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Spanish law enforcement agencies on Wednesday arrested 16 individuals belonging to a criminal network in connection with operating two banking trojans as part of a social engineering campaign targeting financial institutions in Europe. The arrests were made in Ribeira (A Coruña), Madrid, Parla and Móstoles (Madrid), Seseña (Toledo), Villafranca de los barros (Badajoz), and Aranda […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today, a Swedish card payment processor was sentenced for a 48 month jail for campaigning a $71 million fraud-lent activity through infecting computers through scare-ware and selling rogue anti-virus software. Mikael Patrick Sallnert, 37 year old citizen from Sweden was charged by the U.S. code of law. Not only the verdict was sentenced jail but also was ordered […]
When cyber criminals started to attack probably one of the most largest community or business running online i.e. Facebook. A cat mouse game began which meant some defensive measures taken by the online giant. The measures included providing awareness to the members regarding installing updated anti-virus programs to their PC This anti-virus was, however, developed to […]
Australia has recently faced probably one of the largest criminal activity online. A group of 16 Romanians were involved in this massive theft. The theft was done by the stole of the information of some 500,000 Australians, who has bought goods from 100 different business through their credit cards. It is confirmed that at least 30,000 credit cards were […]
UAE’s President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has enforced amendment in the Federal Legal Decree no. 5, which combats the cyber crimes. This amendment was made Federal Legal Decree no.2 furnished in 2006. This new decree states the privacy of all the matter published online that involves Bank account number, credit card numbers and […]
Chinese law enforcement agencies have started a crack down on cyber crime gangs by storming over 700 cyber criminal bases and arresting nearly 9,000 alleged cyber criminals. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced in a statement that the police have cracked over 4400 criminal cases, arrested over 8900 suspected cyber thugs for illegal activities […]
Police have arrested 7 alleged hackers of RedHack hacking group for hacking Turkish Police website. While RedHack said on their twitter account, “The arrested people are not our members and from now we will attack with more power”. On 10th of March 2012 RedHack decided to publish PoliceLeak online. All 7 people were arrest in an […]