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INVISUS Direct Cybercriminal Activity Report
By admin | May 15, 2008
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This is our monthly INVISUS Direct Cybercriminal activity report. Our goal is to provide our readers with current information, which they can share with their friends, family, subscribers and anyone who is serious about protecting themselves from cyber predators.
Seattle - Gregory Kopiloff, 35, was sentenced to 51 months in prison after pleading guilty last year to using file-sharing programs to pull off an ID Theft scam.
He used P2P programs to search the computers of other people in file-sharing networks to steal their personal information off tax returns, student financial aid applications and credit card reports.
Make sure everyone you knows fully understands the dangers of P2P file-sharing software.
Toronto - Paul Gillespie, a former police officer here, was appointed director of the Centre of Cybercrime Research. The institute is a University of Ontario Institute of Technology initiative designed to help law enforcement responded to internet crimes, particularly cyberstalking and phishing.
Mexico - Five people here agreed to join 45 other individuals from around the world in the McAfeee S.P.A.M. (Spam Persistently All Month) Experience.
McAfee outfitted participants with a laptop free of anti-spam protection and they were asked to respond to junk emails to see what happens.
West Haven, Conn - Daniel Mascia, 24 faces up to five years in prison after admitting his involvement in an AOL phishing scam. The scheme involved sending face greeting cards emails, which actually contained malware.
Panama City, Fla - Robert Bentley, 21, pleaded guilty to infecting hundreds of computers in Europe with adware, costing victims tens of thousands of dollars to detect and remediate. Bentley and his co-conspirators received money for placing the adware from a Western Europe-based operation. He faces 10 years in prison.
Ukraine - A convicted cybercrime boss is now heading the newly formed Internet Party of Ukraine, a political party created after the nation’s parliamentary elections last year. Dmitri golubov, 24 who used the online alias “script”, had been jailed after leading the Carderplanet.com forum, which traded stolen credit card numbers.
Asia-Pacific region is the top source of zombies.
The nature of spam and its distribution on the internet presents challenges in identifying the location of people who are sending it. Many spammers try to redirect attention away from their actual geopgraphic location. IN an attempt to bypass DNS block lists, they use trojans that relay mail, which allows them to send spam from sites that are distent from their physical location.
Never Give Up,
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