Peter Williams, 39, an Australian national, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today in connection with selling his employer’s trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker, the Justice Department announced today. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets. The material, stolen over a three-year period from the U.S. defense contractor where he…
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Resource: Insider Threat reports
On a daily or weekly basis, DataBreaches highlights insider wrongdoing incidents and the harm they can cause. For more comprehensive compilation and analysis of the topic, readers may be interested in the Insider Threat Incidents For May 2025 report produced by the National Insider Threat Special Interest Group and Insider Threat Defense Group. Their previous…
Operation Heart Blocker: Disruption action deals blow to criminal cyber network HeartSender
During a disruption action on January 29, 2025, HeartSender servers and domains were seized by various police services. HeartSender is the name of a group of phishing software makers. The Cybercrime Team of the East Brabant police unit started an investigation at the end of 2022, after phishing software was found on the computer of…
Law enforcement continues efforts to disrupt cybercrime forums and services
Law enforcement has been busy. As reported yesterday, Cracked and Nulled forums were seized along with services associated with them financially. Two suspects were arrested in Spain. Today, DOJ issued two press releases. The first was about yesterday’s seizures: Cracked and Nulled Marketplaces Disrupted in International Cyber Operation The Justice Department today announced its participation…
Justice Department Seizes Cybercrime Website and Charges Its Administrators
Three Administrators Charged and Cryptocurrency Seized The Justice Department today announced the seizure of PopeyeTools, an illicit website and marketplace dedicated to selling stolen credit cards and other tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud, and unsealed criminal charges against three PopeyeTools administrators: Abdul Ghaffar, 25, of Pakistan; Abdul Sami, 35, of Pakistan; and Javed…
DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
Bill Toulas reports: The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka “booters” or “stressers,” to…