On September 8, the “scattered LAPSUS$ hunters 4.0” Telegram channel posted: FBI and French LE, great job for the third time arresting the wrong person in France once again. DOJ please stop wasting your budget by flying your agents to France every time to make the WRONG arrest, as it’s almost the end of the…
Those readers who aren’t A-listers (including yours truly) may never have heard of Kering, but you may have heard of their high-end fashion brands: Gucci. Yves Saint Laurent. Bottega Veneta. Balenciaga. Alexander McQueen. Brioni. It is some of those fashion brands that are the subject of this post as they fell prey to attacks by…
Diogo Santos Coelho (aka “Omnipotent” of RaidForums) was arrested in January 2022 in the U.K. when he traveled there to visit his mother. For the past 3+ years, he has been in limbo while both the U.S. and Portugal seek his extradition. It has not been a straightforward matter legally. Far from it, actually. The…
The Helsinki Times reports: Aleksanteri Kivimäki, convicted of thousands of cybercrimes linked to the Vastaamo data breach, has been released from custody by the Helsinki Court of Appeal. The decision followed two days of testimony from Kivimäki, who denied all charges. The court cited his prolonged pretrial detention as the reason for release. He has…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) are pleased to announce the release of version 3.6 of the Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool. To help you make the most of these updates, ASTP and OCR are hosting live webinars on September…
There’s an update on a previously reported case: Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that Liridon Masurica (33, Gjilan, Kosovo), also known as “@blackdb,” has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Masurica faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been…