Georgian politician Shota Shalelashvil says his son left the US after being released in 2021, but plans to go back to America as his 'skills are too big for Israel'
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Illustrative: A broker works in a trading room of a Portuguese bank in Lisbon, Wednesday, July 3, 2013. (AP/Francisco Seco)
An Israeli man who founded a binary options trading platform has been named by Austrian authorities as one of the masterminds of a massive “pan-European” fraud scheme.
Austria’s Ministry of the Interior, which oversees police and public security, has cited Israeli citizen Ilan Tzorya, founder of the binary options platform Tradologic, as one of the masterminds of a fraud scheme that allegedly netted over 200 million euros.
The January/February 2021 issue of the ministry’s magazine “Öffentliche Sicherheit” (Public Safety), featured an article describing how federal police have, since 2017, investigated an Israeli-run multinational ring of allegedly fraudulent call centers running financial websites. The investigation has thus far led to 11 suspects being taken into custody as well as a conviction of Tzorya’s former business as
January 14, 2021
Andrei Tyurin targeted JPMorgan Chase Bank, E TRADE, Scottrade, and The Wall Street Journal.
A Russian hacker has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for computer intrusion, wire fraud, and bank fraud in connection with a massive computer hacking campaign that targeted JPMorgan Chase Bank, E TRADE, Scottrade,
The Wall Street Journal, and other American companies.
According to the allegations 37-year-old Andrei Tyurin pleaded guilty to, he engaged in an extensive computer hacking campaign from 2012 to mid-2015 against financial institutions, brokerage firms, and financial news publishers in the US. He was also responsible for the theft of personal information of more than 100 million customers of the victim companies.
The DarkMarket criminal website shut, hacker gets 12 years in prison, digital currency thefts and more.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday January 13th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast click on the arrow below:
If you’re tired of hearing about COVID and impeachment, here’s some good news: DarkMarket, believed to be the largest criminal website for buying and selling illegal goods, has been shut by the combined efforts of police and intelligence agencies in seven countries. The Europol police co-operative said this week that the site had more than 500,000 users buying and selling goods like malware, drugs, counterfeit money, stolen credit card information through 2,400 sellers. It’s estimated that $170 million worth of digital currency went through the marketplace. German police arrested an Australian citizen believed to be the operator of the site. More than 20 servers in Moldova and Ukrain