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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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New attack vectors leading to digital pickpocketing of digital wallets

Oct

2011

AVG’s latest Q3 2011 Community Powered Threat Report has highlighted the prevalence of a new breed of cybercrime attacks being launched against users’ ‘digital wallets’ to target the new credit currencies in widespread usage on the Internet. As individual users and businesses alike now start to trade in the ‘currency of the web’, cyber criminals […]

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Malware isn’t only malware anymore. our participation at VB2011

Oct

2011

In the beginning there were only malware and machines to be infected, with no money in the middle – only a will to get “fame” by coding. A few years ago this situation changed drastically and today the cybercrime ecosystem is much more complicated, including as much as 7 key elements. This starts with the […]

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

New attack vectors leading to digital pickpocketing of digital wallets

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