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FBI Seizes RaidForums and Arrests Alleged Founder Diogo Santos Coelho
By Waqas Diogo Santos Coelho, aka Omnipotent 21 of Portugal was arrested in the United Kingdom on January 31st, 2022,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI Seizes RaidForums and Arrests Alleged Founder Diogo Santos Coelho...
Russia-Ukraine Cybersecurity Updates
Cyberattacks are a distinct concern in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with the potential to impact individuals and organizations far beyond the physical frontlines. With events unfolding rapidly, we want to provide a single channel by which we can communicate to the security community the major...
This Week in Security News - February 11, 2022
Hidden scams in malicious scans, and feds arrest couple who allegedly laundered $1 Billion in stolen bitcoins...
Husband and wife among ransomware operators arrested in Ukraine
By Waqas Gang of five arrested in Ukraine for their involvement in large-scale ransomware attacks on international firms costing millions… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Husband and wife among ransomware operators arrested in Ukraine...
Buckle Up for More Log4j Madness
Plus: An alleged spy, a ransomware arrest, and more of the week's top security news...
Canadian Ransomware Arrest Is a Meaningful Flex, Experts Say
Investigations that ran in parallel over nearly two years by Canadian and U.S. law enforcement have led to this week’s arrest of an Ottawa man, who is alleged to have an extensive track record of ransomware attacks on companies, governments and individuals. The highly-publicized arrest is a messa...
Ukraine Arrests Operator of DDoS Botnet with 100,000 Compromised Devices
Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a "powerful botnet" consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service DDoS and spam attacks on behalf of paid customer...
Ransomware Hackers Who Attacked Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine
Law enforcement agencies have announced the arrest of two "prolific ransomware operators" in Ukraine who allegedly conducted a string of targeted attacks against large industrial entities in Europe and North America since at least April 2020, marking the latest step in combating ransomware...
Police take a piece out of a ransomware gang, but won’t say which one
One of the worlds ransomware groups appears to be a couple of members short today—and about two million dollars less rich—but nobody is sure which one. Police are staying tight-lipped about whos short-handed following the arrest of two individuals in Kyiv, Ukraine. The arrests are part of a joint...
Help Might Finally Be on the Way to Fight SIM-Swap Attacks
Plus: A cybersecurity CEO arrest, an Apple Pay hack, and more of the week's top security news...
Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB's CEO Arrested Over Treason Charges in Russia
Russian authorities on Wednesday arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the founder of cybersecurity firm Group-IB, for two months in Moscow on charges of state treason following a search of its office on September 28. The Russian company, which is headquartered in Singapore, confirmed the developme...
Biggest DDoS Attack in History Hits Russian Tech Giant Yandex
Plus: A TrickBot hacker arrest, a Fortinet VPN password leak, and more of the week's top security news...
ProtonMail Logs Activist's IP Address With Authorities After Swiss Court Order
End-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail has drawn criticism after it ceded to a legal request and shared the IP address of anti-gentrification activists with law enforcement authorities, leading to their arrests in France. The Switzerland-based company said it received a "legally...
Chinese Authorities Arrest Hackers Behind Mozi IoT Botnet Attacks
The operators of the Mozi IoT botnet have been taken into custody by Chinese law enforcement authorities, nearly two years after the malware emerged on the threat landscape in September 2019. News of the arrest, which originally happened in June, was disclosed by researchers from Netlab, the...
Another Hacker Arrested for 2020 Twitter Hack and Massive Bitcoin Scam
A U.K. citizen has been arrested in the Spanish town of Estepona over his alleged involvement in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, resulting in the compromise of 130 high-profile accounts. Joseph O'Connor, 22, has been charged with intentionally accessing a computer without authorization and obtaini...
Arrests of members of Tetrade seed groups Grandoreiro and Melcoz
Spains Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz also known as Mekotio cybercrime groups. Both are originally from Brazil and form part of the Tetrade umbrella, operating for a few years now in Latin America and Western Europe...
How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?
The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman whos alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Just how di...
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him...
FIN7 sysadmin behind “billions in damage” gets 10 years
In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. Ukrainian nationals Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr, and Andrii Kolpakov, were members of a prolific hacking group widely known...