103 arrests for Internet fraud, related crimes since June: US
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US authorities arrested at least 103 suspects and filed 117 criminal complaints since June 1 in a crackdown on various forms of online fraud, Attorney General John Ashcroft said.
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Microsoft said it is working with law enforcement to crack down on phishing, filing 129 suits across the Europe and the Middle East. Already, at least five have settled.
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(InfoWorld) - Cybercriminals created a record number of phishing Web sites in July and also hijacked a record number of brands to help them do their work, a consortium that monitors online fraud said Monday. The number of phishing sites -- or fraudulent Web sites try to fool people into handing over sensitive personal information -- rose to 14,191 in July, an 18 percent increase over May, the previous all-time high, said the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). The fraudulent sites mimicked a record 154 brands, up 20 percent over June and 12 percent over the previous high, also recorded in May, APWG said. The latest figures show that online criminals are diversifying to target smaller financial institutions, Internet service providers and even government agencies, the group said. However, theÂ financial services industry is still targetedÂ the most, with more than nine out of 10 phishing sites aimed at that sector. The technical sophistication of phishing attacks is also increasing. APWG said that 1,850 phishing sites attempted to download a Trojan horse, a program that conceals itself in another, harmless-looking file but can be used to harvest personal information or download other malicious programs to an infected computer. APWG also said that one security vendor, Websense, detected special toolkits for sale on Russian Web sites to construct this kind of attack when a user visits a Web page. They can be fairly cheap, too: prices range from $20 to $300, APWG said. Also on the rise are "traffic redirector" Trojans, which force users to certain Web sites without their consent, APWG said. Overall, the United States hosts nearly 30 percent of all phishing sites, followed by South Korea at 13 percent and China at 12 percent, APWG figures shoed.
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Financial fraud rife, say criminologists More than three million online crimes were carried out last year, according to estimates published today. These included more than 200,000 cases of financial fraud, twice the official number of real-world robberies carried out during the same period.â¦
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Nine men are charged with fraud following arrests across England and Wales in a Â£250m VAT probe.
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Spanish police said on Sunday they had  arrested 63 people across the country in five investigations  into child pornography being posted, viewed and paid for on the  Internet.
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More than 100 people have been arrested in the largest global crackdown to date on identity theft, hacking and other Internet-based crimes, US Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Thursday.
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Microsoft  is helping law  enforcers hunt down criminals who try to steal bank account  details on the Internet and has initiated 129 lawsuits in  Europe and the Middle East, the U.S. software company said.
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Hoping to clean up the Internet&#39;s reputation as a haven for scam artists, federal officials unveiled a series of arrests, indictments and convictions Thursday involving a range of cyberfraud.
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U.S. officials on Tuesday announced the indictment of 21 people accused of bilking eBay bidders out of $5 million through an Internet fraud scheme that originated in Romania.
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Online tricksters looking to dupe consumers out of credit card numbers and other personal information have netted about $500 million from their hapless victims in the US, a national study released Wednesday showed.
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More than 100 people have been arrested in the largest global crackdown to date on identity theft, hacking and other Internet-based crimes, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Thursday.
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Grifters grabbed Spanish police arrested 76 people nationwide on Sunday in what is being touted as the country's biggest ever investigation into internet fraud.â¦
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A coalition of Internet and finance firms along with law enforcement agencies was launched in a bid to halt the growing number of online scams that lure consumers to fake websites to obtain personal and financial data.
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DOJ announces arrests, convictions for online fraud and other Net-related crimes.
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The Justice Department has made a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam" as part of a nationwide crackdown against Internet scam artists, a marketing group said Wednesday.
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Law enforcement authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have arrested 28 people on suspicion of operating Web sites that were allegedly designed to steal, sell and forge credit cards and identification documents. -The Washington Post