LulzSec Hacker Sabu Sentenced to Time Served

The LulzSec hacker-turned-informant known as Sabu avoided any more jail time and was sentenced to time served on Tuesday for his part in leading several of the group’s attacks on high-profile targets. Hector Monsegur walked out of court in New York a free man, thanks to his cooperation with the F...

To Tackle Cyber Crime, FBI Could Hire Hackers Who Smoke Weed

Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has been authorized by U.S Congress to hire 2,000 new employees this year, and many of those will be young hackers and Programmers in order to built-up its cyber crime division, but FBI’s Director ‘James B. Comey’ is facing some difficulties. Apparently, FBI’s...

The U.S., China and Glass Houses

That was quite a show the government put on Monday. The dramatic press conference featuring Attorney General Eric Holder, the coordinated press leaks ahead of the announcement, the strong statements about the sanctity of American commerce and how the United States will prosecute those who conduct...

Blackshades RAT Takedown Leads to 90 Arrests

More than 90 arrests have been made in connection with development and sales of a remote access Trojan used worldwide to steal data and spy on victims, including Syrian dissidents. The FBI and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office yesterday announced the takedown of the Blackshades operation...

Retailers Form ISAC to Share Threat Data

From the beginning of the cybercrime epidemic, retailers have been among the most frequent targets, and the last year has seen some of the larger compromises in history. The Target data breach is at the top of that list, involving more than 100 million customers, and after years of increasingly...

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...

FBI raids BlackShades RAT Malware Customers in Europe and Australia

When it comes to crime, whether it’s an online or offline, FBI doesn't spare anyone. According to the French media reports and various announcements on underground forums by hacking groups, the FBI has started a large-scale operation of International raids with the help of local law enforcement...

New Guidelines Explain How Apple will Legally Process Law Enforcement Data Requests

Despite the contrary regarding NSA’s DROPOUTJEEP program, Apple had always denied working with the NSA in the creation of any backdoors used to spy on its users and also claimed that the NSA doesn't have backdoor access to its data. But, Apple could legally share your phone data with the law...

U.S Federal Agencies Want To Secretly Hack Suspects' Computers for Criminal Evidence

The US Justice Department DOJ is seeking a transition in the criminal rules that would make the authorities to have more leeway to secretly hack into the suspected criminals’ computer during criminal investigations at any times in bunches. The proposed PDF change in the rules would make FBI to...

Anonymous Hacker Charged with CyberStalking Faces 440 Years in Jail

An alleged member of the famous amorphous Hacktivist group Anonymous is now facing a total of 44 charges after the filing of the latest superseding Indictment of cyber assaults charges against him with the collective to hack Computer systems of a County Government, a school district and a Newspap...

Silk Road Dealer Plead Guilty For Selling Illegal Drugs for Bitcoins

Last October, the ‘Silk Road’ story broke when its owner Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old who allegedly created and managed the Silk Road underground website, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. The police seized the website that was considered one of the most popular...

Federal Court Rejects Lavabit's Contempt Appeal

A Federal court struck down Lavabit’s appeal today, affirming contempt of court sanctions against the now-shuttered secure email provider that was forced to release its SSL keys to the FBI last year. Those keys could have decrypted emails belonging to the company’s founder Ladar Levison along wit...

Data Breaches Show Difficulty of Defenders' Task

When attackers broke into the network of the University of Maryland last month, the university’s wasn’t sure how to react. The organization had never had a major security incident before, and this one qualified as major: 310,000 Social Security numbers and other information was gone. And then thr...

Microsoft charges FBI for your Information; Syrian Electronic Army leaks Invoices

Till now we all were aware about the truth that tech companies gave legal access to user data on the government's request, but we were unaware that well known tech companies also charge the government for providing data. Syrian Electronic Army SEA, the pro-hacker group, who had compromised...

New Zorenium Bot Boasts Ability to Run on iOS

UPDATE–The iOS platform has been remarkably resistant to malware infections over the years and attackers interested in mobile devices mainly have focused their efforts on Android. But the developer of a little-known bot that has the ability to run on Linux and Windows machines now has a version...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Day Two at the RSA Conference

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso run down the news from day two of the RSA Conference, including the new FBI director’s speech and preview Trusty Con. Download: digitalunderground147.mp3...

FBI Director James B. Comey RSA Conference Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO – Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller predicted to his successor James B. Comey that cybersecurity would dominate his 10-year tenure much the same way terrorism did Mueller’s. “After five months, he’s right,” Comey said today during his keynote address at RSA Conference 2014. Comey...

SpyEye creator pleads guilty in U.S Federal Court

Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, one of the alleged masterminds behind the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, pleaded guilty in an Atlanta courtroom yesterday to conspiracy charges relating to the development and distribution of the the malware. Panin pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire and bank...

24-year-old Russian Hacker and Developer of SpyEye Banking Trojan pleads guilty

A Russian man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a federal court in Atlanta on Tuesday for developing and distributing a malicious banking malware 'SpyEye' that infected more than 1.4 million computers worldwide since 2009. Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a 24 year old programmer, also known...

FBI seized entire database of TorMail service; using it to catch Criminals

Using Tormail Email service for being Anonymous online while conversations and mail exchange?? There is a very disappointing news for all current and past users, US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has a complete copy of Tormail server and they are using it to catch the Criminals & Hackers...