Here are some monikers that old-timers may remember even though it’s been a few years since this site has reported on them: UGNazi, JoshTheGod, and CosmoTheGod.
Read Brian Kreb’s report, Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi, to find out more about what has happened over the past years and allegations that some active duty local law enforcement officers in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department were on the criminal’s payroll. Krebs’ post begins:
A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.