LockBit Affiliate Sentenced to 4 Years in Canada, Faces Extradition

By Deeba Ahmed Mikhail Vasiliev, a Russian-Canadian citizen faces four years in a Canadian prison and is likely to be extradited to the US after completing his sentence. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LockBit Affiliate Sentenced to 4 Years in Canada, Faces Extradition...

China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies

Plus: Russia was likely behind widespread GPS outages, Vault 7 leaker was sentenced, police claim to trace Monero cryptocurrency, and more...

GTA 6 Hacker from Lapsus$ Gang Sentenced to Hospital

By Deeba Ahmed From Teen Prodigy to Cybercriminal: The Fall of a Lapsus$ Gang Member and the Dangers of the Online Underworld. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GTA 6 Hacker from Lapsus$ Gang Sentenced to Hospital...

US Man Sentenced to Over 21 Years for Dark Web Distribution of CSAM

By Waqas You reap what you sow! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Man Sentenced to Over 21 Years for Dark Web Distribution of CSAM...

Silk Road’s Second-in-Command, Variety Jones, Gets 20 Years in Prison

Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, will spend much of the rest of his life in prison for his key role in building the world’s first dark-web drug market...

Mastermind Behind iSpoof Fraud Website Sentenced to 13 Years in the UK

By Waqas The founder of iSpoof is named Tejay Fletcher and is from the Western Gateway area of London, England. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mastermind Behind iSpoof Fraud Website Sentenced to 13 Years in the UK...

Ukrainian FIN7 Hacker Gets 5-Year Sentence in the United States

A 32-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for the individual's criminal work as a "high-level hacker" in the financially motivated group FIN7. Denys Iarmak, who worked as a penetration tester for the cartel from November 2016 through November 2018, ha...

Apple Exec Calls Mac Malware Levels Unacceptable Under Oath

Ireland's ransomware crisis continues, a Russian scammer gets sentenced, and more of the week's top security news...

SysAdmin of Billion-Dollar Hacking Group Gets 10-Year Sentence

A high-level manager and systems administrator associated with the FIN7 threat actor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Fedir Hladyr, a 35-year-old Ukrainian national, is said to have played a crucial role in a criminal scheme that compromis...

Mastermind of 2020’s top celebrity Twitter hack sentenced to 3 years

By Waqas At the time of the Twitter hack and his arrest, Graham Ivan Clark was 17, therefore, being sentenced as a “youthful offender.” This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mastermind of 2020s top celebrity Twitter hack sentenced to 3 years...

Dropbox, Linkedin hacker sentenced to 7 years in prison

By Deeba Ahmed Yevgeniy Nikulin aka Linkedin hacker, a Russian national was found guilty of hacking into LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dropbox, Linkedin hacker sentenced to 7 years in prison...

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...

Dispute moderator for Alphabay market sentenced to 11 years in prison

By Zara Khan Alphaybay marketplace was seized by authorities back in 2017. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dispute moderator for Alphabay market sentenced to 11 years in prison...

Russian hacker Aleksei Burkov jailed for 9 years in US

By Deeba Ahmed Russian computer hacker and cyber criminal Aleksei Burkov was... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian hacker Aleksei Burkov jailed for 9 years in US...

Reality Winner, N.S.A. Contractor, Sentenced to 5+ Years in Leak Case

A former NSA contractor, Reality L. Winner, has plead guilty on charges of leaking classified information, regarding a report on election meddling by Russian operatives in the 2016 U.S. elections. She was charged with espionage and was sentenced to more than five years in prison and three years o...

Yahoo! Hacker Sentenced; Coke Opens Up a Can of Data Breach

Fortune 500 breaches seem to be a theme this week. As the Yahoo attacker responsible for the company’s 500 million-account data breach has been sentenced, Coca-Cola disclosed an insider stole the information of 8,000 employees. A Canadian man who pleaded guilty last year to a “hacking-for-hire”...

British teen who hacked CIA chief gets two years in prison

By Waqas Kane Gamble, the founding member of Crackas with Attitude CWA This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: British teen who hacked CIA chief gets two years in prison...

Hacker Who Never Hacked Anyone Gets 33-Month Prison Sentence

A hacker who was arrested and pleaded guilty last year—not because he hacked someone, but for creating and selling a remote access trojan that helped cyber criminals—has finally been sentenced to serve almost three years in prison. Taylor Huddleston, 26, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pleaded guilty i...

Developer of NanoCore RAT that targeted Canada, US & Steam jailed

By Waqas The developer of NanoCore RAT remote access Trojan has been sentenced This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Developer of NanoCore RAT that targeted Canada, US & Steam jailed...

Dark Web’s worst pedophile sentenced to 32 years in prison

By Carolina Birmingham Crown Court UK has jailed a dark web pedophile for This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark Web's worst pedophile sentenced to 32 years in prison...