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[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces
Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
Investors are shaken after the co-founder of a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency protocol was accused of being a serial scammer with a record of conviction and deportation, and the co-founder of a fraudulent Canadian exchange that imploded.
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[Link] Ex-Labor staffer accused of child sex offences claims to have 'no interest in children'
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Benjamin John Waters pleaded guilty to accessing and transmitting child abuse material using a carriage service in January 2021, as well as two counts of possessing child exploitation material in March 2021, including images and videos of children under the age of 14.
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[Link] Nvidia RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards Stolen in Truck Heist
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Someone has stolen a shipment of GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards from a truck in Southern California. According to a post on the EVGA forums, someone lifted the graphics cards on October 29 as they were en-route to a distribution center.
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came from PayPal’s fraud prevention system. Someone had tried to use my PayPal account to spend $58.82, according to the automated voice on the line. PayPal needed to verify my identity to block the transfer.
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[Link] Ransomware Gang Says the Real Ransomware Gang Is the Federal Government
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Friday, a competing ransomware gang that calls itself Conti released a statement titled “ReviLives,” in support of the REvil gang, which was the target of the international operation.
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[Link] Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nude Photos From Hundreds of iCloud Accounts
Read: 18/10/2021 www.vice.com
Hao Kuo Chi, 40, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and computer fraud after he hacked into hundreds of iCloud accounts and stole nude photos, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice.
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[Link] Organised crime going undetected, says AFP, as Australian hits US ‘most wanted’ list
Read: 17/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
A top security official has warned that 90 per cent of Australia’s organised crime groups are operating with relative impunity, as police say employees of the Australian arm of Dubai’s government air services company have been used to infiltrate Sydney airport and smuggle drugs.
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[Link] Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm's 'confidential' meeting minutes from Google Search
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theregister.com
A man who viewed documents online for a controversial London property development and shared them on social media was raided by police after developers claimed there had been a break-in to their systems.
[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.
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[Link] Silk Road member Peter Nash avoids further US prison time
Read: 25/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
New York: An Australian man who moderated the discussion forums on the underground drug website Silk Road was sentenced to time served on Tuesday after already being in custody for 17 months.
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[Link] Suspected adviser to creator of black market Silk Road arrested in Thailand
Read: 24/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
New York: A Canadian man has been arrested in Thailand for his alleged role as a senior adviser to the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold, US prosecutors announced on Friday.
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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia
Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.
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[Link] Pressure on Queensland police to sack officer who leaked address of domestic violence victim
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Queensland police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, is “carefully considering” whether to take further disciplinary action against an officer who leaked the address of a domestic violence victim.
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[Link] Malware for Macs Is Getting Bigger, More Dangerous, and It’s Dirt Cheap
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools — the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer.
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[Link] Most wanted: The top 5 online crime gangs running ransomware
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists.
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[Link] We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals
Read: 15/7/2021 www.vice.com
'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → The sleek, black phone seems perfectly normal.
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[Link] Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole
Read: 12/7/2021 www.theregister.com
A barristers' chambers hit by a ransomware attack has responded by getting a court order demanding the criminals do not share stolen data.
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[Link] Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
Read: 24/1/2021 arstechnica.com
Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company.