Crooks earned at least $1.35m with spamming campaigns | Homeland Security Degrees
Crooks earned at least $1.35m with spamming campaigns | Homeland Security Degrees
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Authorities identified a man in Florida that powered spamming campaigns abusing an army of corporate servers and private email accounts.
Spam is still a profitable business for crooks and to give you an idea of how the cyber criminals work let share with you the story of the leader of a spamming gang.
Timothy Livingston (31), from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, used an army of corporate servers and private email accounts to send out spam messages. He has pled guilty to charges of computer hacking and identity theft, the man with two other accomplices was running A Whole Lot of Nothing (AWLN), LLC.
The company was used as a front for illegal activities of suspects, it …
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