Justin Jouvenal has an update on a case previously reported on this site in May: Twin brothers from Springfield have pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to a series of computer hacking schemes that involved stealing credit card information, breaking into State Department computers and obtaining data from a private company. Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter,…
Category: Government Sector
FBI Cyber Division Bulletin on Tools Reportedly Used by OPM Hackers
Public Intelligence reports: The following bulletin was released to private industry partners June 5, 2015. According to an article from Reuters, one of the remote access tools (RAT) described in the bulletin, called Sakula, is directly linked to the hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that was disclosed earlier this month. Other publications have directly…
ATF executive investigated by DOJ for possible employee data breach
Evan Perez reports: The Justice Department is investigating whether an executive at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives improperly accessed and downloaded the personal information of other employees, according to law enforcement officials briefed on the probe. The investigation centers on whether Scott Sweetow, deputy assistant director for strategic intelligence and information at ATF…
CA: Rogue court clerk may have altered records in more than 1,000 cases
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: An investigation of altered court files in Orange County, California, is leading to one rogue clerk, according to legal counsel for the county court system. Lawyer Jeffrey Wertheimer tells the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register that the clerk appears to have altered more than 1,000 DUI and misdemeanor traffic cases since 2010…
Cleaning Up the Federal Cyber Debacle
If federal agencies wish to provide effective oversight of the private sector, then they should start by looking in the mirror. — Rep. Will Hurd, former CIA officer and former adviser to FusionX Read his full OpEd on WSJ.
FL man pleads guilty in SIRF scheme involving identity info from a Florida Department of Children and Families database
He was indicted in April for his role in a scheme involving Cora Eutsay, a CareerSource South Florida employee accused of misusing access to the Department of Children and Families’ ACCESS Florida System. Now Kyron Jonathan Nedd, 22, of Miami Gardens, has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in violation of Title 18,…