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Suspect behind Snowflake data-theft attacks arrested in Canada
Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of having stolen the data of hundreds of millions after targeting over 165 organizations, all of them customers of cloud storage company Snowflake. According to Canada’s Department of Justice, Alexander “Connor” Moucka was taken into custody on Wednesday at the request of the United States and is scheduled to appear in court again today,…
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DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka “booters” or “stressers,” to seize infrastructure and arrest the operators. These platforms…
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Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN
The Federal Police of Brazil announced the arrest of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records that included sensitive personal information, including some Social Security numbers. The data from that hack, which came to light in August, was put for sale on the dark web in April by an entity identifying themselves as USDoD. As pointed…
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USDoD hacker behind National Public Data breach arrested in Brazil
A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil’s Polícia Federal in “Operation Data Breach”. USDoD, aka EquationCorp, has a long history of high-profile data breaches where he stole data and commonly leaked it on hacking forums while taunting the victims. These breaches include those on the FBI’s InfraGard, a…
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British man arrested over hack-to-trade scheme using email password resets
A British man faces extradition to the US after hacking Office 365 email accounts of executives in order to gain inside information for stock trades. The US Department of Justice said London-based Robert Westbrook began his hack-to-trade scheme in 2019 and ran for at least a year until 2020. By using the information collected, he made $3.75 million, according to…
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Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot targeting his employer. According to court documents, company employees received a ransom email titled “Your Network Has Been Penetrated” on November 25, around 4:44 PM EST. The email claimed that all IT…
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Telegram says CEO has ‘nothing to hide’ after being arrested in France
“It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the company says in an unnamed statement posted to its official channel in the Telegram app on Sunday. French officials have confirmed to multiple outlets that Durov was arrested as part of a police investigation into criminal activity taking place on the…
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Russian laundering millions for Lazarus hackers arrested in Argentina
The federal police in Argentina (PFA) have arrested a 29-year-old Russian national in Buenos Aires on charges of money laundering related to cryptocurrency proceeds belonging to the North Korean Lazarus hackers. The San Isidro Specialized Fiscal Unit in Cybercrime Investigations (UFEIC) collaborated with blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs to identify and locate the individual despite him using a complex transactions network…
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Hackers linked to $14M Holograph crypto heist arrested in Italy
Suspected hackers behind the heist of $14,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from blockchain tech firm Holograph were arrested in Italy after living a lavish lifestyle for weeks in the country. As announced over the weekend by Italy’s national police force (Polizia di Stato), four individuals suspected of cybercrime and money laundering have been living in a luxury villa in Salerno. Holograph…
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Suspected leader of ‘prolific’ Reveton ransomware group arrested and deported to US
Maksim Silnikau, the suspected leader of a ransomware group who went by the online alias of ‘J.P. Morgan’, has been arrested and extradited to the US. Silnikau and his group had been under investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) since 2015, with parallel investigations also being run by the US Secret Service (USSS) and the FBI. At the end…
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