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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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