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Feds Move Against Online Trading Criminals
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:03:21 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via ABC News' "The Blotter". [snip] Customers of Merrill Lynch, E*Trade and other major online brokerage firms are being targeted by a ring of Eastern European cybercriminals, federal law enforcement officials tell ABC News. The Securities and Exchange Commission said today it has moved against the ring which they believe illegally accessed trading accounts at seven top firms from computers in Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and the British Virgin Islands. Authorities say the ring took control of customers' investments and switched them to penny stocks they controlled in order to temporarily drive up their prices, ultimately leaving the investors with portfolios that were worthless. A federal judge yesterday evening agreed to an SEC request to freeze $3 million in an account at a U.S. branch of an Eastern European bank, which investigators say belongs to the criminals. [snip] More: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/feds_move_again.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF7v5jq1pz9mNUZTMRAhoCAKCbyDm7Z3U6OYyELeeXqxbz26DdVQCfalDu 4kJL5IoLi5syhgHEC6JNPJI= =HjIH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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