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San Francisco (AFP) – Hackers targeting jail-broken iPhones have raided more than 225,000 Apple accounts, using them for app-buying sprees or to hold phones for ransom, researchers said on Tuesday. Jail-broken means modified to run apps not sanctioned by …
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In a development that those involved in the project clearly should have seen coming, the FBI today shut down Silk Road 2.0, the revival of the deep web black market site that the FBI took down in September 2013, and arrested its suspected operator exactly one year after it went live.
Blake Benthall, a 26-year-old San Francisco programmer who claimed to work for SpaceX, was charged with conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, which, the FBI reminds us in a press release, “carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison,” among other charges.
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More than 100 alleged cyber criminals were targeted July 14 in Romania as part of an ongoing investigation by that country and the United States into an Internet fraud ring.
During the Romanian raids, law enforcement authorities in that nation executed 117 searches involving more than 100 individuals.
According to U.S. court documents, in many of the cases, conspirators located in Romania would post items for sale such as cars, motorcycles and boats on Internet auction and online Websites.
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