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Hacker Gets Five Years for Stealing Billions in Bitcoin

Ilya Lichtenstein, 36, a Russian-U.S. national living in New York City, was sentenced on Nov. 14 to five years in prison for his part in a conspiracy to steal around 120,000 Bitcoins from the global cryptocurrency exchange Bifinex, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders | Dec 2, 2024

Ilya Lichtenstein and His Wife Heather Morgan Have Pleaded Guilty to a Crypto Scam

Misrepresentation

Air National Guard Member Will Serve 15 Years for Leaking Hundreds of Classified Documents on Discord

Jack Douglas Teixeira, 22, a member of the Air National Guard from North Dighton, Mass., was sentenced to 15 years in prison and three years supervised release on Nov. 12 for sharing hundreds of classified and Top Secret national defense Information documents on Discord, a social media site, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders | Nov 28, 2024

Jack Teixeira an Air National Guardsman Has Been Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Disclosing U.S. Classified Information

Financial Gains

Nigerian Gets a Decade in Prison for Role in $20 Million Fraud Conspiracy

Babatunde Francis Ayeni, 33, a Nigerian national living in the United Kingdom, was sentenced to ten years in prison for his part in a years-long scheme that affected 400 people and stole nearly $20 million, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders | Nov 25, 2024

Babatunde Francis Ayeni Has Been Sentenced in a 20 Million Fraud Conpiracy. - The Daily Muck

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Elder Fraud

Nigerian Sentenced for Defrauding Seniors Via Romance Scams

A federal court sentenced Ogheneofejiro Godswill Uzokpa, 28, of Warri, Nigeria, to seven years in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from at least a dozen elderly women in a romance scheme, according to a DOJ press release. The sentence comes after Uzokpa pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count […]

Report Jessika Saunders | Nov 19, 2024

An Elderly Woman Uses a Messaging App on Her Laptop Representing at Least 12 Women That Ogheneofejiro Godswill Uzokpa Victimized with Romance Scams - The Daily Muck

AI Extortion

Alleged Russian Ransomware Attacker Indicted

Aleksandr Viktorovich Ryzhenkov, a Russian national, was charged with using the BitPaymer ransomware variant to perform attacks on numerous victims in Texas and throughout the United States, holding their sensitive data for ransom, according to a public statement by the U.S. Justice Department.

Report Strahinja Nikolić | Nov 5, 2024

Identity Theft

Feds: Iranian Hackers Tried to Sow Discord in the United States

Three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been charged with conspiracy, fraud, identity theft and wire fraud for allegedly hacking into accounts of current and former U.S. officials, media, NGOs and U.S. political campaigns, according to a recently unsealed indictment obtained by The Daily Muck.

Report Strahinja Nikolić | Oct 28, 2024

Masoud Jalili Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yaser Balaghi Are All Alleged Iranian Hackers Wanted By The FBI in Conjunction for Hacking Attacks Against U.S. Officials and Others - The Daily Muck

Identity Theft

Wanted: Russian Money Launderers Who Sold Stolen Credit Cards on the Dark Web

Working with the State Department and the Treasury Department, as well as other international and federal law enforcement partners, the DOJ seized cryptocurrency exchange websites and charged two Russian nationals in a billion-dollar money laundering scheme, according to an indictment that was unsealed on Sept. 26.

Report Jessika Saunders | Oct 17, 2024

The U.S. Has Authorized a 10 Million Award for Information Leading to the Arrest of Timur Shakhmametov - The Daily Muck

Identity Theft

U.S. Shuts Down Chinese State-Sponsored Botnet

A federal court in Pennsylvania authorized the disruption of a 200,000-device botnet targeting consumers in the United States and worldwide, according to a DOJ press release.

Report Jessika Saunders | Oct 8, 2024

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Financial Gains

Feds: Romanian Fraudster Stole Hundreds of Thousands in SNAP and Other Benefits from Low-Income Families

A Romanian national stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from families who can barely make ends meet.

Report Jessika Saunders | Oct 3, 2024

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Money Laundering

Feds Charge Man with “Music Streaming Fraud” for Distributing AI-Made Songs

In a fascinating new case that tests the legality of AI-generated art, Michael Smith, a 52-year-old musician from Cornelius, North Carolina, was arrested and indicted for using sophisticated artificial intelligence to create a streaming music fraud scheme that netted him more than $10 million.

Report Strahinja Nikolić | Sep 26, 2024

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Influence Peddling

Alleged RT Agents Charged With Deceiving American Public

Two women allegedly worked with a sanctioned Russian media company to use an independent media organization to interfere with America’s election proceedings.

Report Jessika Saunders | Sep 24, 2024