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cybercrook

A person who gains illegal entrance into a computer system or who diverts financial transfers into his or her own account. See cracker and netopath.

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A BUSINESSMAN says a jailed cyber crook who hailed himself as a top entrepreneur and IT expert put his whole firm at risk.

FEAR THAT CYBER CROOK COULD HAVE WRECKED BUSINESS; Company boss says Prince put firm and jobs under threat

Nathan Wyatt, 35, was arrested after it emerged a cyber crook had demanded PS50,000 for thousands of images stolen from her iCloud account.

Cops quiz man over Pippa pics

The cyber crook, who demanded [euro]60,000 for images stolen from the 33-yearold's iCloud account, is being hunted by specialist officers from Scotland Yard.

Pippa nude pics hacker in hiding INTIMATE; Cyber crook's '[euro]60k minimum' demand; EXCLUSIVE

A CYBER crook was today behind bars for his role in an attack which saw tens of thousands stolen from cash machines in Liverpool.

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I now write them down and leave them in random places that not even the best cyber crook could find.

Suffering security insecurity

In fact, if a financial cyber crook did log on, rather than test my overdraft arrangement he might feel sorry enough to put a few quid in - they would probably have enough left over from the Barclays job, anyway.

Does bad luck come in threes?

The cyber crook, who demanded PS50,000 for images stolen from the 33-yearold's iCloud account, is being hunted by specialist officers from Scotland Yard.

Pippa nude pics hacker in hiding; Cyber crook's 'PS50k minimum' demand; EXCLUSIVE

Traditional Windows key loggers are designed to operate in the background, recording each tap of the keyboard in other programs and then sending that information to a cyber crook.

Experts ponder which security threats may gain speed

A CYBER crook who may have cost the music industry up to PS240m by illegally sharing tracks from his home is behind bars.

Internet music pirate jailed for PS240m loss

The latest victim is young Scot Peter Craddock who parted with pounds 3200 to buy a car after a cyber crook sent legitimate-looking emails, complete with official ebay logo.

The Judge: pounds 3200 victim of the ebay crooks; Every one of web firm's 10million Brit customers should read this.. and worry

Now to make a final attack, the cyber crook sent an SMS to the victim and as he opened it, a backdoor malware got downloaded on his phone giving the hacker a complete access to the," said cyber security expert Rakshit Tandon, who is also working with police officials in several states to crack various cyber crime cases.

Hackers use mobile route to your bank

15 JAILED hacker Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth) is offered his freedom if he can bring to justice a cyber crook who caused havoc by tampering with the price of soy.