the criminals selling stolen identity information: In Belliard’s case, he is accused of selling State of Florida Department of Corrections Daily Intake Lists that included 805 names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of inmates at the South Florida Reception…
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Florida Sisters Net $25M In IRS Tax Fraud Scheme
It’s tax season! In that spirit, here is a case involving two sisters that filed thousands of fraudulent returns: According to a federal indictment, sisters Petra Gomez and Jakeline Lumucso submitted more than 16,000 false tax returns using the personal information of previous clients from 2012 to 2016. … To…
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eCrimeBytes S 1 Ep 8: Cyberstalking Behind A Badge In Louisville, KY
This episode we look at the Louisville, KY police department where an officer’s use of a law enforcement only database to stalk his female victims opens up a whole series of departmental investigations that ultimately leads to “Slushygate”. Yeah, we said “Slushygate”. You won’t want to miss this! Sit back…
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Zeek Clustering How-To Video
I put together a Zeek clustering video over at Youtube (https://youtu.be/g-QvpYHgh1c). You can get to the slides through: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HHHF4-FNhoSuy-YPMOWka3EGvfOW7CJAFeS9VHxBg_E/edit?usp=sharing The source code is available at: https://github.com/corelight/CVE-2022-24491
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Officer Abused Law Enforcement Resources To Cyberstalk Woman
This is an interesting story: Shortly after the women left the store with their purchases, Zarbo texted the woman’s license plate to a dispatcher’s personal cellphone, the warrant stated. Zarbo asked the dispatcher to “run it” through the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Teleprocessing (COLLECT) System, the warrant stated. The system…
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Medical Assistant Accused Of ID Theft, Stealing $31,000
From the following news article: https://www.databreaches.net/pa-medical-assistant-charged-with-stealing-and-misusing-patient-identity-information/ An investigation by the Office of Attorney General found that Latimer used her cell phone to take photos of patient information forms and licenses while working at Axia Women’s Health in Montgomery County. She then used this information to open credit cards and spend…
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Using Zeek Signatures To Detect CVEs
I put a video together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcXjkUt3rZA) discussing a method I have used to detect CVEs using just Zeek signatures: https://docs.zeek.org/en/master/frameworks/signatures.html This method is useful when trying to detect a CVE exploit in a protocol that is not fully parsed by Zeek. In this video we discuss a CVE for portmapper,…