Jeff Patterson reports: Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has successfully detained three individuals who attempted to sell stolen information from Cyprus-based brokerage. Iliescu Stefan Virgil, Roşoiu Darie Leone, and [redacted], had succeeded in obtaining sensitive data from the brokerage group, which it intended to sell for upwards of €80k. All three…
Category: Financial Sector
Russian-Born Cybercriminal Sentenced to Over Nine Years in Prison
A nearly decade-long member of several elite Russian-speaking cybercrime forums was sentenced yesterday to 110 months in prison for running a sophisticated scheme to steal and traffic sensitive personal and financial information in the online criminal underground. Alexander Tverdokhlebov, 29, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty on March 31 to wire fraud. Accordingly to court documents,…
KR: Fourth largest Bitcoin exchange, Bithumb, hacked for billions of Won
Luke Parker reports: The largest bitcoin and ether exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb, was recently hacked. Monetary losses from compromised accounts have started to surface, and are quickly reaching into the billions of won. […] Hackers succeeded in grabbing the personal information of 31,800 Bithumb website users, including their names, mobile phone numbers…
KR: Financial firms on guard for cyberattack threats
Yonhap News Agency reports: Banks and other financial institutions in South Korea have been on guard over threats of cyberattacks by alleged financial blackmailers, according to the banks and financial institutions on Tuesday. No damage has been reported so far, but about 20 banks, brokerages and the Korea Exchange received threats by hacking groups about…
JP: Bank of Saga client data allegedly stolen, handed to suspected criminals
Kyodo News reports: The personal information of 169 customers who each have over ¥100 million deposited in the Bank of Saga was likely stolen by a former employee and handed to a group of suspected criminals, bank officials said Monday. The former employee, Atsushi Yoshida, 42, is on trial over a separate theft but was…
Oops. Tata dev accidentally leaked banks’ code on public GitHub repo
Iain Thomson reports: Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Service uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions’ source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT expert has claimed. Jason Coulls, CTO of food safety testing company Tellspec and a former banking software developer, said he stumbled upon the collection of…