Man Gets Suspended Sentence for Hate-Fueled UK Train Stations WiFi Hack

British citizen John Wik sentenced for Islamophobic WiFi hack at UK train stations in Sept 2024. Learn about…...

Hacker Who Tried to Blackmail Apple for $100,000 Sentenced in London

A 22-year-old man who claimed to have access to more than 300 million iCloud accounts00 million iCloud accounts—and threatened to wipe them unless Apple paid a ransom—has pleaded guilty in London to attempting to blackmail the company. In March 2017, the attacker from North London said he was a...

Suspended Sentence for Mirai Botmaster Daniel Kaye

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity identified U.K. citizen Daniel Kaye as the likely real-life identity behind a hacker responsible for clumsily wielding a powerful botnet built on Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things IoT devices for use in large-scale online attacks...

Employee Stole 'Yandex Search Engine' Source Code, Tried to Sell it for Just $29K

A former employee of Russian search engine Yandex allegedly stole the source code and key algorithms for its search engine site and then attempted to sell them on the black market to fund his own startup. Russian publication Kommersant reports that Dmitry Korobov downloaded a type of software...

TinKode sentenced by a Romanian court and $120000 Fine

"Cernaianu Manole Razvan" akka TinKode, the Romanian behind attacks against NASA, Oracle, the Pentagon, and U.S. Army, was sentenced this week to a two-year suspended sentence, according to local media reports and was ordered to pay damages totalling more than US$120,000. He was arrested in Janua...