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U.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities, businesses

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Dissent

Bradley Barth reports:

The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and other businesses from May 2013 through June 2014.

Filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the indictment identifies the defendants as Nigerian citizen Otuokere Sunday (aka Hulac Yun and Charles Quartz), and Americans Samantha Almodovar and Ardarari Byas, who were at one time students at the University of New Mexico and Southern Illinois University, respectively.

Read more on SC Magazine.

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