Jason Meisner reports: Maryland man sobbed in court Tuesday as a federal judge sentenced him to three months in prison for his role in a “hacker-for-hire” service that shut down company websites and harassed thousands of unsuspecting people around the world. […] Before he was sentenced, Buchta read a brief statement to the court apologizing…
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Fancy Bears hackers linked to foiled cyber attack on UK Anti-Doping Agency
Sean Ingle reports: The UK Anti-Doping Agency has foiled an attempted cyber attack that tried to access confidential medical and drug‑testing data, the Guardian can reveal. The attack, which took place over the weekend, required Ukad’s servers to be rebooted Monday. But its experts are now confident that no data was lost or compromised. Although the…
Titanium Stresser programmer whose tools caused chaos must repay £70,000 or face further jail time
A computer hacker who was jailed after setting up a business which caused chaos all over the world must pay back nearly £70,000 or face another two years behind bars. Adam Mudd was just 16 when he created his Titanium Stresser program, which was used to carry out more than 1.7 million attacks on websites including…
Nine Iranians Charged With Conducting Massive Cyber Theft Campaign on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
An Indictment charging Gholamreza Rafatnejad, 38; Ehsan Mohammadi, 37; Abdollah Karima, aka Vahid Karima, 39; Mostafa Sadeghi, 28; Seyed Ali Mirkarimi, 34; Mohammed Reza Sabahi, 26; Roozbeh Sabahi, 24; Abuzar Gohari Moqadam, 37; and Sajjad Tahmasebi, 30, all citizens and residents of Iran, was unsealed today. The defendants were each leaders, contractors, associates, hackers-for-hire or…
How long does it take for a MongoDB to be compromised? Hint: not very long.
Kromtech Security has done a follow-up on reports from last year about misconfigured MongoDB installations having their data deleted and replaced by “ransom” messages. The attackers were having a field day back then, but what is happening now? So Kromtech decided to employ a honeypot. It went live on March 1, 2018. And here’s what happened…
Surgeon believes hackers ‘led warplanes to Syrian hospital’ after targeting his computer after remote surgery
This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Hayley Dixon, Aisha Majid, and Steven Swinford report: A British surgeon who helped carry out operations in Aleppo fears that the hacking of his computer led to a hospital being bombed by suspected Russian warplanes. In a world first, renowned consultant David Nott gave remote instructions via…