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LockBit Ransomware Hacker Ordered to Pay $860,000 After Guilty Plea in Canada
A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ wit...
FBI's Most-Wanted Zeus and IcedID Malware Mastermind Pleads Guilty
A Ukrainian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to his role in two different malware schemes, Zeus and IcedID, between May 2009 and February 2021. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov aka Vyacheslav Igoravich Andreev, father, and tank, 37, was arrested by Swiss authorities in October 2022 and...
Dark Web Drug Lord Pleads Guilty, Forfeits $150M Cryptocurrency
By Waqas Banmeet Singh, an Indian national, was arrested in London, England, on April 26, 2019, and extradited to the United States on March 19, 2023. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark Web Drug Lord Pleads Guilty, Forfeits $150M Cryptocurrency...
Russian Hacker Vladimir Dunaev Pleads Guilty for Creating TrickBot Malware
A Russian national has been found guilty in connection with his role in developing and deploying a malware known as TrickBot, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ announced. Vladimir Dunaev, 40, was arrested in South Korea in September 2021 and extradited to the U.S. a month later. "Dunaev develope...
Operator of Major Proxy Botnet ‘IPStorm’ Arrested, Pleads Guilty in US
By Waqas The FBI arrested the operator of the IPStorm botnet, a Russian-Moldovan national, in Spain. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Operator of Major Proxy Botnet IPStorm Arrested, Pleads Guilty in US...
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...