U.S. Secret Service
Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia's top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of ...
$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia
The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground's most trusted ...
APT41 Sent US Covid Cash to China — Wicked Panda
Chinese hackers stole tens of millions of dollars from PPP, the federal Paycheck Protection Program. So say Secret Service sources ...
Not-So-Secret Service: Text Retention and Deletion Policies
Recent news reports indicate that the United States Secret Service, as part of a hardware replacement policy for agents’ phones, allowed individual agents to wipe all of the data from their devices, ...
How Cyber Sleuths Cracked an ATM Shimmer Gang
In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new "shimming" devices made to clone data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many ...
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II
Yesterday's piece told the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo, a hacker the U.S. Secret Service described as someone who caused more material financial harm to more Americans than any other convicted cybercriminal ...
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I
At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as "Hieupc" was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world's ...
U.S. Secret Service Exposes Unemployment Benefits Scam by Overseas Fraud Ring
The latest memo from the U.S. Secret Service reveals that overseas criminals are registering for unemployment claims using stolen Social Security numbers and personally identifiable information (PII). Unemployment benefit scams are not ...
Encoding Stolen Credit Card Data on Barcodes
Crooks are constantly dreaming up new ways to use and conceal stolen credit card data. According to the U.S. Secret Service, the latest scheme involves stolen card information embedded in barcodes affixed ...
Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has ...
