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The FBI apprehended the suspect Trevor Graves, age 22 at the close of October, in Denver, his hometown. According to an FBI arrest warrant, the teen planted device keyloggers on several school computers. Graves had help from other classmates. One would plant the keylogger, while the another would attend class and verify a teacher had […]
Sean Tiernan, 29 from Santa Clara, California was given 24 months probation on October 30th for his involvement in developing a massive spam botnet that infected more than 77,000 devices to send spam and make money for his college fee. The good news for Tiernan is that he is not facing any prison time for his crime since […]
On Friday a New Town, Massachusetts based man called Ryan Lin was arrested for cyberstalking after his VPN logs were provided by PureVPN. Lin was accused of cyberstalking his ex-roommate 24-year old Jennifer Smith. Initially, the case was handled by the Waltham Police department, but it was then transferred to the FBI [PDF]. According to the […]
On October 2nd, an unknown group sent death threats to an Iowa based Johnston Community School District forcing it to close some of its schools. The messages sent to parents via text included physically harming their kids and even killing them. According to an official statement from Johnston Community School District “Around 8 p.m. on the evening of October 2, individual students […]
Email scams have become so common nowadays that every other day there’s a new one. The only difference is the way scammers try create genuine looking emails so that recipients are lured into opening them and clicking on the malicious attachment. There is a new email scam in which residents in Connecticut, United States are […]
WikiLeaks Revealed a new document of CIA Secret operations called “ExpressLane” that conducts against CIA’s information sharing Service Partners (liaison services) like NSA,DHS ,and FBI. These Secret operation Performing for collecting the BioMetric Information around the World by helping of CIA’s own biometric collection system Branch called OTS (Office of Technical Services). Few days before CIA Hacking Tool Revealed, […]
By now you might be aware of Marcus Hutchins, the hero who halted WannaCry ransomware and was arrested by the FBI at Las Vegas airport when he was about to catch a flight back to London, his hometown. The reason for the arrest was his alleged involvement in developing and distributing Kronos banking malware that stole […]
He is not allowed to access the “Kill Switch” he created to stop WannaCry ransomware from spreading. 23-year-old Marcus Hutchins known for protecting thousands of users and business from WannaCry ransomware infection has pleaded not guilty over the accusation blaming him for his role in developing and distributing Kronos banking malware between 2014 and 2015 that […]
On Monday, US authorities announced the arrest of a suspect who used Tor to disguise his online identity and coerce underage female victims into sending sexually explicit images and videos in a tactic commonly referred to as “sextortion.” According to court documents, the FBI managed to catch the suspect in June 2017 after it created […]
Authorities believe he is part of a larger bomb-threat-for-hire scheme on the Dark Web Jewish centers received over a hundred bomb threats this year due to which there was chaos among local organizations. These incidents raised concerns within the US as it generated a sentiment that anti-Semitic violence in the country was on the rise. […]
As you might know, 23-year-old Marcus Hutchins (@MalwareTechBlog on Twitter) who once made the news for stopping WannaCry ransomware attack was arrested by the FBI in Las Vagas while he was attending the BlackHat and DefCon hackers conferences. The bureau charged him with developing and distributing Kronos banking malware and stealing banking details of the user in the […]
An IT security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @MalwareTechBlog (real name Marcus Hutchins) has been detained by the law enforcement authorities in the United States. Hutchins, who is visiting States to attend Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacker conventions in Las Vegas, Nevada was arrested for unknown reasons Hutchins is the researcher who “saved” the world […]
Who doesn’t want to buy a fully equipped FBI surveillance van having facilities like video and audio recording equipment and even a toilet at the rear side? Of course, one would give away anything to own such a vehicle. Apparently, this dream come true as a North Carolina based man Ginter Senfeldas announced the auction […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Europol and Dutch National Police have seized two of the most popular Dark Web marketplaces including AlphaBay and Hansa. According to Europol, “the infrastructure of an underground criminal economy responsible for the trading of over 350 000 illicit commodities including drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware.” AlphaBay Marketplace […]
Muhammad Sohail Qasmani, a 49-year-old Pakistan was sentenced to four years of imprisonment after he was discovered to have hacked into the internal phones systems of U.S companies and made $19.6 million in revenue. The million-dollar hack Although there have been more brutal hacking schemes by groups that are still out on the loose, this […]
Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of Kaspersky Labs, is ready to share the source code of the software that his company develops – He wants the authorities to audit his company’s security products amid claims that it has deep ties with the Russian government. In an interview with The Associated Press, he stated that he wanted to […]
Playpen, an illegally operated website that distributed child pornography in different parts of the world, had its founder sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment after the FBI identified who he was. Almost 900 members of a global ‘dark web’ pedophile ring in the United States and Europe have been arrested after a two-year investigation. What exactly […]
Short Bytes: The U.S. law enforcement agencies like the FBI are using modified BitTorrent clients to catch child pornography offenders. FBI loads the known child porn torrent links in these special clients and catches the people who share child porn using their IPs and trackers. In the recent past, many men have faced lengthy prison […]
The Russian banking giant Alfa announced, in a press statement, that hackers targeted its cyber infrastructure in a large-scale DNS Botnet attack. The purpose appears to have been to make it seem as though the bank had been communicating with the Trump Organization. The bank is now asking U.S. to assist it to uncover the […]
After being fired, this sys-admin used VPN to hack and plant his own software and cause a $1.1 million loss to his employer Getting a pink slip is a bad news for anybody. Some take it in the stride while others take to Twitter and Facebook to rant about it. Very few are likely to go […]
Cocker Hill’s Police Department has revealed that its server was infected with ransomware and therefore, the department had to lose digital evidence from the past few years. Cocker Hill is a small community situated in southwest Dallas, Texas. As per the reports, the Police department of Cocker Hill lost digital data from as far as […]