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Four FIN9 hackers indicted for cyberattacks causing $71M in losses

Four Vietnamese nationals linked to the international cybercrime group FIN9 have been indicted for their involvement in a series of computer intrusions that caused over $71 million in losses to companies in the U.S.
- Bill Toulas
- June 24, 2024
- 01:35 PM
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Five men convicted for operating illegal streaming site Jetflicks

A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted five men for their involvement in the operation of Jetflicks, one of the largest and most popular illegal streaming services in the United States.
- Bill Toulas
- June 21, 2024
- 11:20 AM
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Russian indicted for selling access to US corporate networks

A 31-year-old Russian national named Evgeniy Doroshenko has been indicted for wire and computer fraud in the United States for allegedly acting as an "initial access broker" from February 2019 to May 2024.
- Bill Toulas
- May 28, 2024
- 02:32 PM
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Tornado Cash cryptomixer dev gets 64 months for laundering $2 billion

Alexey Pertsev, one of the main developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency tumbler has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for his part in helping launder more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency.
- Bill Toulas
- May 15, 2024
- 09:02 AM
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REvil hacker behind Kaseya ransomware attack gets 13 years in prison

Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for his involvement in the REvil ransomware operation.
- Bill Toulas
- May 02, 2024
- 10:44 AM
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LockBit ransomware affiliate gets four years in jail, to pay $860k

Russian-Canadian cybercriminal Mikhail Vasiliev has been sentenced to four years in prison by an Ontario court for his involvement in the LockBit ransomware operation.
- Bill Toulas
- March 13, 2024
- 07:42 AM
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BTC-e server admin indicted for laundering ransom payments, stolen crypto

Aliaksandr Klimenka, a Belarusian and Cypriot national, has been indicted in the U.S. for his involvement in an international cybercrime money laundering operation.
- Bill Toulas
- February 02, 2024
- 10:33 AM
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DHS employees jailed for stealing data of 200K U.S. govt workers

Three former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees were sentenced to prison for stealing proprietary U.S. government software and databases containing the personal data of 200,000 federal employees.
- Bill Toulas
- January 29, 2024
- 10:31 AM
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US govt wants BreachForums admin sentenced to 15 years in prison

The United States government has recommended that Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the creator and lead administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums hacking forums, receive a sentence of 15 years in prison.
- Bill Toulas
- January 18, 2024
- 11:08 AM
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ShinyHunters member gets 3 years in prison for breaching 60 firms

The U.S. District Court in Seattle sentenced ShinyHunters member Sebastien Raoult to three years in prison and ordered a restitution of $5,000,000.
- Bill Toulas
- January 10, 2024
- 09:46 AM
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Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company.
- Bill Toulas
- December 12, 2023
- 10:02 AM
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Ex-Navy IT head gets 5 years for selling people’s data on darkweb

Marquis Hooper, a former U.S. Navy IT manager, has received a sentence of five years and five months in prison for illegally obtaining US citizens' personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web.
- Bill Toulas
- October 18, 2023
- 04:47 PM
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SSNDOB cybercrime market admin faces 15 years after pleading guilty

A Ukrainian man, Vitalii Chychasov, has pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and trafficking in unauthorized access devices through the now-shutdown SSNDOB Marketplace.
- Bill Toulas
- July 27, 2023
- 02:08 PM
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Bulletproof hoster gets 3 years for pushing Ursnif, Zeus malware

Romanian national Mihai Ionut Paunescu, aka "Virus," was sentenced to three years in prison by a Manhattan federal court for running a bulletproof hosting service and facilitating the distribution of the Gozi (Ursnif), Zeus, SpyEye, and BlackEnergy malware.
- Bill Toulas
- June 13, 2023
- 10:52 AM
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Former Ubiquiti dev who extorted the firm gets six years in prison

Nickolas Sharp, a former senior developer of Ubiquiti, was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing company data, attempting to extort his employer, and aiding the publication of misleading news articles that severely impacted the firm's market capitalization.
- Bill Toulas
- May 11, 2023
- 10:55 AM
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Woman gets 66 months in prison for role in $3.3 million ID fraud op

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have announced today that a 24-year-old woman from Melbourne, arrested in 2019 for her role in large-scale, cyber-enabled identity theft crimes, was sentenced to five years and six months in prison.
- Bill Toulas
- December 16, 2022
- 12:03 PM
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Cybercriminals jailed for cryptocurrency theft, death threats

On Wednesday, two Massachusetts men were sentenced to more than two years in prison each for stealing cryptocurrency in SIM swapping attacks and hijacking their victims' social media accounts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 20, 2022
- 08:05 AM
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Student jailed for hacking female classmates’ email, Snapchat accounts

On Thursday, a Puerto Rico judge sentenced a former University of Puerto Rico (UPR) student to 13 months in prison for hacking over a dozen email and Snapchat accounts of female colleagues.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 14, 2022
- 03:04 PM
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The Week in Ransomware - October 7th 2022 - A 20 year sentence

It was a very quiet week regarding ransomware news, with the most significant news being the sentencing of a Netwalker affiliate to 20-years in prison.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 07, 2022
- 06:14 PM
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Netwalker ransomware affiliate sentenced to 20 years in prison

Former Netwalker ransomware affiliate Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and demanded to forfeit $21.5 million for his attacks on a Tampa company and other entities.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 04, 2022
- 04:10 PM
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