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Teenager Arrested in Austria for Spreading Philadelphia Ransomware
Austrian police arrested a 19-year-old teenager from Linz for infecting the network of a local company with the Philadelphia ransomware.
- April 06, 2017
- 05:45 AM
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Raging Sysadmin Shuts Down Company Servers, Deletes System Files
A former sysadmin is facing up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 after he used a backdoor account and sabotaged his former employer on the day he was fired.
- March 31, 2017
- 04:43 AM
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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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Russian Hacker "Kolypto" Who Worked on Citadel Trojan Extradited to the US
Yesterday, a Russian national accused of helping develop the Citadel banking trojan was arraigned in front of a US judge for the first time, after being extradited from Fredrikstad, Norway.
- March 15, 2017
- 08:00 PM
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Sysadmin Says He Was "Authorized" to Damage Employer's Network
Michael Thomas, a systems administrators who was convicted in 2016 for destroying his employer's network before resigning his job, has filed an appeal in which his lawyers are arguing that in reality he actually was authorized to trash the company's IT network, in a criminal case that might change the way judges look at the CFAA.
- March 01, 2017
- 11:40 AM
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UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks on Deutsche Telekom
German police announced today that fellow UK police officers have arrested a suspect behind a serious cyber-attack that crippled German ISP Deutsche Telekom at the end of November 2016.
- February 23, 2017
- 11:33 AM
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Malware Operator Who Tried to Send Heroin to Brian Krebs Gets 41 Months in Prison
A malware operator and administrator of two online hacking forums was sentenced last week to 41 months in prison for his role in the distribution of the Zeus malware and for selling online the personal data he stole from infected victims.
- February 19, 2017
- 05:40 PM
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Revenge Hacks Cost Former Employee 34 Months in Prison, $1.1 Million in Damages
Brian P. Johnson, 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will have to spend the next 34 months in federal prison and pay $1,134,828 in damages after hacking his former employer shortly after being fired.
- February 17, 2017
- 11:46 AM
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Hacker Who Blackmailed Dozens of Female Victims Gets 8 Years in Prison
A New Hampshire hacker will spend the next eight years of his life in prison after he hacked into the email and social media accounts of dozens of females, including ten minors, and harassed and extorted victims into sending sexually explicit photos.
- February 13, 2017
- 04:32 PM
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Russia Arrests Nine More Involved with the Lurk Malware
Russian authorities arrested nine hackers they suspect of being involved in the distribution of the Lurk malware. This is the second wave of arrests after authorities apprehended 50 suspects in May 2016.
- February 08, 2017
- 06:00 AM
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Former FireEye Intern, Author of Dendroid RAT, Gets No Prison Time
A judge has sentenced Morgan C. Culbertson, 21, of Pittsburgh to three years probation, with 300 hours of community service and computer monitoring, for his role in creating and selling the Dendroid RAT (Remote Access Trojan).
- February 07, 2017
- 08:27 AM
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Two Arrested in London for Infecting Washington's CCTV Network with Ransomware
UK's National Crime Agency said today that officers arrested two suspects for hacking the Washington CCTV network and installing ransomware.
- February 03, 2017
- 05:15 AM
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Spanish Police Claim to Have Arrested Phineas Fisher - Hacking Team Hacker
Spain's National Police Corps have detained a man in the city of Salamanca, who they suspect of being Phineas Fisher, a famous hacker who has breached Gamma Group and Hacking Team, two companies that sold cyber-surveillance software to oppressive regimes.
- January 31, 2017
- 09:55 AM
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Russia Arrests Top Kaspersky Lab Security Researcher on Charges of Treason
Russian authorities arrested Ruslan Stoyanov, one of Kaspersky Lab's top-ranked security researchers, under article 275 of the Russian criminal code, which refers to treason.
- January 25, 2017
- 12:21 PM
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Another Misguided Teen Arrested for DDoSing High School Network
Police in Shelton, Connecticut have arrested a teenager for launching DDoS attacks on his/her former high school's network.
- December 30, 2016
- 07:00 PM
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Thai Police Arrests Nine Anonymous Hackers for Role in #OpSingleGateway Attacks
Thai officials announced on Monday the arrests of nine teenagers who have participated in cyber-attacks against government websites.
- December 27, 2016
- 09:25 AM
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Crook Who Used His Home IP Address for Banking Fraud Gets 5 Years in Prison
A UK judge sentenced a crook part of a cybercrime operation that used banking malware to five years in prison for stealing £840,000 ($1,035,000) from victims all over the world.
- December 21, 2016
- 04:05 AM
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FBI Arrests Customer of Xtreme Stresser DDoS-for-Hire Service
The FBI arrested this past week Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, 26, from La Canada, California, for launching DDoS attacks against Chatango, an online chat service.
- December 18, 2016
- 07:45 AM
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GozNym Malware Author Faces up to 100 Years in Jail
US authorities have indicted a man named Krasimir Nikolov, age 44, of Varna, Bulgaria, for his role in the distribution of the GozNym malware.
- December 17, 2016
- 04:30 AM
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Bayrob Malware Gang Had Elite Tactics, but They Still Got Caught Anyway
Romanian authorities have arrested and extradited to the US three nationals suspected of creating and distributing the Bayrob malware.
- December 16, 2016
- 06:26 PM
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Ransomware Author "Pornopoker" Arrested in Russia
Russian authorities have arrested a man suspected of writing and distributing ransomware. The suspect, whose name hasn't been released yet, goes by the nickname of Pornopoker.
- December 04, 2016
- 07:55 AM
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