Pro-Pakistan hacker Afzal Faizal who breached the firewalls of more than a thousand Indian websites in the last two years has come under the scanner of Indian security agencies, five days after he claimed to have got access to the e-payment system of a nationalized bank. Intel officials said earlier, Faizal restricted his hacking efforts…
Category: Financial Sector
Major Cyber-Criminal Extradited From Czech Republic to Face Charges in Atlanta
ATLANTA – Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a/k/a Vinchenco, a/k/a Vinch, a/k/a M.U.R.D.E.R.E.R., 31, of Nikolaev, Ukraine, was arraigned today before Catherine M. Salinas, United States Magistrate Judge, on federal charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud. Levitskyy was indicted by a federal grand jury on October…
FBI: ‘IcyEagle’ hacker stole bank passwords, sold them on AlphaBay
Ryan Kruger reports: He lived in a world of anonymity. Going by the screen name “IcyEagle” he hid in the deep web. But now Aaron Glende has been exposed as an alleged hacker. The Winona, Minn. man was arrested by Atlanta-based FBI agents, charged with bank fraud and identity theft. According to a federal indictment…
Citibank IT guy deliberately wiped routers, shut down 90% of firm’s networks across America
Graham Cluley writes: It was just after 6pm on December 23, 2013, and Lennon Ray Brown, a computer engineer at the Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas, was out for revenge. Earlier in the day, Brown – who was responsible for the bank’s IT systems – had attended a work performance review with his supervisor….
Hongkonger who launched over 6,000 web attacks during Occupy movement gets 15 months probation
Jasmine Siu reports: A Chinese University undergraduate who launched more than 6,000 attacks on Shanghai Commercial Bank’s website in 16 seconds in response to hacker group Anonymous Asia’s appeals during the Occupy protests in 2014 was sentenced to a 15-month probation order. Fanling Court also on Monday confiscated a Mac computer belonging to Chu Tsun-wai, 20, following…
Loan Company Employee Sentenced for Stolen Identity Tax Fraud
Rashad Snellreports: A Montgomery County resident was sentenced to 48 months in prison for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama, and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Wendy Huff, 32, admitted that between…