City in India Launches Cyber Crime Police Station

The city of Kolkata, India, has launched a police station that will be solely devoted to handling cyber crime issues, according to an article in the Indian Express. The police launched a website, http://kolkatapolice-cybercampaign.net, which serves as an educational platform along with serving as a complaint receipt system and query registry.

Once the cyber police station is formed, it will be the fourth…

Good Cyber Hygiene for Cyber Monday

The business community has termed today, ‘Cyber Monday,’ as a number of sales have now gone online.  While more people are using the internet to purchase gifts during the holiday season, they would do well to keep in mind some good tips for keeping their data secure in cyberspace.

Shoppers should be particularly wary of phishing scams and ensure that they use established contact points to contact any businesses. Scammers…

FBI Wants Data Breach Law

An FBI representative said Wednesday a federal law requiring businesses to report data breaches would help the bureau  combat cyber crime.

The sharing of such information would enable police organizations to connect attacks and defeat them.

Jeff Troy, the head of the Cyber Criminal Section at the FBI, said such a law “would help us tremendously.” He also said when considering cybersecurity, companies and organizations need to look beyond…

One Group Responsible for 25 Percent of Phishing Attacks

According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, one gang of cyber criminals is responsible for 25 percent of the phishing attacks in the first half of 2009. The gang, called Avalanche, attack online services, job listing pages and financial institutions.

Avalanche began operations late in 2008 and have consistently stepped up their attacks. The gang uses constantly shifting IP addresses, which voids the capability of investigators to…

Nigeria Cracks Down on Cyber Crime

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, reported 800 fraud emailers have been deactivated. Additionally, members of 18 cyber crime syndicates have been arrested.

EFCC has been working with Microsoft to help track down the cyber criminals. Police units have moved to a greater reliance on technology to catch fraudsters, replacing the practice of raiding cyber cafes. Many of the email scammers use Internet…

NH Man Made $112,000 in Bank-Account Hacking Scheme

Alexey Mineev, a  Hampton, N.H., resident, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges for his role in a scheme to empty brokerage accounts by installing Trojan keystroke-monitoring software on victims’ computers.

The hacker would infect PCs with malicious Trojan software via spam, software that monitored keystrokes after an infected computer logged on to a brokerage website.  The hackers would then sift through the information, deducing account numbers and passwords and wiring funds…