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Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

January 19, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adavio, amazon.ca, duncan's first nation, rcmp, royal canadian mounted police, The Coming Storm, timothy barker, triangulation fraud, walmart, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:34:53 +0000

A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. His case appears to involve “triangulation fraud,” which occurs when a consumer purchases something online — from a seller on Amazon or eBay, for example — but the seller doesn’t actually own the item for sale. Instead, the seller purchases the item from an online retailer using stolen payment card data. In this scam, the unwitting buyer pays the scammer and receives what they ordered, and very often the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

November 13, 2019 0 Comments australian federal police, blackshades rat, john revesz, luminositylink, nanocore rat, Ne'er-Do-Well News, orcus rat, orcus technologies, rcmp, royal canadian mounted police, taylor huddleston

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:41:17 +0000

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.