A massive international hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme served as a backdrop for an FBI investigation that led to the capture of a Pakistani citizen who played a major role in scamming U.S. companies out of millions of dollars in fees. From November 2008 to December 2012, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani laundered more than $19.6 million…
Category: Business Sector
Agra police cracks international phishing case in record two days, recovers Rs 28 lakh
Ankit Misra posts: In a major international anti-cybercrime crackdown, the Agra police has recovered Rs 28 lakh from England-based hackers, an amount they looted by phishing a footwear exporter from the city. Working in collaboration with the British police, the Agra police achieved this breakthrough in a record two days’ time. Talking to India Today,…
He left the company, but didn’t go away. Now, he’s going away for seven years.
David J. Neal reports on the sentencing of Jonathan Eubanks: A former Davie resident got seven years in federal prison for bedeviling Navarro Security Group with computer attacks after he resigned from the company. Attacks such as rerouting visitors to the company website to another security firms site. Or, deleting all the files on a company…
The AA Exposed Emails, Credit Card Data, and Didn’t Inform Customers
Joseph Cox reports: Last week rumours of a potentially serious data breach at UK car insurance company the AA circulated in the security research community. In response, the AA’s customer support Twitter account downplayed those fears, and told users that their data remained secure. However, an exposed server contained sensitive information on over 100,000 AA…
Former Dentons associate accused in extortion plot involving threat to leak documents to legal blog
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A former Dentons litigation associate in Los Angeles has been charged with extortion for allegedly threatening to leak sensitive law firm documents to the blog Above the Law unless his demands were met. Former associate Michael Potere, 32, is accused of demanding that the law firm pay him $210,000 and give…
Trump Hotels notifies some guests of payment card breach that began in 2016
Trump Hotels is sending out data breach notification letters to hotel guests after a service provider notified them of a breach that began in August 2016 but was only detected this year. In their letter, they explain: We are writing to you because of an incident involving unauthorized access to guest information associated with your…