Joshua Philipp reports: Cyber mercenaries are breaching the systems of governments, financial institutions, critical infrastructure, and businesses, then selling access to them on a marketplace on the darknet, a hidden internet accessible only via specialized software. All of this is happening on a darknet black marketplace known as the CMarket or “Criminal Market,” formerly known as…
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Nanocore Coder Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Hackers
Kevin Poulsen reports: A self-taught Arkansas programmer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of aiding and abetting computer intrusion for intentionally selling a remote access tool to malicious hackers. Taylor Huddleston, 26, is the author of a program called Nanocore that’s been linked to intrusions in at least 10 countries, including an attack on…
UK: The National Crime Agency is sending hackers to rehab
Liat Clark reports: At the age of 13, Jake Davis was spending all day, every day on his bedroom computer at his Shetland Islands home. It would be another five years before he discovered an Anonymous chatroom and became part of the hacktivist group, going on to form his own group, Lulzsec. With his new…
UniCredit Says 400,000 Accounts Were Hacked, Exposing Data
Sonia Sirletti and Edward Robinson report: UniCredit SpA said hackers accessed about 400,000 client bank accounts in Italy, taking biographical and loan data in one of the biggest breaches in Europe to date. The breaches occurred in September and October of 2016 and June to July of this year, the bank said on Wednesday in…
Details of a million people across Yorkshire for sale on ‘dark web’
I am reluctant to link to this news report because of the damned stock hoodie image, but…. Ruby Kitchen and Chris Burn report: Across Yorkshire, the personal data of 942,609 people is listed for sale on an underground marketplace, with the highest number being in Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham. The illicitly obtained data – from…
Ukrainian “Casher” Sentenced for Role in Worldpay Hacking Scheme
Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a/k/a Vinchenco, a/k/a Vinch, a/k/a M.U.R.D.E.R.E.R, was sentenced on Thursday to 46 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his role as a “casher” (one who withdraws cash using stolen bank account information) in the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay. “The 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay was one…