The Finnish Customs office took down the website and seized the servers for the darknet marketplace ‘Sipulitie’ where criminals sold illegal narcotics anonymously. […]
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Ukraine’s cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old man who operated a massive virtual private network (VPN) service, allowing people from within the country to access the Russian internet (Runet). […]
Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels will pay $52 million and create a comprehensive information security program as part of settlements for data breaches that impacted over 344 million customers. […]
An international law enforcement operation led to the arrest of one of the three administrators of the dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia,’ known for hosting ads for drug sales and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. […]
A 21-year-old man from Indiana named Evan Frederick Light pleaded guilty to stealing $37,704,560 worth of cryptocurrency from 571 victims in a 2022 cyberattack. […]
Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive nuclear information at risk over four years, from 2019 to 2023. […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Robert B. Westbrook, a U.K. citizen, with hacking into the computer systems of five U.S. public companies to access confidential earnings information and conduct insider trading. […]
The U.S. government has indicted a co-owner of a Minnesota IT company for his participation in an international conspiracy to sell forged license keys for networking devices. […]
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland has fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) €91 million ($100 million) for storing in plaintext passwords of hundreds of millions of users. […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced charges against two Russian nationals for operating billion-dollar money laundering services for cybercriminals, including ransomware groups. […]