May 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Social Media A U.K. national has pleaded guilty in connection with the July 2020 Twitter attack affecting numerous high-profile accounts and defrauding other users of the platform. Joseph James O'Connor, who also went by the online alias PlugwalkJoe, admitted to "his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer … [Read more...] about Mastermind Behind Twitter 2020 Hack Pleads Guilty and Faces up to 70 Years in Prison
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Russian Hacker Gets 12-Years Prison for Massive JP Morgan Chase Hack
A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old Russian to 12 years in prison for perpetrating an international hacking campaign that resulted in the heist of a trove of personal information from several financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other American companies. Andrei Tyurin was charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, … [Read more...] about Russian Hacker Gets 12-Years Prison for Massive JP Morgan Chase Hack
Russian Who Hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
A Russian hacker who was found guilty of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring over eight years ago has finally been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that's more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 32, of Moscow hacked into servers belonging to three American social media firms, including LinkedIn, … [Read more...] about Russian Who Hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
‘Satori’ IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
The United States Department of Justice yesterday sentenced a 22-year-old Washington-based hacker to 13 months in federal prison for his role in creating botnet malware, infecting a large number of systems with it, and then abusing those systems to carry out large scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against various online service and targets.According to court … [Read more...] about ‘Satori’ IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison
Silk Road Admin Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges
An Irish national has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators who helped run now-defunct dark web marketplace "Silk Road."Gary Davis, 31, of Wicklow, Ireland, was known as 'Libertas' on the Silk Road website, then-largest underground black marketplace on the Internet used by thousands of people to buy and sell drugs … [Read more...] about Silk Road Admin Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges
DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison
A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison.Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll," pledged guilty back in November 2018 after he admitted to being a part of DerpTrolling, a hacker group that was behind … [Read more...] about DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison