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Gouda Hacker: Charges Tie to Ransomware Hit Affecting Cheese

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May

2023

How many ransomware-wielding hackers can claim among their bona fides to have caused a national cheese shortage, not least in the Gouda-loving Netherlands? Enter Mikhail Matveev, 31, the Russian national whom prosecutors accused of wielding not one but three strains of ransomware. Two federal indictments unsealed this month accuse Matveev – aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, […]

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iSpoof Admin Gets Up to 13 Years in 115M Euro Vishing Fraud

22

May

2023

The mastermind behind a criminal website that sold tools for scammers who defrauded victims globally of more than 115 million euros received a 13-year, four-month prison sentence in the United Kingdom just months after law enforcement seized the site. Tejay Fletcher, 35, ran iSpoof, which made impersonating the telephone numbers of banks and government agencies […]

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Hackers Intercept USPS Workers’ Paychecks in Direct Deposit Scam

22

May

2023

More than 450 workers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) lost more than $1 million in a direct deposit scam that left postal workers without pay, angry at the USPS for not heeding warnings of the scheme, and the agency scrambling to figure out exactly what happened. What happened, according to a statement by […]

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Gouda Hacker: Charges Tie to Ransomware Hit Affecting Cheese

iSpoof Admin Gets Up to 13 Years in 115M Euro Vishing Fraud

Hackers Intercept USPS Workers’ Paychecks in Direct Deposit Scam

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