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,”…
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…
Alexander Martin reports: Japan on Friday enacted a new law that would permit the country’s authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations to ensure threats are suppressed before they cause significant damage. The new law, which was first mooted in 2022, is intended to help Japan strengthen its cyber defense “to a level equal…
There’s an update to breach previously reported here in 2023. Brian Krebs reports: In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in…
On March 10, 2025, Vision Upright MRI notified HHS of a breach affecting 23,031 patients, but there was nothing posted on their website to explain the breach. A press release issued by HHS today provides some explanation for the incident that involved the medical images of 21,778 patients. From their release: OCR initiated a compliance…
Defendants Spent $4M at Nightclubs, $9M on Exotic Cars WASHINGTON – A four-count superseding indictment, unsealed today in U.S. District Court, charges 12 additional people – Americans and foreign nationals – for allegedly participating in a cyber-enabled racketeering conspiracy throughout the United States and abroad that netted them more than $263 million. Several were arrested…