As seen on Darknet News (EN): Group-IB founder Ilya Sachkov sentenced (https://t.me/vchkogpu/40233) to 14 years in prison for high treason The Moscow City Court sentenced to 14 years in prison the founder of Group-IB Ilya Sachkov. As reports (https://lenta.ru/news/2023/07/26/sachkovvv/) to Lenta.ru, he will serve his sentence in a strict regime colony. It is clarified that…
Author: Dissent
Presumably the largest Dutch user of the Genesis Market arrested
Who knew that the Netherlands was such a hotbed of cybercrime? This week, the police reported: Barendrecht – In the international investigation “Operation Cookie Monster”, a 32-year-old Dutchman who lives in Brazil was arrested after intensive investigation. This happened on Tuesday 18 July in Barendrecht. Because the man was in complete restraint after his arrest,…
NL: Investigation into arms trade leads to suspected cybercriminal
July 24 — as seen on OM.nl: Analysis of residual information from an investigation into arms trade led to the arrest of a 21-year-old man from Amsterdam at the beginning of this month. The Public Prosecution Service suspects the man of, among other things, years of fraud, theft, computer trespass and money laundering. According to the Public…
Rush Health Must Face Suit Over Health-Info Sharing With Google
Christopher Brown reports: Rush System for Health must defend a proposed class action alleging it shared health information of patients using its patient portal with Google Inc. and other third parties, in breach of its contract with patients and in violation of the Illinois Eavesdropping Act. Marguerite Kurowski successfully stated a claim for breach of contract regarding…
UK: Ambulance patient records system hauled offline for cyber-attack probe
Lindsay Clark reports: Several UK NHS ambulance organizations have been struggling to record patient data and pass it to other providers following a cyber-attack aimed at health software company Ortivus. In a statement, the Sweden-headquartered software vendor said it was subject to a cyber-attack on July 18 which hit UK customer systems within its hosted datacenter…
Yamaha confirms cyberattack after multiple ransomware gangs claim attacks
Jonathan Greig reports: Yamaha’s Canadian music division confirmed that it recently dealt with a cyberattack after two different ransomware groups claimed to have attacked the company. The Yamaha Corporation — different from the spun-off motorcycle division — is a Japanese manufacturing giant producing musical instruments and audio equipment. It is considered the world’s largest producer…