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VPNFilter malware was part of a nasty botnet that infected over half a million devices in over 54 countries. Last Wednesday, The US Justice Department revealed how the FBI seized a domain that was hosting a botnet of 500,000 compromised home and office (SOHO) routers and network-access storage (NAS) devices in over 54 countries – These devices were developed by Linksys, TP-Link, MikroTik, and NETGEAR. […]
The suspect is CIA’s very own former engineer accused of handing over Vault 7 series documents to WikiLeaks. The government of United States has claimed to identify the suspect who allegedly stole a trove of data belonging to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing its hacking tools and secret cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, unsuspected users, and businesses […]
The 23-year-old cybersecurity expert, Marcus Hutchins (@Malwaretech on Twitter), who made headlines for identifying the kill switch for the nasty WannaCry ransomware attack preventing it from further spread has been charged in the United States for creating Kronos banking malware. In total, Hutchins has been charged with six counts of developing and distributing Kronos malware that stole […]
In a large-scale joint operation called “Operation Power Off”, the Dutch Police and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency alongside with Europol and several other law enforcement authorities have arrested the administrators of Webstresser, a cybercrime platform providing DDoS-for-hire service while its domain Webstresser.org has been seized. The arrested administrators were based in Canada, Croatia, Serbia, and […]
Kane Gamble, the founding member of Crackas with Attitude (CWA) hacking group has been sentenced to two years in prison for hacking high-profile government officials and systems in the United States. The notorious group successfully hacked the AOL account of CIA’s chief John Brennan, Verizon My FiOS account of James Clapper, email accounts of Obama’s senior advisor John Holdren and FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano. […]
Backpage was once the second largest classified advertising site after Craigslist. The infamous classified advertising website Backpage along with its affiliate domains have been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Those visiting the website right now can see a banner notice uploaded by the United States government. The notice that is being currently displayed on […]
Believe it or not but in the US, police are now using fingerprints of dead suspects to unlock iPhones. Contrary to popular belief that law enforcement agencies only recently started using dead person fingerprints for unlocking iPhones, Forbes has reported that this has been going on for years. In its latest report, Forbes confirmed that […]
In a joint operation, Europol along with the law enforcement authorities from Belarus, Romania, Taiwan, Spanish Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have arrested an ATM hacker who happened to be the mastermind behind the large-scale cyber attacks against hundreds of banking and financial institutions around the world. More: Jackpotting attacks hit U.S. ATMs; spit out cash in seconds […]
“Password spraying” attack gave Mabna group access to 32TB of diverse research data. Today, the Department of Justice announced charges against nine Iranian nationals connected to the Mabna Institute, a company an FBI spokesman said was “created in 2013 for the express purpose of illegally gaining access to non-Iranian scientific resources through computer intrusions.” The stolen data was largely […]
Adrian Lamo, a hacker who was once in the news for informing the FBI about Chelsea Manning, the WikiLeaks whistleblower, has passed away at the young age of 37 but the cause of Adrian’s death is yet to be determined. The news of Adrian’s death was announced by his father Mario Lamo-Jiménez in a Facebook post […]
He had been facing a life prison sentence in the United States if found guilty, a fate which he has said could lead him to taking his own life. An autistic British man accused of hacking into US government agencies won his appeal against extradition to the United States on Monday but was told he […]
Lauri Love, known For hacking US government computers will not be extradited. The British hacker Lauri Love was arrested in October 2013 for hacking high-profile targets in the United States including government computers. on September 16, 2016, however, a Westminster Magistrates’ Court judge decided to extradite Lauri from the United Kingdom to the United States to face charges where he […]
Another day, another phishing scam – This time, hackers are impersonating Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to conduct malware and phishing scam. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified a new phishing scam where hackers have created a fake federal online crime complaint portal (Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on social media to deceive users into giving […]
Another day, another phishing scam – This time Harris County, Texas wired almost $900,000 after falling for a phishing email. In normal circumstances, cybercriminals take advantage of the lack of knowledge of their victims but in this phishing attack, they have touched new lows by making a profit out of the devastation caused by hurricane Harvey. Transfer $888,000 “she” said It all started […]
The 40-year-old David Ryan Burchard from Merced, a dark web vendor California has been sentenced to six years in prison for selling illegal drugs on several dark web marketplaces including Silk Road, AlphaBay, Agora, and Abraxas. Burchard who went by the online handle of “Caliconnect” on the dark web was arrested in March 2016, and initially was pleaded not guilty […]
The allegations that Russia hacked the 2016 elections in the United States are known to many but now biometric data of millions of American citizens may or may not be at risk of being compromised as software used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and 18,000 other American law enforcement agencies to […]
The U.S Department of Homeland Security, along with the FB, has come out with a statement that hackers who reportedly have ties with North Korea could still gain backdoor access to many government systems/networks and business networks. The Guardian reports-“US authorities have warned that malware developed in North Korea is still lurking in many computer […]
The federal government on Tuesday issued an alert detailing the North Korean government’s use of malware known as FALLCHILL, warning that North Korea has likely been using the malware since 2016 to target the aerospace, telecommunications, and finance industries. The alert — issued jointly by the FBI and the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), […]
John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old man from Minneapolis, MN has been charged with hiring cyber attackers to target his ex-employer with a year’s worth of “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attacks in July 2015 to September 2016. The targeted business, a point-of-sale system repair company Washburn Computer Group (WCG) was where Gammell worked. According to US federal prosecutors, Gammell hired three people […]
Turns out all they ought to do was ask Apple for help. In a comment the tech titan has issued to the media, it said it “quickly reached out to the FBI after receiving from their press conference on Tuesday that prosecutors were trying to access a mobile phone.” Cupertino extended its assistance and even […]
An ex-wrestler and student of the University of Iowa is accused of conducting a cheating scheme to obtain test copies in advance and changing his and his classmates’ grades multiple times. The FBI has arrested the 22-year old Trevor Graves on federal computer-hacking charges for which he faces at least ten years in jail. Graves […]