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Jail for former registrar who hacked court system, issued fake order – 17 July 2020
A woman who exploited her job as a court registrar to hack into a computer system and issue a false intervention order against a friend’s ex-partner, has been jailed for at least 13 months.
Clive Palmer charged with fraud and corporate misconduct offences – 17 July 2020
ASIC has charged businessman and former federal MP Clive Palmer with fraud, relating to two payments worth more than $12m. The fraud and corporate misconduct offences carry lengthy prison sentences and were over the alleged diversion of at least $10m to the benefit of his Palmer United party, in the weeks before the 2013 election.
Twitter hackers shifting money in bitcoin wallets leave digital trail – 17 July 2020
A Twitter breach allowed hackers to tweet a Bitcoin spam message from high profile accounts such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to all their followers. They posted a double-your-money bitcoin scam, alongside a bitcoin wallet code for people to drop their digital currency into. The wallet received more $172,000 within a matter of hours. Soon after, the funds started moving around wallets.The company has also revealed personal information of some of the world’s wealthiest people was leaked during the attack.
The battle to keep up with nimble cyber-crims – 16 July 2020
ASIC is concerned at the number of transactional criminals who can be based anywhere in the world. They are capable of switching off a particular scam quickly, if they discover law enforcement bodies across the globe have discovered it.
https://www.bankingday.com/battle-to-keep-up-with-nimble-cybercrims
