Judge drops hammer, dishes 7 years slammer for BEC and romance scammer

A Texas resident has finally paid the price for a heady mix of malicious mail antics. A combination of business email compromise BEC scams and romance fakeouts bagged them $2.2 million across roughly 6 years. This is quite a divergent portfolio of scamming activity. You may typically assume BEC...

John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison After Extradition Order

The antivirus pioneer and alleged cryptocurrency scammer was 75 years old...

John McAfee has Died in Spanish Prison, Reports

By Waqas Reportedly, John McAfee has died of suicide hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition to the United States. According to local Spanish media, Mr. John McAfee, the founder of antivirus company McAfee has died in a prison near Barcelona, Spain. 75-year-old McAfee...

Russian admin of cybercrime marketplace Deer.io jailed in US

By Deeba Ahmed Kirill Victorovich Firsov, a Russian Citizen has been jailed for 30 months in US prison for running popular cybercrime marketplace Deer.io. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian admin of cybercrime marketplace Deer.io jailed in US...

How a Former Netflix Exec Built a Brazen Bribery Scheme

The company’s ex-vice president of IT faces 20 years in prison for creating a pay-to-play environment with technology vendors...

Man Arrested for AWS Bomb Plot

A Texas man has been charged with plotting a bombing of Amazon Web Services in a quest to allegedly “kill off the internet.” Seth Aaron Pendley was arrested in Ft. Worth after allegedly attempting to get an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in a sting. The feds were alerted to...

18-Year-Old Hacker Gets 3 Years in Prison for Massive Twitter 'Bitcoin Scam' Hack

A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, will also serve an additional three years on...

McAfee Is Indicted for Altcoin Pump-and-Dumps and ICO Schemes

The 75-year-old antivirus entrepreneur faces up to 80 years in prison if convicted...

New Charges Derail COVID Release for Hacker Who Aided ISIS

A hacker serving a 20-year sentence for stealing personal data on 1,300 U.S. military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. The new charges have derailed plans to deport him under compassionate...

Russian Hacker Gets 12-Years Prison for Massive JP Morgan Chase Hack

A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old Russian to 12 years in prison for perpetrating an international hacking campaign that resulted in the heist of a trove of personal information from several financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other American...

Russian Who Hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

A Russian hacker who was found guilty of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring over eight years ago has finally been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that's more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 32, of Moscow hacke...

Prison communication app exposes database with millions of records

By Sudais Asif As atypical, the database was exposed without a password in a bid to be consistent with bad security practices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Prison communication app exposes database with millions of records...

Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years

A well-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow was sentenced on Friday to nine years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among it...

Coder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance

The programmer who became a flagrant drug lord and weapons trafficker was sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison...

Ukrainian Police Arrest Hacker Who Tried Selling Billions of Stolen Records

The Ukrainian police have arrested a hacker who made headlines in January last year by posting a massive database containing some 773 million stolen email addresses and 21 million unique plaintext passwords for sale on various underground hacking forums. In an official statement released on...

How a Hacker's Mom Broke Into a Prison—and the Warden's Computer

Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility’s defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother...

20 years prison for Romanian hackers who infected 400,000 computers

By Waqas Two Romanian hackers will be spending 20 and 18 years respectively in prison for infecting 400,000 computers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 20 years prison for Romanian hackers who infected 400,000 computers...

Russian Hacker Behind NeverQuest Banking Malware Gets 4 Years in U.S. Prison

A Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware to steal money from victims' bank accounts has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov, 34, was arrested by Spanish...

Global Crime Ring Bilks U.S. Military Members, Vets Out of Millions

Operators of a widespread identity-theft and fraud scheme have bilked thousands of U.S. servicemembers and veterans out of millions of dollars in stolen funds and Veterans Affairs VA benefits payments. Fredrick Brown pled guilty this week, revealing that in his role as a civilian medical records...

Interview With the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

In April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. That individual recently gave his first...