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Busted! Ukrainian cybercrime duo who ripped off $4.5 million sent to prison in UK

Nov

2011

The Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) of London’s Metropolitan Police Service has announced the sentencing of two Ukrainian cybercrooks. Yuriy Konovalenko, 29, and Yevhen Kulibaba, 33, were sent down for just short of five years each. According to the PCeU, the pair were the lynchpins in a syndicate which got its hands on at least […]

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London’s Metropolitan police re-invest in fighting cybercrime

Aug

2011

UK broadsheet The Guardian reported recently that London’s Metropolitan Police Service, colloquially known as The Met, has quadrupled the size of its cybercrime unit in the last two months. This should make happy reading for readers of this site. Last year, after news that funding for fighting cybercrime in the UK had been cut significantly, […]

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LulzSec hacking suspect ‘Topiary’ arrested in the Shetland Islands

Jul

2011

A 19-year old man has been arrested by British police in the Shetland Islands, under suspicion of launching hacking attacks against a number of websites. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested the man as part of an international investigation into the activities of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups. […]

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Posts Tagged ‘metropolitan police service’

Busted! Ukrainian cybercrime duo who ripped off $4.5 million sent to prison in UK

London’s Metropolitan police re-invest in fighting cybercrime

LulzSec hacking suspect ‘Topiary’ arrested in the Shetland Islands

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