An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’

As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come...

LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Charged for Billions in Global Ransomware Damages

A dual Russian and Israeli national has been charged in the United States for allegedly being the developer of the now-defunct LockBit ransomware-as-a-service RaaS operation since its inception in or around 2019 through at least February 2024. Rostislav Panev , 51, was arrested in Israel earlier...

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes

And the first case on the docket may well be Russia’s cyberattacks against civilian critical infrastructure in Ukraine...

4 times students compromised school cybersecurity

For many students school can be a tough time, and we've all heard stories about bored or frustrated kids compromising school cybersecurity to change grades. Sometimes the students are celebrated, and other times it ends in them being expelled from school, or even prosecuted. Of course, these acts...

Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct now Amobee have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and...

Journalist won’t be indicted for hacking for viewing a state website’s HTML

A journalist incorrectly branded as a "hacker" by the governor of Missouri wont be prosecuted "for hacking". This was a quick and foreseen win for St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud after a prosecutor from Cole County dismissed Missouri Governor Mike Parsons criminal charges against him...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in CloudVision Management Platform

Ltd. focuses on serving users in the government, public prosecutors and law enforcement, education, finance, medical care, enterprise and other industries, "cloud, end, AI, development platform," a four-in-one cloud video solution. There is an unauthorized access vulnerability in the cloud video...

Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability

On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov...

Reforming the UK’s Computer Misuse Act

The UK Home Office recently ran a Call for Information to investigate the Computer Misuse Act 1990 CMA. The CMA is the UK’s anti-hacking law, and as Rapid7 is active in the UK and highly engaged in public policy efforts to advance security, we provided feedback on the issues we see with the...

On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death

Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital and the patient dying. The police wanted to prosecute the ransomware attackers for negligent homicide, but the details were more...

Amazon Fires Employee Who Leaked Customer Names, Emails

Amazon has fired an employee who shared customers’ names and email addresses with a third party. An Amazon spokesperson told Threatpost that it has systems in place to limit and control access to information, and processes in place for identifying and investigating suspicious behavior. These...

Cybercrime Gang Behind GozNym Banking Malware Dismantled

The cybercrime network behind the GozNym malware, used to siphon $100 million out of its victims, has been dismantled in a massive international investigation, according to authorities. Europol said on Thursday that they are charging 10 members of the GozNym criminal network with spreading the...

The Law Being Used to Prosecute Julian Assange Is Broken

Opinion: Julian Assange is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a minimally defined statute that can have maximally destructive consequences...

Canadian Police Charge Operator of Hacked Password Service Leakedsource.com

Canadian authorities have arrested and charged a 27-year-old Ontario man for allegedly selling billions of stolen passwords online through the now-defunct service Leakedsource.com. The now-defunct Leakedsource service. On Dec. 22, 2017, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP charged Jordan Evan...

British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom

An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers. According to reports in the German press, the British man, who was using online monikers "Peter Parker...

How Dutch Police Decrypted BlackBerry PGP Messages For Criminal Investigation

The Dutch police have managed to decrypt a number of PGP-encrypted messages sent by criminals using their custom security-focused PGP BlackBerry phones and identified several criminals in an ongoing investigation. PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can...

Hack That Fueled Insider Trading Ring Netted $100M

Hackers based in Ukraine and Russia allegedly broke into servers belonging to several newswires and passed sensitive information onto an underground trading ring as part of what’s being referred to as an unprecedented new level of insider trading. Prosecutors claimed Tuesday that corporate...

Legal Line Between Security Research, Cybercrime Murky

LAS VEGAS — In his keynote address at Black Hat Wednesday, Dan Geer, the CISO of In-Q-Tel and a respected security luminary noted that the industry has never been closer to the forefront of corporate and government policy decision making. Despite this, security research remains a dangerous busine...

Alleged BlackShades Malware Co-Author pleads not Guilty

A Swedish man accused of being involved in the creation of the malicious software used to infect over half a million systems in more than dozens of countries, has pleaded not guilty in New York on Thursday to computer hacking charges brought against him. Alex Yucel, 24, who is the co-author of th...

LulzSec Hacker Sabu Sentenced to Time Served

The LulzSec hacker-turned-informant known as Sabu avoided any more jail time and was sentenced to time served on Tuesday for his part in leading several of the group’s attacks on high-profile targets. Hector Monsegur walked out of court in New York a free man, thanks to his cooperation with the F...