Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2020
The Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik goes on trial in Paris for having defrauded nearly 200 victims across the world of 135 million euros using ransomware. The Russian man Alexander Vinnik goes on trial in Paris for having defrauded nearly 200 victims across the world of 135M euros using ransomware. Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2020
Multiple members of QQAAZZ multinational cybercriminal gang were charged for providing money-laundering services to high-profile malware operations. 20 members of the multinational cybercriminal group QQAAZZ were charged this week in the US, Portugal, Spain, and the UK for providing money-laundering services. The arrests are the result of an unprecedented international law enforcement operation, coordinated by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2020
Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities. According to the Ukrainian officials, the cryptocurrency exchanges allowed crooks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2020
New Zealand police had frozen NZ$140 million (US$90 million) in assets linked to a Russian cyber criminal. New Zealand police announced that they had frozen NZ$140 million (US$90 million) in assets linked to the Russian nation Alexander Vinnik. Alexander Vinnik is currently in France to face a charge of money laundering for organised crime using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2020
The US DoJ announced that a New York City man was charged with hacking, credit card trafficking, and money laundering conspiracies. New York City man Vitalii Antonenko (28) was charged with hacking, credit card trafficking, and money laundering conspiracies, states the US DoJ. The man was arrested in March 2019 and detained after his arrival […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
European law enforcement seized and shut down Bestmixer.io for reportedly laundering over $200 million in cryptocurrency. This week the Europol has dealt another blow to cybercrime, the European police along with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), and Luxembourg authorities shut down Bestmixer.io, on one of the worldâs leading cryptocurrency mixing services. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2018
Europol announced the arrest of 168 people under the European Money Mule Action âEMMA 4′, a massive operation that resulted in the identification of 1,504 money mules. Europol announced that 168 people have been arrested under the âEMMA 4â, an international operation conducted by law enforcement. EMMA 4 lasted from September to November 2018. Law enforcement in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2018
The Microsoft network engineer Raymond Uadiale (41) is facing federal charges in Florida for the alleged involvement in Reveton Ransomware case. The man is suspected to have had a role in helping launder money obtained from victims of the Reventon ransomware. Uadiale currently works at Microsoft site in Seattle since 2014, according to Florida police between October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2017
The Dutch police decrypted a number of PGP messages sent by crooks through their BlackBerry mobile devices for the criminal investigation on Ennetcom. PGP is an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can be used to sign emails, files, documents, or disk partitions. On April 2016, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2017
The money transfer leader company Western Union has agreed to forfeit $586 million  to settle fraud charges and admitted it facilitated scammers. Money transfer leader company Western Union has admitted to facilitating wire fraud and it has agreed to pay $586 million to settle fraud charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice. The services […]
