DoJ Indicts 14 North Koreans for $88M IT Worker Fraud Scheme Over Six Years The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted 14 nationals belonging to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) for their alleged involvement in a long-running conspiracy to violate sanctions and commit wire Read more…
Telco engineer spying on employer for Beijing gets 4 years • The Register A 59 year-old Florida telco engineer was sentenced to 48 months in prison after he served as a spy for China and provided Beijing with details like his employer’s cybersecurity, according to the US Department of Justice. Read more…
Guardsman gets 15 years after leaking secret info on Discord • The Register A former Air National Guard member who stole classified American military secrets, and showed them to his gaming buddies on Discord, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jack Teixeira, 22, joined the service in September Read more…
Criminal crypto launderer gets 12.5 years in prison • The Register The operator of the longest-running money laundering machine in dark web history, Bitcoin Fog, has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in US prison. Roman Sterlingov, 36, a Russian-Swedish national, was also ordered to repay more than Read more…
Bitcoin Fog Founder Sentenced to 12 Years for Cryptocurrency Money Laundering Nov 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The 36-year-old founder of the Bitcoin Fog cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for facilitating money laundering activities between 2011 and 2021. Roman Sterlingov, a dual Read more…
Vulnerable instances of Log4j still being used nearly 3 years later Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in our sister publication SC Magazine UK. Almost three years after the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability, 13% of active Log4j installations are running vulnerable versions. According to new research by Sonatype, while 13% Read more…
T-Mobile pays $16 million fine for three years’ worth of data breaches T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $15.75 million fine and improve its security in a settlement over a series of data breaches over three years that affected tens of millions of customers. “T-Mobile suffered data breaches in 2021, Read more…
U.S. Sentences 31-Year-Old to 10 Years for Laundering $4.5M in Email Scams The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has sentenced a 31-year-old to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million through business email compromise (BEC) schemes and romance scams. Malachi Mullings, 31, of Sandy Springs, Georgia pleaded Read more…
Ebury Botnet Malware Compromises 400,000 Linux Servers Over Past 14 Years A malware botnet called Ebury is estimated to have compromised 400,000 Linux servers since 2009, out of which more than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023. The findings come from Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which characterized it as one Read more…
Dutch Court Sentences Tornado Cash Co-Founder to 5 Years in Prison for Money Laundering A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the defendant was redacted in the verdict, it’s known that Alexey Pertsev, a Read more…