Rogue hardware used in attempted cyberheist at Santander bank branch
A criminal gang attempted to plant a rogue hardware device on the network of a Santander bank branch in London to remotely control a computer and steal money.
View ArticlePirate Bay co-founder's prison sentence for hacking lowered to one year on...
The Swedish Svea Court of Appeal has overturned a verdict against Gottfrid Svartholm Warg for intrusion and fraud against Nordea bank, but has upheld the verdict finding him guilty of hacking IT firm...
View ArticleFour suspected users of Silk Road Internet drug marketplace arrested in the UK
Four men have been arrested by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA) for drug offenses in connection with their involvement in Silk Road, an Internet underground marketplace for drugs and other...
View ArticleLaw enforcement hunt Silk Road sellers
The National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom arrested Tuesday four men suspected of selling illegal drugs on Silk Road, which U.S. law enforcement shut down last week with the capture of the alleged...
View ArticleConvicted hackers 'could be recruited' to help defend the UK from cyber attacks
Convicted computer hackers could be recruited to join the government's new Joint Cyber Reserve (JCR), the unit's chief has said. "
View ArticleLavabit encryption key ruling threatens Internet privacy, EFF argues
A court order forcing former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's email provider to turn over its master encryption key undermines a critical security feature used by major Internet services, the Electronic...
View ArticleEastern Europeans sought in online marketplace fraud scheme
Six Eastern European men are being sought by U.S. prosecutors for allegedly netting up to US$3 million by placing fraudulent advertisements for vehicles, motorcycles and boats on major online...
View ArticleBritish man charged with hacking NASA and US military computers
A British man has been charged with hacking into U.S. government computers and stealing personal data about thousands of employees, then bragging about it on Twitter.
View ArticleLiberty Reserve co-founder pleads guilty to money laundering
The co-founder of Liberty Reserve, a now defunct virtual currency that was widely favored by the criminal underground, pleaded guilty on Thursday to money laundering and other charges.
View ArticleSilk Road online drug marketplace resurfaces
The Silk Road online marketplace has resurfaced about a month after U.S. officials shut down the website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity service, and arrested among others a man...
View ArticleDOJ continues scrutiny of underground market sellers, arrests arms vendor
The U.S. Department of Justice is scrutinizing sellers on underground online marketplaces, and on Thursday said federal agents had arrested one person for alleged illegal weapons sale on underground...
View ArticleUS judge sentences Anonymous hacker to 10 years in prison
A member of the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a geopolitical analysis firm.
View ArticleSix more arrested in breathtaking $45 million ATM theft
Six more alleged participants were arrested Monday in a US$45 million global ATM fraud, including one man who was photographed stuffing $800,000 into a suitcase, federal prosecutors in New York said.
View ArticleSilk Road defendant deemed flight risk, denied bail
A New York federal court denied bail on Thursday to Ross William Ulbricht, the 29-year-old accused of running the Silk Road underground marketplace, deeming him a flight risk and a danger to the...
View ArticleDOJ right not to prosecute Assange, say press freedom advocates
The U.S. Department of Justice has made the right decision to not prosecute WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange for publishing leaks from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, if a...
View Article'ZeroAccess' click-fraud botnet disrupted, but not dead yet
Microsoft and law enforcement agencies said Thursday that they disrupted a botnet that defrauded online advertisers of US$2.7 million a month but that the malicious network hasn't been completely...
View ArticlePayPal DDoS attackers plead guilty, some may walk free
Anonymous members, charged with a distributed denial-of-service attack on PayPal, entered a plea Thursday that could see some of them walk free at sentencing next December.
View Article12 suspected cybercriminals arrested in Russia along with Blackhole creator
Thirteen people, including the creator of Blackhole, a popular exploit tool used to infect computers with malware, were arrested and charged in Russia with creating and participating in a criminal...
View ArticleHacker sentenced to 18 months for peddling computer access to US national...
A Pennsylvania man who hacked into multiple corporate, university and government computer networks and tried to sell access to them, including supercomputers from a U.S. national security laboratory,...
View ArticleMost iPhone users have activation lock enabled, survey finds
Four out of five iPhone users have enabled a feature that allows them to locate, lock and wipe their phones if they are lost or stolen, according to the results of a survey by the San Francisco...
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