Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, the owner of Liberty Reserve, has been arrested in Spain for money laundering.This was revealed by a joint investigation by the Spanish and US police agencies.
Raids were conducted at his home and office's. The investigation had been on since 2011. Also apparently Budobsky's business in Costa Rica was financed by child pornography websites and drug trafficking.
Libirty Reserve's main domain libertyreserve.com is not showing the original site, its pointing to a sinkhole .
Raids were conducted at his home and office's. The investigation had been on since 2011. Also apparently Budobsky's business in Costa Rica was financed by child pornography websites and drug trafficking.
Libirty Reserve's main domain libertyreserve.com is not showing the original site, its pointing to a sinkhole .
As you can see the domain was transferred on May 24,2013 to point to shadowserver.org's name server - a server used by the US Governments to seize a website that has did an online fraud.
One of the EHN's reader, Jonathan Capistrano who contacted LR about the status of peoples funds was told that they will not be closing down but are taking a break and that LR will be back "new and better" and finally said that funds will stay there , with no reduction or increase in value.
I will update if I get more information.
The TOI report says money has been transferred to 13 different bank accounts in Chennai, Coimbatore,Tirunelveli, Bangalore,Hyderabad and other places.
The bank blocked those accounts but the gang have already managed to withdraw some funds.
The police has arrested three members of the crew who came to withdraw the money in Coimbatore and Hyderabad.
It appears the Company fell victim when the company officials opened the malware attached mail sent by the gang. The gang then probably harvested the bank login credentials using the malware.
Earlier this year, cyber criminals stole Rs 1 crore in Mulund from the current account of a cosmetics company.
An unknown hackers with "Unlimited Hack Team(UHT)" defacement signature recently attacked Thai PM website and posted insulting message about the Prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Narongrit Suksarn, aka Window 98se, 29, from Nakhon Si Thammarat, suspected hacker who met the police last week insisted he didn't hack into the PM's site, nor post insulting messages on it. But he admitted he was one of the member of the Unlimited Hack Team.
The Police said they have gathered information and are confident Narongrit and other suspects from the hacking group will be charged.
Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) commander Pol Maj Gen Pisit Paoin said they believed the Narongrit had hacked into PM site three days before the attack but he didn't change anything.
The police said the suspect will be charged with a violation of Section 5 of the 2007 Computer Act for allegedly sharing the stolen data with the team members, according to Bangkok post report.
It appears the UHT was established by a Cambodian group. The TCSD have requested Cambodian authorities to help in investigating the Cambodian hackers.
An alleged international cyber criminals managed to steal $45 million from thousands of ATM's in matter of hours.
Their first operation started from India, the hackers were able to "infiltrate the system of an unnamed Indian credit-card processing company that handles Visa and MasterCard prepaid debit cards. "
In their first operation, the crews made 4,500 ATM transactions worldwide and stole $5million, according to New York Times report.
In the second operation, the crews made 36,000 transactions worldwide and stole about $40 million in approximately 10 hours. It included $2.4 million stolen by a team of eight people in New York City.
The seven of the eight suspected members of the New York crew have been arrested. The eighth, said to be the ringleader, was found dead on April 27 in the Dominican Republic.
The China Posts reports that Taiwan police has arrested an individual suspect surnamed Shih on May 1 for hacking into a popular local classic music website.
The police raided the apartment of Shih and seized his computer which is found to be used in his hacking attempts.
The hacker admitted that he hacked into the website's customer database and made unauthorized changes to customer data by exploiting the SQL Injection vulnerability.
Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) stated the investigation was launched after it received a report from the web site's operator who said their site had been been hacked in March.
An unknown hacker breached the website of the Prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra's office (opm.go.th/opminter/mainframe.asp) and posted abusive message with the altered photo of her.
"I’m a slutty moron” The offensive comment made by the cybercriminals in the defaced page. “I know that I am the worst Prime Minister ever in Thailand history!!!”.
Although the defacement sign says it was hacked by the hacker group "Unlimited Hack Team", the team denied the involvement in the security breach.
“It might have been done by some teenagers... or maybe it was for political purposes,” the prime minister’s secretary-general, Suranand Vejjajiva is quoted in the NewStraitsTimes' report as saying.
It appears the security breach comes after she filed a defamation case against a cartoonist for allegedly comparing her to a prostitute on his Facebook page.
"I’m a slutty moron” The offensive comment made by the cybercriminals in the defaced page. “I know that I am the worst Prime Minister ever in Thailand history!!!”.
Although the defacement sign says it was hacked by the hacker group "Unlimited Hack Team", the team denied the involvement in the security breach.
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“It might have been done by some teenagers... or maybe it was for political purposes,” the prime minister’s secretary-general, Suranand Vejjajiva is quoted in the NewStraitsTimes' report as saying.
“Hacking a website is easy... but don’t forget that checking who did it is not hard either,” he told reporters.
It appears the security breach comes after she filed a defamation case against a cartoonist for allegedly comparing her to a prostitute on his Facebook page.
