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...

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...

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...