U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day in 81,000 Sophos Firewalls The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao), who is said to have worked at Sichuan Silence Information Read more…
Feds seek to grill Kansas City man with hacking charges A man from Kansas City could be smoked after he was indicted on criminal hacking charges. Federal prosecutors allege that 31-year-old Nicholas Michael Kloster victimized three local companies in a series of revenge and personal financial gain attacks. He faces Read more…
SEC Charges 4 Companies Over Misleading SolarWinds Cyberattack Disclosures Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananRegulatory Compliance / Data Breach The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four current and former public companies for making “materially misleading disclosures” related to the large-scale cyber attack that stemmed from the hack of SolarWinds Read more…
U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft’s services in June 2023. The Read more…
U.S. Charges Three Iranian Nationals for Election Interference and Cybercrimes U.S. federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed criminal charges against three Iranian nationals who are allegedly employed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their targeting of current and former officials to steal sensitive data. The Department of Justice (DoJ) Read more…
U.S. Charges 7 Chinese Nationals in Major 14-Year Cyber Espionage Operation The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday unsealed indictments against seven Chinese nationals for their involvement in a hacking group that targeted U.S. and foreign critics, journalists, businesses, and political officials for about 14 years. The defendants include Read more…
South Korean Citizen Detained in Russia on Cyber Espionage Charges Russia has detained a South Korean national for the first time on cyber espionage charges and transferred from Vladivostok to Moscow for further investigation. The development was first reported by Russian news agency TASS. “During the investigation of an espionage case, a Read more…
U.S. Charges Iranian Hacker, Offers $10 Million Reward for Capture The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday unsealed an indictment against an Iranian national for his alleged involvement in a multi-year cyber-enabled campaign designed to compromise U.S. governmental and private entities. More than a dozen entities are said to Read more…
DoJ Charges 19 Worldwide in $68 Million xDedic Dark Web Marketplace Fraud Jan 08, 2024NewsroomFinancial Fraud / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it charged 19 individuals worldwide in connection with the now-defunct xDedic Marketplace, which is estimated to have facilitated more than $68 million in fraud. In Read more…