NY Couple Pleads Guilty to $4.5B Bitcoin Theft in Bitfinex Hack

By Waqas The guilty couple goes by the names of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: NY Couple Pleads Guilty to $4.5B Bitcoin Theft in Bitfinex Hack...

Owner of BreachForums Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime and Child Pornography Charges

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images. The development, first reported by DataBreaches.net last week, comes nearly four months after...

British hacker pleads guilty to hacking schemes, faces 77 years in prison

By Habiba Rashid Joseph James O'Connor was part of a hacking group that hacked over 130 Twitter accounts in July 2020. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: British hacker pleads guilty to hacking schemes, faces 77 years in prison...

U.S. Authorities Seize 13 Domains Offering Criminal DDoS-for-Hire Services

U.S. authorities have announced the seizure of 13 internet domains that offered DDoS-for-hire services to other criminal actors. The takedown is part of an ongoing international initiative dubbed Operation PowerOFF that's aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide. The...

The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer

I have been meaning to write about Joe Sullivan, Ubers former Chief Security Officer. He was convicted of crimes related to covering up a cyberattack against Uber. Its a complicated case, and Im not convinced that he deserved a guilty ruling or that its a good thing for the industry. I may still...

Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants

Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week's top security news...

Man pleads guilty to selling WhatsApp hacking tool, Signal Jammers & StingRays

By Waqas Carlos Guerrero, a prominent businessman marketed and sold hacking tools, IMSI catchers, and other malicious tools to clients… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man pleads guilty to selling WhatsApp hacking tool, Signal Jammers & StingRays...

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrels...

DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an "administrator" of a portal called DeepDotWeb DDW, a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar ,...

The story of the year: remote work

The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by these measures more than others is the employed. While direct customer facing businesses li...

Ex-employee hacked Cisco’s AWS Infrastructure; erased virtual machines

By Zara Khan Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, an Indian citizen on an H1-B visa has pleaded guilty to "Damaging Cisco’s Network." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ex-employee hacked Ciscos AWS Infrastructure; erased virtual machines...

Former Uber Security Chief Charged Over Covering Up 2016 Data Breach

The federal prosecutors in the United States have charged Uber's former chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, for covering up a massive data breach that the ride-hailing company suffered in 2016. According to the press release published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Sullivan "took deliberate...

Owner of dark web Freedom hosting pleads guilty to host child abuse content

By Waqas The culprit ran a hosting firm on the dark web which was home to millions of images and videos showing explicit content against children. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Owner of dark web Freedom hosting pleads guilty to host child abuse content...

Man pleads guilty to hacking Nintendo & possession of child pornography

By Waqas The hacker has pleaded guilty to hacking into Nintendo Co. LTD’s servers and stealing proprietary information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man pleads guilty to hacking Nintendo & possession of child pornography...

Windows 7 Gets One Last Update For the Road

A Silk Road guilty plea, a UN hack, and more of the week's top security news...

Former Yahoo Employee Admits Hacking into 6000 Accounts for Sexual Content

An ex-Yahoo! employee has pleaded guilty to misusing his access at the company to hack into the accounts of nearly 6,000 Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexually explicit images and videos. According to an press note released by the U.S. Justice Department, Reyes...

Judge Rules No Jail Time for WannaCry 'Killer' Marcus Hutchins, a.k.a. MalwareTech

Marcus Hutchins, better known as MalwareTech, has been sentenced to "time served" and one year of supervised release for developing and selling the Kronos banking malware. Yes, Hutchins will not go to prison, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller ruled today in Milwaukee County Court,...

Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty to Planting 'Logic Bomb' in Spreadsheets

A former Siemens contractor has pledged guilty in federal court Friday to secretly planting code in automated spreadsheets he had created for the company over a decade ago that deliberately crashes the program every few years. David Tinley, a 62-year-old resident of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, w...

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,...

Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to 20-Year-Long Theft of Classified Data

A former National Security Agency contractor—who stole an enormous amount of sensitive information from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades—today changed his plea to guilty. The theft was labeled as the largest heist of classified government material in America'...