A former manager at a telecommunications company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for accepting money to perform unauthorized SIM swaps that enabled an accomplice to hack customer accounts. […]
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Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021. […]
Russian-Canadian cybercriminal Mikhail Vasiliev has been sentenced to four years in prison by an Ontario court for his involvement in the LockBit ransomware operation. […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the unsealing of an indictment against Linwei (Leon) Ding, 38, a former software engineer at Google, suspected of stealing Google AI trade secrets for Chinese companies. […]
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on two individuals and five entities linked to the development and distribution of the Predator commercial spyware used to target Americans, including government officials and journalists. […]
How private is your internet address? Very, says the Supreme Court of Canada. Police can’t just walk into a company and demand a suspect’s IP address by saying a Canadian resident doesn’t have an expectation of privacy of that information, the court ruled today. An IP address is vital enough that every resident expects it […]
The Düsseldorf Police in Germany have seized Crimemarket, the largest German-speaking illicit trading platform on the internet, arresting six people, including one of its operators. […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has unveiled an indictment against Alireza Shafie Nasab, a 39-year-old Iranian national, for his role in a cyber-espionage campaign targeting U.S. government and defense entities. […]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued tax preparation giant H&R Block over the company’s deceptive “free” online filing advertising and for pressuring people into overpaying for its services. […]
Ukraine’s cyber police arrested a 31-year-old for running a cybercrime operation that gained access to bank accounts of American and Canadian users and sold it on the dark web. […]