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As an ordinary teenager, he became a key link in the chain of scammers. In St. Petersburg, law enforcement agencies conducted a successful operation to detain a 16-year-old young man suspected of illegally accessing computer information. This young man was discovered thanks to the joint efforts...

The young man made amends to the victims, and they did not demand harsh punishment from the court. Leninsky District Court sentenced Alexey Murzin, a hacker who infected computer clubs to mine, to three years of restriction of freedom. This means that he will have to observe a curfew, report...

The company fights against unauthorized access to its systems. As a result of an unprecedented cyberattack, attackers managed to penetrate the critical software systems of the technology giant Microsoft, which first became known in January. However, according to the latest data released...

The Antropovsky district prosecutor supported the state prosecution in the criminal case against a 19-year-old local resident. He was found guilty of committing two crimes under Part 2 of Article 273 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal distribution of malicious computer...

A Vologda hacker who deliberately de-energized 38 villages in the region a year ago will appear in court in a criminal case, the penalty for which provides for up to eight years in a penal colony, the press service of the Russian FSB department for the Vologda region told TASS. "The...

The cyber police exposed a hacker who used malware to steal personal data of residents of Canada and the United States, and then sold it to people interested in embezzling the victims savings. The attacker contacted customers using a Russian phone number. I received payment in bitcoins and...

Despite the prison sentence and another arrest, the 50-year-old Frenchman is enjoying life. As SecurityLab reported in February of this year, a certain Gary Bowser received three years in prison for participating in the hacker group Team Xecutor, which sold hacked Nintendo consoles on which you...

A cybersecurity researcher who previously reported several vulnerabilities in Apple products is accused of infiltrating Apple's internal infrastructure and defrauding the corporation out of $2.5 million in gift cards and electronics. According to court documents, despite Noah Roskin-Frazi's...

In 43 seconds, you can find out everything that the user is hiding. Hacking BitLocker protection in 43 seconds using hardware costing less than $10 has become possible, which calls into question the reliability of one of the most popular methods of encrypting hard drives in Windows. Since its...

Detailed analysis of the November Cloudflare security breach. Cloudflare revealed details of an incident in which allegedly spies, acting on behalf of the state, gained access to Atlassian's internal system using stolen data as a result of a security breach at Okta in October. According to...

The first step to autonomous space missions and further exploration of the universe. The first-ever 3D printer powered by molten metal will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) this week. This event opens a new chapter in the history of space exploration, giving astronauts the...

Aktau City Court of Mangystau region sentenced 25-year - old Elnur A. to three years in prison and banned him from engaging in activities in the field of informatization and communications for the same period. According to the materials of case No. 4710-23-00-1 / 527 dated December 13, 2023...

It took law enforcement more than two years to "beat out" a confession from a cybercriminal. A Canadian court has sentenced a man to two years in prison for allegedly distributing ransomware and carrying out malicious attacks on individuals, businesses and government agencies. Matthew Filbert...

Trustwave specialists have revealed the secret of the popularity of the new PhaaS platform. Researchers from Trustwave reported on the steady growth of PhaaS-a platform called Greatness, aimed at collecting Microsoft 365 user credentials. Greatness is sold to other cybercriminals as a...

After tracking the ransomware in hot pursuit, the specialists managed to restore the entire chain of actions in the blockchain. Finnish law enforcement agencies managed to trace Monero transactions to identify the ransomware hacker, despite the anonymous features of the cryptocurrency. In...

Security services have exposed in Kharkov a member of the Russian hacker group “People's Cyber Army of the Russian Federation,” which is controlled by the FSB. The attacker corrected enemy fire in the city and prepared cyber attacks on the websites of Ukrainian authorities. At the direction of...

A commercial organization from the Choysky district of the Altai Republic suffered from the actions of an unknown person who gained access to the company’s computer equipment. After the hack, the hacker extorted 1.5 million rubles from the company for unlocking personal computers (PCs). The...

Under the procedural guidance of prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General, operatives from the Cyber Police Department and investigators from the Main Investigation Department of the National Police, together with colleagues from Europol, exposed the hacker during an international...

Sebastien Raoul has committed many crimes and doesn't want to upset his family again… On January 9, a 22-year-old French citizen was sentenced to three years in prison for participating in the ShinyHunters hacker group. Sebastien Raoul, better known as Sezyo Kaizen, was extradited to the...

A Nigerian man has been arrested in Ghana for a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam that cost a US charity more than $7.5 million. Olusegun Samson Adejorin was arrested on December 29 on charges of fraud against two charities in Maryland and New York. Adejorin is charged with email fraud...