FBI Threatens 'Zoom Bombing' Trolls With Jail Time

As reports of “Zoom bombing” explode, the FBI is cracking down on the issue with a new warning that web conference hijackers could face jail time. Authorities say that anyone who hacks into a teleconference meeting can be charged at the state and federal level. Charges can include the disruption ...

Silk Road Admin Pleads Guilty- Might Receive 20 Years Jail Time

By Waqas An Irish national Gary Davis, who is also known as Libertas, has pleaded guilty to charges related to drug trafficking and is now facing up to 20 years in prison. Davis is accused of running the infamous marketplace Silk Road and served as forum moderator and site administrator while he...

Hacker gets 14 years jail time for operating Scan4You malware scanning service

By Waqas Scan4You was a VirusTotal like platform used for malicious purposes. A 37-year old male from Riga, Latvia has received 14 years sentence for creating and running Scan4You, a counter antivirus service that aided malware developers to check detection rates of their malicious software. The...

6 years jail time for ‘one of the largest’ dark web drug dealer

By Carolina The 40-year-old David Ryan Burchard from Merced, a dark web vendor This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 6 years jail time for ‘one of the largest dark web drug dealer...

FBI raided Anonymous Hacker house, who exposed Steubenville Rapists

Another member of the hacker collective Anonymous has been unmasked this week. FBI raided the home of Deric Lostutter in April. Two laptops, flash drives, CD's, an external hard-drive, cell phones and an Xbox were reportedly seized during the raid. Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old from Winchester, ...

Three UK Men to Serve 13 Years for Phishing

Three individuals have been sentenced 13 years of jail time in the UK for carrying out cyberattacks on British and international banks. The men in question, Ayodeji John Kareem, 38, Vincent Alonge, 31, and Babatunde Fafore, 41, all plead guilty on July 8 to charges stemming from their arrests in...

Biden-Threat Suspect Faces Long Jail Time

Barry Ardolf, 45, of Blaine, Minnesota, had rejected a plea deal in connection to charges accusing him of sending Vice President Joe Biden a threatening e-mail from his neighbor’s computer, a computer he is accused of hacking. A federal grand jury substantially upped the ante against the computer...