Barrett Brown charged with Internet threats, retaliation, conspiracy charges

A Dallas man linked to the worldwide hacking group Anonymous is accused of threatening to ruin an FBI agent's life in online postings. Barrett Lancaster Brown, 31, of Dallas, was indicted on one count of making an Internet threat, one count of conspiring to make restricted personal information of...

Члены группировкиAntiSec заявляют что выложили в инет данныекред карт 13федералов США

Взято с: http://www.anti-malware.ru/news/2012-09-16/10023 Дата публикации: 16.09.12 Поводом для этой акции послужил арест Баррета Брауна, называвшего себя пресс-секретарём хакерской группировки Anonymous. Брауна обвиняют в том, что он угрожал федеральному агенту. Баррета Брауна арестовали AntiSec...

Anonymous member Barrett Brown Arrested by FBI

Anonymous hacker Barrett Brown was arrested by the FBI last night, his apartment raided while he was in the middle of a live TinyChat session. For those that may not be familiar with Brown, he came to some notoriety last year for allegedly mounting an operation against the Zeta drug cartel in...

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the file sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Cambodia after an international warrant was issued following a conviction in Sweden for copyright violations. The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed only that a Swedish man "in his...

Second LulzSec Member Arrested for Sony Pictures Attack

A Tempe, Arizona man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly taking part in the June 2011 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s network, in which passwords and other personal data was stolen from one million user accounts. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, was charged with conspiracy and unauthorized...

Alleged Anonymous hacker arrested for Facebook threat

Hong Kong police said Sunday they had arrested a 21-year-old man believed to be a member of the international hacker group Anonymous, after he reportedly said on social networking site Facebook that he would hack several government websites. "The Internet is not a virtual world of lawlessness," a...

Millions of Mobile Phone Users' Data Leaked in South Korea Scam

Two men have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly leaking the information of almost nine million of the nation’s mobile phone users, including details of the users’ monthly plans, according to a report issued by the Korea National Police Agency’s KNPA Cyber Terror Response Center CTRC over...

Three Baltic Men Jailed After Using SpyEye Malware

Two men found using the SpyEye Trojan to swindle users out of their banking information were jailed last week after violating the United Kingdom’s Computer Misuse Act. Pavel Cyganok, 28, a Lithuanian, along with Ilja Zakrevski, 26, an Estonian, were jailed for four years while a third man, Latvia...

Six Additional Carberp Scammers Arrested For Stealing $3.67m

Six more members of the Carberp gang have been arrested, according reports from the Russian Interior Ministry. Working with the firm Group-IB, authorities arrested six individuals affiliated with the Carberp and Hodprot malware. The group is alleged to have been responsible for thefts from client...

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of being a member of "TeamPoison", a computer hacking group that has claimed responsibility for 1,400 offences including an attack on the phone system of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism un...

Teen's Arrest Underscores Need for More Secure Web Development

A 15-year-old who claimed he was bored when he turned to hacking was arrested for breaking into almost 260 companies during the first three months of this year, according to a ZDNet article published earlier today. Austria’s Federal Criminal Police Office said the teenager, who used the hacker...

UK Teen, TeaMp0isoN Member, Arrested For 'Phone Bomb' Attack

A British teenager believed to be the hacker TriCk, a founding member of TeaMp0isoN has reportedly been arrested after launching a denial of service attack against an anti-terrorism hotline in the UK. The 17 year-old, a resident of Birmingham in the UK, was arrested on April 12 in connection with...

Fortune Favors the Bold? Man Steals Microsoft Founder's Identity, Credit Card

When one Pennsylvanian man couldn’t foot his bills, he opted to steal the identity of someone that could – one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. An AWOL solider from Pittsburgh swiped Allen’s Citibank credit card account information earlier this year to...

17-year-old Hacker arrested for hacking into KPN mobile telecommunications

17-year-old Hacker arrested for hacking into KPN mobile telecommunications A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for hacking into mobile telecommunications company KPN in the Netherlands. He has also been accused of other breaches in Japan, Korea, and Norway. The teenager was arrested last Tuesday ...

Chinese hacker arrested for leaking 6 million logins from CSDN

In the biggest hacking case in China's Internet history, police have arrested a man suspected of leaking personal information about more than six million users. The suspect, surnamed Zeng, was nabbed in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on February 4 after an investigation into the case,...

Russian Agencies Take Down Carberp Gang

A collaborative effort between a Russian security company and two Russian federal agencies has yielded the arrest of eight men allegedly involved in the Carberp Trojan scam, it was announced today. Officials from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD and Federal Security Service FSB, along wi...

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous The Facebook page of Hizb Ettahrir, an Islamist political party that is legally unrecognized in Tunisia, was hacked last night by a Tunisian group claiming affiliation with the international cyber activist collective Anonymous. "We are fighting you...

THE "TRUTH" SIMMERS THE POT OF SABU

THE "TRUTH" SIMMERS THE POT OF SABU By: Patti Galle, Editor THN. As I look at my guy fawkes mask and reflect on the recent arrest of several lulzsec members, I have a wrenching feeling in my gut to tell the "truth." Gather around anonymous, lulzsec, FBI, passionate supporters, liberal haters, and...

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail Wednesday after a judge said he didn't appear to have enough money to flee. Authorities in the U.S. allege founder Kim Dotcom facilitated millions of...

NASA Hacker Arrested in Romania

Razvan Manole Cernaianu, perhaps better known as Tinkode, the hacker who gained notoriety after allegedly compromising a number of websites, including those of NASA, the European Space Agency, and Sun Microsystems, was recently arrested in Romania. According to a statement released by the Romania...