Demi Huang reports: Luxury assets worth more than $4.5 million have been forfeited after being linked to a previously convicted Queensland hacker. The haul, including a beachfront mansion, a 2019 black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and nearly 25 Bitcoin, was seized in April following a years-long investigation into stolen cryptocurrency and cyber hacking. The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) secured the…
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Fresno County fell victim to $1.6M phishing scam in 2020. One suspected has been arrested, another has been indicted.
Gabriel Dillard reports: Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday with six counts of wire fraud stemming from a $1.6 million phishing scheme against the County of Fresno. Jafaar September Nyangoro, 52, of Franklin, Tennessee, and Peter Bah Acha, 45 of Berlin, Germany, are accused of secretly gaining control of an email…
Ransomware Attack on ADP Partner Exposes Broadcom Employee Data
Tim Toole reports: A ransomware attack on Business Systems House (BSH), a Middle Eastern partner of payroll provider ADP, led to Broadcom employee data theft in September 2024. Data was leaked online in December, but Broadcom wasn’t informed until May 2025. The El Dorado ransomware group claimed responsibility for the breach, which occurred as Broadcom…
Anne Arundel ransomware attack compromised confidential health data, county says
Alex Mann reports: A February cyberattack compromised confidential data of patients who received care from the Anne Arundel County Department of Health, officials said. For the first time Thursday, county officials offered greater detail about the breach that temporarily closed county government buildings and disrupted several services for residents. Officials said in a news release that the…
Australian national known as “DR32” sentenced in U.S. federal court
In a somewhat surpising turn of events, the Australian hacker known as “DR32” learned his sentence in a Colorado federal court this week. It was not the sentence most people might have expected. David Kee Crees, a 26 year-old Australian, who had also been known online as “Abdilo,” “Notavirus,” “Surivaton”, and “Grey Hat Mafia’s Bitch,”…
Alabama Man Sentenced to 14 Months in Connection with Securities and Exchange Commission X Hack that Spiked Bitcoin Prices
There’s an update to a previously reported case from the Department of Justice: WASHINGTON – An Alabama man was sentenced today to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in the unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) social media account on X, formerly known as…