Micah Danney reports: You might think of hackers as people sitting at computers, but custom software applications, or bots, can be the ones doing the dirty work. Bots automate the business of hacking, tearing through massive troves of stolen account data, for example, or bombarding website login pages with passwords, probing for hits. Enter Unbotify,…
Month: July 2017
Russian-Born Cybercriminal Sentenced to Over Nine Years in Prison
A nearly decade-long member of several elite Russian-speaking cybercrime forums was sentenced yesterday to 110 months in prison for running a sophisticated scheme to steal and traffic sensitive personal and financial information in the online criminal underground. Alexander Tverdokhlebov, 29, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty on March 31 to wire fraud. Accordingly to court documents,…
Foreign hackers probe European critical infrastructure networks: sources
Mark Hosenball reports: Cyber attackers are regularly trying to attack data networks connected to critical national infrastructure systems around Europe, according to current and former European government sources with knowledge of the issue. The sources acknowledged that European infrastructure data networks face regular attacks similar to those which the Washington Post newspaper said on Sunday…
Dark Web Hosting Service Hacked, Some Data Was Stolen
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Deep Hosting — a Dark Web hosting service — admitted yesterday to suffering a major security incident during which “some sites have been exported.” The hack took place on Saturday afternoon and was carried out by a hacker calling himself Dhostpwned, the name he used when he spoke with Bleeping Computer earlier…
Data of over 120 million Jio customers leaked, claim reports
This has the makings of another AA situation where despite evidence, an entity initially claims that data were not compromised, only to have to walk back their claims later on. The New Indian Express reported: In what seemed to be the biggest data breach in India, a nondescript website called magicapk reportedly had access to data of…
Extradition hearing set for Karim Baratov, Canadian accused of aiding Yahoo hackers
Andrew Blake has the update on a case we’ve been watching: An extradition hearing has been set in the case of Karim Baratov, a Canadian man wanted by U.S. prosecutors in relation to an international cybercrime ring implicated in hacking over a half-billion Yahoo accounts. Attorneys for Mr. Baratov and the Justice Department will argue…