Here are some monikers that old-timers may remember even though it’s been a few years since this site has reported on them: UGNazi, JoshTheGod, and CosmoTheGod. Read Brian Kreb’s report, Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi, to find out more about what has happened over the past years and allegations that some…
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Indiana Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracies Involving Cyber Intrusion and $37 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
SIOUX FALLS – United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that Evan Frederick Light, age 21, of Lebanon, Indiana, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica Duffy on September 30, 2024, and pleaded guilty to an Indictment that charged him with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Conspiracy to Launder Monetary Instruments. The maximum penalty for each…
Did LockBit really delete your data if you paid them? Nope, and even the affiliates didn’t know that?!
No matter how many times law enforcement tried to caution people not to believe promises by criminals that they would delete stolen data if only you paid them, some victims still paid or will pay. Today, the NCA drove their point home more forcefully: As you know, we were able to fully compromise LockBit’s platform…
LockBit affiliate ‘Beverley’ is Evil Corp’s Aleksandr Ryzhenkov
As posted by Operation Cronos today: Aleksandr Ryzhenkov DOB 26/05/1993 has been unmasked by the NCA as the specific member of Evil Corp who is a LockBit affiliate. Ryzhenkov used the affiliate name Beverley, made over 60 LockBit ransomware builds and sought to extort at least $100 million from victims in ransom demands. Ryzhenkov additionally…
Russian National Indicted for Series of Ransomware Attacks
Indictment Unsealed Charging Aleksandr Ryzhenkov with Attacks Against Multiple Victims in the United States The Justice Department today unsealed an indictment charging Russian national Aleksandr Viktorovich Ryzhenkov (Александр Викторович Рыженков) with using the BitPaymer ransomware variant to attack numerous victims in Texas and throughout the United States and hold their sensitive data for ransom. According to the indictment,…
Former Epsilon Senior Executive and Sales Manager Both Sentenced for Selling Data on Millions of U.S. Consumers to Fraudsters
Here is yet another case that reminds us of the insider threat. In this case, the defendants misused Epsilon’s algorithms to predict and sell lists of consumers most likely to respond to fraudster’s schemes’ mailings. Epsilon settled its criminal liability via a deferred prosecution agreement to pay $150 million in penalties and victim compensation and…