Kevin Reynolds reports: The five-year prison term for Russian Alexander Vinnik, convicted in France on money laundry charges, was upheld by the Court of Appeal of Paris on Thursday, according to a report by TASS. Vinnik, an alleged operator of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, was sentenced last December on the charge of money-laundering. Other charges,…
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Slilpp Marketplace Disrupted in International Cyber Operation
Slilpp was a Marketplace for Allegedly Stolen Online Account Login Credentials, Offering Over 80 Million Stolen Credentials for Over 1,400 Victim Providers Worldwide The Justice Department today announced its participation in a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and Romania to disrupt and take down the infrastructure of the online…
FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gangs
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members from all over the world for more than three years. Named Operation Ironside (AFP) / Trojan Shield (FBI, Interpol) on Monday, law enforcement agencies from Australia, Europe, and the US conducted house searches and arrested thousands of…
Stanford student who recovered $27,000 for ransomware victims talks ethical hacking
Yash Dalmia reports: As a high school student, Jack Cable ’21 hacked the Pentagon through a government-sponsored program created to find bugs in Air Force security networks. Upon arriving at Stanford, he set up a bug bounty program and worked with large enterprises to secure their digital systems. In April, he hacked ransomware, saving victims over $27,000. Certainly, Cable isn’t your…
Update: Alexander Zhukov Convicted of Defrauding American Companies of Millions of Dollars Through Digital Advertising Scheme
There’s an update to the case against Alexander Zhukov, extradited here in 2019 from Bulgaria. Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, announced: Earlier today, Aleksandr Zhukov, a Russian national, was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn of four counts of a superseding indictment charging him with wire fraud…
The FBI will feed hashes of hacked passwords directly into Have I Been Pwned
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Australian security researcher Troy Hunt announced today that he granted the US Federal Bureau of Investigation a direct line to upload new content into Have I Been Pwned, a website that indexes data from security breaches. The HIBP creator said that when the FBI discovers password collections during their investigations, they will upload…