The hacker that has been using 9k zombie computers to attack Google, Skype and Pokemon Go, was sent to jail. The creator of this attack, Alex Bessel aged 21, has been doing this since he was 14 years old, attacking major companies, from his house in Toxteth, Liverpool. The Birmingham…
There is a reason there has been an increase in cyber attacks since anyone can access hacking tools – Same goes for Todd Michael Gori from North-Carolina. Who doesn’t want to get hired at a firm of his or her choice? Apparently, some individuals take it too seriously and use…
On Thursday (1 December), the Justice Department sentenced Seleznev to additional jail time for his role in a $50m-cyberfraud ring and defrauding banks of $9m through the computer hacking scheme between October 2009 and 2013. Cybercriminals use aliases to operate anonymously on the dark web, parts of the internet reached using special…
Criminal hacking is nothing new, but this case has it all: religion, bitcoin, and ransomware. It’s hard to turn away. Unfortunately real people and their lives were impacted, along with the early reputation of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. Praise the Lord, Pass the Code It’s a criminal enterprise stretching…
The U.S. District Court for Central District of California has sentenced Russian national Dmitry Fedoseyev to 33 months in prison in a large-scale cyber fraud case. The defendant was also ordered to pay $232,000 in damages, according to the court documents obtained by RAPSI. The court found Fedoseyev guilty of…
US authorities on Thursday accused a Chinese national visiting the US of providing malware that has been linked to the theft of security clearance records of millions of US government employees. Yu Pingan of Shanghai was arrested on Monday at Los Angeles International Airport after a federal criminal complaint accused…
Jason Needham, 45, of Arlington, Tennessee was sentenced last week to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release for hacking his former company’s FTP server and the email account of one of his former colleagues. Needham did all the hacking after he left his former employer, Allen…
The Russian “internationally sought ‘mastermind’ of a crime organisation” accused of laundering more than $4bn in bitcoin, including funds obtained from the hack of failed bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, has been arrested in Greece. A US jury indicted Alexander Vinnik on Wednesday after his arrest in a small beachside village…
Accused Yahoo hacker Karim Baratov is going ahead with a hearing to fight his extradition to the United States, but only if his legal team can’t reach a resolution with U.S. officials in the interim. Wednesday marked the deadline for when the 22-year-old’s lawyer had to tell a Hamilton court…
A court in Moscow sentenced Vladimir Anikeev to two years in prison on Thursday for leaking the hacked correspondence of senior Kremlin officials and members of the Russian elite. Mr Anikeev had earlier pled guilty to being the ringleader of the shadowy online collective Shaltai-Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, in a…
A US man has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison after being found guilty of an audacious hacking scheme in which he used a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) to covertly delete a slew of sensitive computer files belonging to his former security company employer. After resigning from Florida-based…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A Pakistani man has been sentenced to four years in prison for laundering nearly $20 million as part of an international computer and telephone hacking scheme. Muhammad Sohail Qasmani, formerly of Bangkok, Thailand, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He was sentenced to…
A Florida man was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison for running a bitcoin exchange that is suspected of laundering money for a group of hackers who targeted publishing and financial firms as part of a complex securities fraud. Anthony Murgio, 33, admitted in January that he ran Coin.mx…
Sunny Nehra would give YouTube tutorials on responsible hacking and his Facebook page sharing similar tips had amassed 10,000 followers But it has been alleged that the 24-year-old engineering dropout could not resist the lure of ‘easy money’ and targetted international online shoppers He is now in judicial custody after…
British police announced today they arrested two suspects part of an international group that hacked into Microsoft’s network. The two suspects are a 22-year-old man from Lincolnshire and a 25-year-old man from Bracknell. The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) arrested the two this morning, searched their homes for…
A 42-year-old Montgomery County man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for hacking computers that caused a business disruption to municipal water utilities, prosecutors said Thursday. Adam Flanagan, of Bala Cynwyd, had pleaded guilty in March to two counts of unauthorized access to a…
Already slated to remain in federal lockup until his 80s, a Florida man received an 18-month prison term on Monday for hacking into the Clinton Foundation — a sentence effectively canceled out by his prior child pornography crimes. Two years ago, a Secret Service investigation traced 400,000 attempts to break…
Two New York men will spend more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to an identity theft scheme. Jhan Luis Mejia Marcelino, 27, and Odanys Orlando Rojas, known as “El Fuerte,” 39, both of the Bronx, N.Y., were sentenced Thursday to 61 months each for their roles in…
A Cameroonian man was sentenced in federal court for helping run a $2 million airline ticket hacking scheme that targeted customers travel technology companies, including one in Cobb County. Eric Donys Simeu, 32, was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison for his involvement in an online phishing…
Two Maryland Army National Guard soldiers have been convicted of using stolen credit and debit card information to shop at Air Force and Army Exchange Service stores and local businesses around the state in 2014 and 2015. On June 1, Spc. James Stewart, 27, was found guilty of conspiracy to…
