Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking…
US charges five linked to Scattered Spider cybercrime gang
The U.S. Justice Department has charged five suspects believed to be part of the financially motivated Scattered Spider cybercrime gang…
US charges Phobos ransomware admin after South Korea extradition
Evgenii Ptitsyn, a Russian national and suspected administrator of the Phobos ransomware operation, was extradited from South Korea and is…
US indicts Snowflake hackers who extorted $2.5 million from 3 victims
The Department of Justice has unsealed the indictment against two suspected Snowflake hackers, who breached more than 165 organizations using…
Lamborghini Carjackers Lured by $243M Cyberheist
The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August…
Hacker charged for breaching 5 companies for insider trading
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Robert B. Westbrook, a U.K. citizen, with hacking into the computer systems…
The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’
A cyberattack that shut down some of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the…
Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots
North Carolina musician Michael Smith was indicted for collecting over $10 million in royalty payments from Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music,…
Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins…
U.S. charges Karakurt extortion gang’s “cold case” negotiator
A member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware group has been charged in the U.S. for money laundering, wire fraud, and…