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A group of twelve hackers have been arrested by the police for hacking into the computers of Santander bank branch in London after taking control of bank computers remotely. The cyber criminals were arrested by Scotland Yard, when a plan to steal millions of pounds from the bank by controlling their computers remotely was foiled. […]
Syrian Electronic Army, known as pro Bashar Ul Assad group has been labeled as a terrorist organization by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and now listed on their website in most wanted list. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially placed the SEA on an advisory list following a series of cyber […]
We have heard about increase in rate of divorces due to social networking website Facebook but witnessing a horrific crime such as setting an innocent girl on fire for accepting a friend request from another man has hit the news for the first time. In the Indian city of Allahabad, a 22-year-old female University student was […]
Someone inside the senate is not much a pro to NSA’s whistleblower Snowden as they are using the platform of Wikipedia to express their view point. The page at Wikipedia which describes all about Edward Snowden who is known to have leaked many classified files of NSA has been revised on many occasions since he […]
FreedomWeb is a renowned Irish concern which provides web hosting services for the purpose of Tor hidden services which reached via the Tor encrypted or anonymised network has been shut down. The reason behind the shutdown of the network is that the owner of this company Eric Eoin Marques has been arrested because of allegations of […]
One Ukrainian and 4 Russians have been charged by a US court for stealing more than 160 million numbers of credit cards and the court has also stated that this activity has inflicted losses which amount of hundreds of millions of dollars. Some big corporations are included in the ones that have been on the […]
The Police in Dubai have arrested an Indian national for filming and uploading a video on YouTube of a senior government official assaulting a van driver after a minor accident. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police Major-General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina said that the man was arrested as a result of a complaint lodged by the […]
Android phones have now become a source of income for the cyber criminals. The cyber criminals have began a new type of carry out a new type of cyber crime through android phones known as ransomware. It’s not a new type of crime, there have been several cases related to it in the recent past. […]
In a report submitted by the Turkish police in Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office, the famous online hackavist group RedHack has been labed as “cyber terrorist organization” for encouraging public to commit crimes against the state via twitter during Gezi Resistance. Not so long ago on July 10, 2012 I had reported on famous Turkish hackavist group REDHACK […]
A Pakistani man identified as Imran Elahi has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Brooklyn federal court for participating and supporting a multimillion-dollar ATM heists targeting debit card processors. Reuters reports that Imran admitted his role of dispersing debit card numbers to criminals who further cashed out around $9-million (€6.9-million) heist against RBS WorldPay in 2009. The effected MasterCard […]
Cyber crimes were once used to bully people online but as the time is passing, these criminals are enhancing their hacking skills. An example of these enhanced skills came from Europe where drug traffickers hacked into the computers of shipment companies in order to track large among of drug shipments. A group of international cyber […]
According to police authorities, a teenager in Karachi who was kidnapped by a fake friend on Facebook has been rescued. The kidnapped boy only aged 13 years old and was tempted by the kidnapper to meet him. The criminal gang became his online friend and arranged for a meeting in which he was abducted for […]
The official website of Liberty Reserve (), known for its services such as payment processing and transfer has been shutdown by the authorities for alleged involvement in money laundering. Liberty Reserve Owner Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk has been arrested during money laundering investigation operation in Spain, conducted by police officers from USA and Costa Rica on […]
A 12-year-old girl from Abu Dhabi, UAE calls her father and claims that she has been kidnapped, the kidnappers want iPad as a ransom. The father in shock contacted the police immediately after the girl’s call which took the case in its hands. The father tried to call the girl a number of times but found […]
Michael William Cook, 17, of Acworth, Georgia has been charged for hacking cell phones and distributing private pictures on porn sites. 9News reports that the teenager was arrested on eight counts of cruelty to children and one count of sexually exploiting children. Police has informed the media that Cool was arrested on Wednesday from his […]
Metropolitan Police Department is planning to setup cybercrime classes for investigators at a local police station to avoid any kind of wrong arrest and misunderstanding. The classes are planned to avoid unusual circumstances like last year when four innocent men were arrested for spreading virus, later it was discovered that their computers were hacked and used as […]
A Pakistani student in UK will be extradited to the US from UK over computer hacking allegations stemming from an FBI sting operation. The 24 years old student identified as Usman Ahzaz, was admitted to a university in Britain in order to get a degree in information systems and computing failed the bid to avoid extradition from Britain to the United Stated. The hacker […]
Britain and India are near to sign a contract for setting up a joint task force to tackle all kind of cyber crimes in order to secure mobile phone data and personal banking details of about millions of Britons, much of which is stored on Indian servers. IBN reports that agreement is first of its […]
Social media has now become a difficult place to survive, this came into light when one Filipino solicitor discussed a cyber crime law to one of the websites. But, before getting into it we want to warn all the people around the world to be really careful while sharing anything on social media websites as […]
Earlier I updated you regarding a successful hacking attack on Indonesian Presidential website by Jember Hacker Team. Today the Indonesian police has arrested an Internet cafe operator from the East Java district of Jember for allegedly hacking the presidential website. The 22 years old, Wildan Yani Ashari is an Indonesian citizen who works at an Internet cafe as an operator. The cafe is […]
UK authorities have fined Sony PlayStation with a fine of $400,000 on the charges of breaching passwords of several users in the year 2011. But, Sony since the induction of the fine has been facing losses/expenditures far greater than $400,000. According to them, only the insurance of their systems and staff costs $171M which has become difficult […]