Les dernières actus des cybercriminels (10 mai 2024)

Voici les actualités principales de la semaine passée concernant le cybercrime.

Vous retrouvez ci-dessous les liens directs vers les articles les plus intéressants. Pour information, cette veille est préparée avec un vrai cerveau non artificiel, alors bonne lecture et merci de soutenir le Décodeur !

Les actus sélectionnées cette semaine

Operation PANDORA shuts down 12 phone fraud call centres | Europol
Operation PANDORA started with a bank teller in Freiburg, Germany. When in December 2023 a customer asked to withdraw over EUR 100 000 in cash, the bank teller grew suspicious and quickly learned the customer had fallen victim to a ‘fake police officer scam’.

Police shuts down 12 fraud call centres, arrests 21 suspects
Law enforcement shut down 12 phone fraud call centers in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Lebanon, behind thousands of scam calls daily.

NSW Police Make Arrest in Clubs NSW Data Breach – Australian Cyber Security Magazine
Cybercrime Squad detectives from NSW Police have charged a man with blackmail after investigating a data breach, alleging he threatened to share the personal details of over one million people.

Ex-NSA employee sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia
A former U.S. NSA employee has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to sell classified documents to Russia.

CEO who sold fake Cisco devices to US military gets 6 years in prison
Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to government, health, education, and military organizations worldwide.

Hacker Sentenced After Years of Extorting Psychotherapy Patients
Two years after a warrant went out for his arrest, Aleksanteri Kivimäki finally has been found guilty of thousands of counts of aggravated attempted blackmail, among other charges.

REvil Affiliate Off to Jail for Ransomware Scheme
Charges against the ransomware gang member included damage to computers, conspiracy to commit fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Cybersecurity consultant arrested after allegedly extorting IT firm
A former cybersecurity consultant was arrested for allegedly attempting to extort a publicly traded IT company by threatening to disclose confidential and proprietary data unless they paid him $1,500,000.

REvil hacker behind Kaseya ransomware attack gets 13 years in prison
Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for his involvement in the REvil ransomware operation.

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