Creator of Blackshades Malware Jailed 4 Years in New York

A Swedish man who was the mastermind behind the $40 BlackShades Remote Access Tool RAT that infected over half a million systems around the world was sentenced to almost five years in a U.S. prison on Tuesday. Alex Yücel, 25, owned and operated an organization called "BlackShades" that sold a...

Threatpost News Wrap, May 23, 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the US indictments of Chinese army officers for hacking, the Blackshades malware arrests, the new IE 8 zero day and the US prospects in the World Cup. Download: digitalunderground154.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

FBI Arrests 100 Hackers linked to Blackshades Malware

On Friday, we reported about the large-scale operation of International raids launched by the FBI and other law enforcement officials in countries around the world to arrest the targeted customers of a popular Remote Administration Tool RAT called ‘Blackshades,’ which is designed to take over the...