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Federal prosecutors charged Zhuoying Chen and Haojie Zhang with conspiracy to commit money laundering after the pair allegedly moved $43 million in pig butchering fraud proceeds through 140 bank accounts under 45 shell companies.
Federal prosecutors unsealed a 2024 indictment against three Russian nationals who ran Medialand LLC and ML.Cloud LLC — bulletproof hosting services used by LockBit, BlackSuit, and Play ransomware gangs to victimize 44 organizations across 21 US states.
A Bulgarian national already serving over 10 years for laundering millions stolen from American fraud victims now faces new charges after allegedly...
Angelo Martino, a former cyber recovery specialist at DigitalMint, was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison after secretly feeding confidential...
A 21-year-old New York man faces federal cyberstalking charges after allegedly using AI to generate nude images of a Georgia college student and...
Oleksii Lytvynenko, a 44-year-old Ukrainian national, has pleaded guilty to participating in the prolific Conti ransomware group after being arrested in...
A Ukrainian national extradited from Ireland to the United States has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges tied to the Conti ransomware operation, which...
The U.S. Department of Justice's 'Disruption Week' operation has dismantled Southeast Asia-linked crypto fraud networks, freezing $3.8 million in assets and…
Two former executives of a call-tracking and analytics company have pleaded guilty to concealing a years-long tech support fraud scheme that victimized...
Two U.S. men have been sentenced for operating laptop farms that helped North Korean IT workers fraudulently obtain employment at nearly 70 American...
In a rare show of bilateral cooperation, the US Justice Department and Chinese authorities jointly dismantled a major cryptocurrency investment fraud scam...
A California man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for his role in laundering proceeds for a cybercriminal organization that...
Evan Tangeman, 22, of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for laundering funds stolen in a $230 million cryptocurrency...
Angelo Martino, 41, a former employee of cybersecurity incident response firm DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies with BlackCat...
Two New Jersey men received prison sentences of nine and nearly eight years respectively for operating IT laptop farms that funneled over $5 million to...
A joint operation by the US Department of Justice, Canada, and Germany has dismantled the infrastructure behind four highly disruptive IoT botnets that...
Ilya Angelov, co-leader of the TA551/Mario Kart cybercrime group, was sentenced to two years in prison for operating a phishing botnet that sent 700,000...
Aleksei Volkov, a Russian initial access broker who sold unauthorized access to U.S. companies for the Yanluowang ransomware group, has been sentenced to...
James Junior Aliyu, 31, received a 90-month federal prison sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering after orchestrating a $6...
The U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with Germany and Canada, has dismantled the C2 infrastructure of four major IoT botnets — AISURU, Kimwolf,...
Evgenii Ptitsyn, 43, a Russian national who administered the Phobos ransomware-as-a-service operation, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in the U.S....
An incident response manager and a ransomware negotiator face up to 20 years after admitting to conducting BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks against...