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Hacker ‘PlugwalkJoe’ pleads guilty to 2020 Twitter breach
Joseph James O'Connor, aka 'PlugwalkJoke,' has pleaded guilty to multiple cybercrime offenses, including SIM swapping attacks, cyberstalking, computer hacking, and hijacking high-profile accounts on Twitter and TikTok.
- May 10, 2023
- 09:48 AM
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Russian hacker convicted of $90 million hack-to-trade charges
Russian national Vladislav Klyushin was found guilty of participating in a global scheme that involved hacking into U.S. computer networks to steal confidential earnings reports, which helped the criminals net $90,000,000 in illegal profits.
- February 15, 2023
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Fired admin cripples former employer's network using old credentials
An IT system administrator of a prominent financial company based in Hawaii, U.S., used a pair of credentials that hadn't been invalidated after he was laid off to wreak havoc on his employer.
- September 29, 2022
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Coinbase funds lawsuit against Tornado Cash cryptomixer sanctions
Coinbase announced on Tuesday that it is funding a lawsuit brought by six people in the U.S. against the Department of Treasury's for the sanctions on the Tornado Cash open-source cryptocurrency mixer platform.
- September 09, 2022
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Mobile store owner hacked T-Mobile employees to unlock phones
A former owner of a T-Mobile retail store in California has been found guilty of a $25 million scheme where he illegally accessed T-Mobile's internal systems to unlock and unblock cell phones.
- August 02, 2022
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Avaya sysadmin indicted for illegally generating, selling VoIP licenses
Three defendants who allegedly sold over $88 million worth of software licenses belonging to Avaya Holdings Corporation have been charged in Oklahoma, U.S., facing 14 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
- June 29, 2022
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Owner of ‘DownThem’ DDoS service gets 2 years in prison
Matthew Gatrel, 33, a citizen of Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for operating platforms offering DDoS (distributed denial of service) services to subscribers.
- June 14, 2022
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Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data.
- May 14, 2022
- 11:18 AM
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Crypto robber who lured victims via Snapchat and stole £34,000 jailed
Online crypto scams and ponzi schemes leveraging social media platforms are hardly anything new. But, this gruesome case of a London-based crypto robber transcends the virtual realm and tells a shocking tale of real-life victims from whom the perpetrator successfully stole £34,000.
- May 14, 2022
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U.S. DoD tricked into paying $23.5 million to phishing actor
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the conviction of Sercan Oyuntur, 40, resident of California, for multiple counts relating to a phishing operation that caused $23.5 million in damages to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
- May 02, 2022
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REvil ransomware member extradited to U.S. to stand trial for Kaseya attack
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that alleged REvil ransomware affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, was extradited to the United States last week to stand trial for the Kaseya cyberattack.
- March 10, 2022
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Rideshare account hacker faces up to 22 years in prison
A man pleaded guilty to fraudulently opening rideshare and delivery service accounts using stolen identity information sold on dark web marketplaces.
- December 22, 2021
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Victims of $2 billion BitConnect fraud to get back $57 million
U.S. law enforcement authorities will start liquidating roughly $57 million worth of cryptocurrency seized from the now-defunct BitConnect crypto exchange to provide some restitution to defrauded investors.
- November 17, 2021
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Russian 'King of Fraud' sentenced to 10 years for Methbot scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced a Russian man for operating a large-scale digital advertising fraud scheme called 'Methbot' ('3ve') that stole at least $7 million from American companies.
- November 11, 2021
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DOJ: Pirated sports streamer hacked accounts, extorted MLB
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged a man for illegally streaming MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL games via the web and hacking into sports leagues' customer accounts.
- October 29, 2021
- 09:56 AM
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Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police
A security engineer and ex-contributor to the open systems non-profit organization, Apperta Foundation, recently reported a data leak to them. In return, he gets contacted by their lawyers and eventually the police.
- March 25, 2021
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TrialWorks Ransomware Attack Disrupts Court Cases and Deadlines
TrialWorks, one of the top-rated providers of legal case management software for law firms and attorneys, became the victim of a ransomware attack earlier this month.
- October 27, 2019
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