FBI Busts Rydox Marketplace with 7,600 PII Sales, Cryptocurrency Worth $225K Seized

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the shutdown of an illicit marketplace called Rydox "rydox.ru" and "rydox.cc" for selling stolen personal information, access devices, and other tools for conducting cybercrime and fraud. In tandem, three Kosovo nationals and administrators...

Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested

Another week, another massive data breach. Capital One, the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer and banking institution, has recently suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants in the United States and 6 million in Canada. The data...

WannaCry hero MalwareTech pleads guilty to writing banking malware

By Ryan De Souza MalwareTech is now facing 10 years in prison. In 2017, Marcus Hutchin who goes by the Twitter handle of MalwareTech halted the infamous WannaCry ransomware after registering its killswitch domain. As a result, Hutchin was hailed as WannaCry hero but in August the same year,...

This Week in Security News: Cyber Leads and Email Frauds

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, The Trump Administration added a cyber lead at Homeland Security and the Energy Department. Also, the FBI announced the arrest of 74 “email...

FBI Arrests A Cyberstalker After Shady "No-Logs" VPN Provider Shared User Logs

FBI recently arrested a psycho cyber stalker with the help of a popular VPN service and this case apparently exposed the company's lies about the "no logs" policy. Taking down cyber stalkers and criminals is definitely a good thing, and the FBI has truly done a great job, but the VPN company whos...

British Intelligence Knew WannaCry Hero Would be Arrested by FBI

By Waqas By now you might be aware of Marcus Hutchins, the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: British Intelligence Knew WannaCry Hero Would be Arrested by FBI...

FBI Arrests NSA Contractor for Leaking Secrets – Here's How they Caught Her

The FBI arrested a 25-year-old NSA contractor on Saturday 3rd June for leaking classified information to an online news outlet which published its report yesterday 5th June — meaning the arrest was made two days before the actual disclosure went online. Reality Leigh Winner, who held a top-secret...

Russian Hacker Behind LinkedIn Breach also Charged with Hacking Dropbox and Formspring

The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police, was believed to be the one responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, according to a statement released by LinkedIn. Now, United States authorities have officially indicted Yevgeniy...

Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used by FBI to shutdown Child porn on Tor Network hosting; Tor Mail Compromised

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, child pornography, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 was used by...

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man,Christopher Chaney and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe...

British VPN Service Defends Role in Lulzsec Bust

British virtual private network VPN company Hide My Ass has taken a stand about their involvement in the arrest of an alleged Lulzsec member last week. In a blog post published on Friday, the company reiterated that they keep logs of their users’ history for 30 days and they will cooperate with l...

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous

FBI arrests AT &T employee for leaking information toAnonymous The Tech Herald reported on information given to us by Ryan Cleary shortly before his arrest. AT&T insider who handed sensitive information and a bootable USB disk over to Anonymous. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested an AT&T employee...