The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the organization’s servers. The defendant faces up to 15 years in prison. Police officers determined that a 35-year-old native…
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Two Men Sentenced to Prison for Aggravated Identity Theft and Computer Hacking Crimes
There’s an update to a previously reported case. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, yesterday: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, United States District Judge Frederic Block sentenced Sagar Steven Singh, also known as “Weep,” to 27 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and aggravated identify theft. On…
Rajkot civic body’s GIS website hit by cyber attack, over 400 GB data feared stolen
Adan Khan reports: A suspected cyber attack has targeted the website of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC), triggering concerns over the possible theft of sensitive civic data. The breach came to light recently, sparking fear among residents, as officials suspect that over 400 GB of data may have been compromised. According to sources, the stolen…
Taiwan’s BitoPro hit by NT$345 million cryptocurrency hack
Charlotte Lee reports: Taiwan’s second-largest crypto platform BitoPro suffered a cyberattack on May 8, losing an estimated NT$345 million (US$11.5 million), blockchain analyst ZachXBT revealed Monday. The Financial Supervisory Commission’s Securities and Futures Bureau confirmed the security breach and announced that BitoPro will be required to issue an official public statement regarding the incident, CTEE reported. Operator…
Beyond the Pond Phish: Unraveling Lazarus Group’s Evolving Tactics
Unchained reports: Researchers at crypto exchange BitMEX on Friday said that they had uncovered several critical missteps that North Korean state-sponsored hacker group Lazarus had made during its campaigns. Those lapses included exposed IP addresses, an accessible Supabase database, and tracking algorithms. One finding was a rare slip-up in which a hacker likely revealed their real IP…
Fraudsters, murderers, students: who the GRU assembled a team of hacker provocateurs from and why it failed
The Insider reports: In September 2024, the FBI published an indictment against a group of hackers working for GRU Unit 29155, the same military unit that became famous for poisoning Skripal in Salisbury. It has long been known that the GRU has hacker units, The Insider was the first to prove this back in 2017, and then it was…