Showing posts with label Hacking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hacking. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Nauman Ashraf
The Dubai Police have arrested a cyber crime gang who were able to transfer more than Dh7 million from exchange companies in Dubai, a senior official from Dubai Police said, according to GulfNews
After several days of investigation the Dubai smartly tracked the gang and arrested them. The step from Dubai police has been appreciated by the world of internet. Especially, at the time when cyber crime is at it’s boom. The news for the arrest was announced by commander in chief from the Dubai police (Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina), he also told about the gang’s belonging in these words:
According to the commander in chief, the recruited hackers were involved in hacking major company’s accounts and they transferred the money in them into their own accounts. Though, Dubai was successful in seizing all the money transferred illegally.
The procedure for this fraudulent activity was in a way that at first the gang hacked the targeted company’s email address and through it change all the details for the transactions. The details were changed to the criminal own accounts.
There were four major suspects in case: S.K, K.S, D.S and G.D.
K.S was involved in receiving in all the money that was received through fraudulent activity. He received 7 seven percent of the total money gained by the gang. S.K share in the total money was 3 percent, his role in this activity was to provide the account details of the bank account in which all the stolen was needed to be transferred, both of these suspects were from Asian region.
Through S.K police came to know about the third suspect D.S who was from African region. D.S was a middle man who transferred the messages between the gang in Africa and second suspect. According to him, the gang was involved in fraudulent of activity of Dh 4.6 billion. Furthermore, through him police got hold off the last suspect i.e. G.D. But, we again laud the efforts of Dubai police who did a fantastic job by arresting the gang.
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Gang arrested for hacking Dubai Exchange companies accounts
The Dubai Police have arrested a cyber crime gang who were able to transfer more than Dh7 million from exchange companies in Dubai, a senior official from Dubai Police said, according to GulfNews
After several days of investigation the Dubai smartly tracked the gang and arrested them. The step from Dubai police has been appreciated by the world of internet. Especially, at the time when cyber crime is at it’s boom. The news for the arrest was announced by commander in chief from the Dubai police (Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina), he also told about the gang’s belonging in these words:
“The personnel of the department had arrested a multi-national gang of Asians and Africans who allegedly recruit hackers to work for them against payment of cash,”
According to the commander in chief, the recruited hackers were involved in hacking major company’s accounts and they transferred the money in them into their own accounts. Though, Dubai was successful in seizing all the money transferred illegally.
“The department had managed to seize cheques worth nearly Dh6 billion used to defraud others, and resulted in transferring of US$2 million to the bank account of a company that belong(ed) to the suspects,” Al Mazeina said.
The procedure for this fraudulent activity was in a way that at first the gang hacked the targeted company’s email address and through it change all the details for the transactions. The details were changed to the criminal own accounts.
There were four major suspects in case: S.K, K.S, D.S and G.D.
K.S was involved in receiving in all the money that was received through fraudulent activity. He received 7 seven percent of the total money gained by the gang. S.K share in the total money was 3 percent, his role in this activity was to provide the account details of the bank account in which all the stolen was needed to be transferred, both of these suspects were from Asian region.
Through S.K police came to know about the third suspect D.S who was from African region. D.S was a middle man who transferred the messages between the gang in Africa and second suspect. According to him, the gang was involved in fraudulent of activity of Dh 4.6 billion. Furthermore, through him police got hold off the last suspect i.e. G.D. But, we again laud the efforts of Dubai police who did a fantastic job by arresting the gang.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Nauman Ashraf
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EDUCAUSE Hacked, Users advised to Change Password
EDUCAUSE – a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of IT – published an advisory on Tuesday urging users to immediately change their passwords because hackers had breached one of the organization’s servers.
The cyber criminals might have gained access to information such as names, titles, email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, according to EDUCAUSE.
EDUCAUSE breach might have also compromised the hashed passwords of .edu domain holders. This is why administrators are also advised to change the domain passwords.
EDUCAUSE has notified all affected members. In the meantime, the association has deactivated all passwords.
Fortunately, InCommon users are not affected. Another piece of good news is that there’s no evidence to suggest that sensitive personal or financial information has been accessed by the hackers.
Federal law enforcement, investigators and security experts have been called in and additional security measures are being implemented to prevent future incidents.
The cyber criminals might have gained access to information such as names, titles, email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, according to EDUCAUSE.
EDUCAUSE has notified all affected members. In the meantime, the association has deactivated all passwords.
Fortunately, InCommon users are not affected. Another piece of good news is that there’s no evidence to suggest that sensitive personal or financial information has been accessed by the hackers.
Federal law enforcement, investigators and security experts have been called in and additional security measures are being implemented to prevent future incidents.
Monday, January 7, 2013
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Nauman Ashraf
Vladimir Zdorovenin and his son, Kirill Zdorovenin, are accused of conspiring to steal the personal details, including credit card information, of several US citizens between 2004 and 2005, while residing in Russia, according to the US Department of Justice.
He used to install keyloggers on the computers of his victims. The pieces of malware allowed him to gain access to sensitive data which he used to make illegal purchases from various online businesses.
The fraudsters also transferred, or attempted to transfer, hundreds of thousands of dollars from their victims’ accounts to their own accounts, which they had set up in Russia and Latvia.
They also made a profit by hacking into online brokerage accounts. The cybercriminals bought and sold thousands of shares in an effort to manipulate stock prices.
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Old Russian hacker sentenced by US Court for committing Cyber Crime
Vladimir Zdorovenin, 55 years old Russian hacker, sentenced to three years in prison by Manhattan federal court for stealing credit cards of US citizens & committing bank frauds.
He used to install keyloggers on the computers of his victims. The pieces of malware allowed him to gain access to sensitive data which he used to make illegal purchases from various online businesses.
The fraudsters also transferred, or attempted to transfer, hundreds of thousands of dollars from their victims’ accounts to their own accounts, which they had set up in Russia and Latvia.
They also made a profit by hacking into online brokerage accounts. The cybercriminals bought and sold thousands of shares in an effort to manipulate stock prices.
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