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The hacker who targeted Xbox Live and PlayStation Network is facing 10 years in jail for knocking the gaming networks offline
A Utah-based hacker who targeted several of the big gaming networks, including PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, temporarily knocking them offline and boasting about it, is facing a 10-year jail sentence. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California announced earlier this week that Austin Thompson, 23, had entered a guilty plea for one count of damage to a protected computer following an investigation by the FBI's San Diego field office.
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Hackers erase 6,500 sites from the Dark Web in one attack
One of the most popular Dark Web hosting services – Daniel’s Hosting – was slaughtered last week when attackers hosed it clean of about 6,500 hidden services. The admin says they’re gone for good: he hasn’t even figured out where the vulnerability is yet. The administrator at Daniel’s Hosting is a German software developer named Daniel Winzen, who acknowledged the attack on the hosting provider’s portal. Winzen said that it happened on Thursday night, a day after a PHP zero-day exploit was leaked.
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"Down The Rabbit Hole I Go": How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies To Her Death
Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
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Ever used VFEmail? No? Well, chances are you never will now: Hackers wipe servers, backups in 'catastrophic' attack
The 'VF' now stands for 'virtually f*cked'
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Collection of 127 Million Stolen Accounts Up for Sale on the Dark Web
A batch of 127 million records stolen in data breaches affecting eight companies was put up for sale on the Dream Market marketplace by a seller who goes by the name of "gnosticplayers" and asking the equivalent of $14,500 in bitcoin for the entire collection.
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As Trump and Kim Met, North Korean Hackers Hit Over 100 Targets in U.S. and Ally Nations
North Korean hackers who have targeted American and European businesses for 18 months kept up their attacks last week even as President Trump was meeting with North Korea’s leader in Hanoi. The attacks, which include efforts to hack into banks, utilities and oil and gas companies, began in 2017, according to researchers at the cybersecurity company McAfee, a time when tensions between North Korea and the United States were flaring.
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Where Has All the Ransomware Gone?
In the world of digital thievery, a business model pivot is apparently underway. Over the past year cybercriminals have shifted their focus from ransomware attacks to so-called cryptojacking. That’s the marquee finding out of a new threat report published by IBM this week: Instances of the former money-making scheme were down 45% in 2018, while occurrences of the latter surged 450% in the same timespan, per IBM’s data.
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DDoS attacks may cost the UK economy £1bn per year
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may now cost the UK economy up to £1bn each year, representing a serious financial burden to businesses. A DDoS attack is when a network is flooded with more traffic than it can handle, meaning that it cannot be used. These attacks are often carried out using botnets, vast networks of internet-connected devices infected with malware.
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Porn website blackmailer jailed
A student who made hundreds of thousands of pounds blackmailing pornography website users with cyber attacks has been jailed. Zain Qaiser from Barking, London, used his programming skills to scam visitors to pornography sites around the world. Investigators have discovered about £700,000 of his profits - but his network may have made more than £4m. Qaiser, 24, was jailed for more than six years at Kingston Crown Court.
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As Europe builds its 5G network, security – not cost – must come first
On 26 March, the European commission published a recommendation designed to ensure the security of Europe’s 5G networks. You could be forgiven for having missed it, given that it was announced in what could hardly have been described as a “quiet EU news period”. However, the proposals are far-reaching and reflect the urgent need for coordinated action as we fast approach a technological tipping point of potentially profound significance.
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Serial cyberstalker who threatened women gets prison term
A man who posted a Facebook message threatening to kill "as many girls as I see" in retaliation for years of romantic rejection was sentenced Thursday to up to five years in prison. Judge Christine Johnson's decision to keep Christopher W. Cleary, 27, of Denver, behind bars in Utah went against a recommendation from Cleary's attorney and prosecutors to sentence him to probation so he could be returned to Colorado to serve prison time there for probation violations.
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A newly discovered hacking group is targeting energy and telecoms companies
There’s a new hacking group on the radar targeting telecommunications and oil and gas companies across Africa and the Middle East. Industrial security company Dragos, which discovered the group, calls it “Hexane,” but remains largely tight-lipped on its activities. The security company said Thursday, however, that the group’s activity has ramped up in recent months amid heightened tensions in the region since the group first emerged a year ago.
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The year-long rash of supply chain attacks against open source is getting worse
A rash of supply chain attacks hitting open source software over the past year shows few signs of abating, following the discovery this week of two separate backdoors slipped into a dozen libraries downloaded by hundreds of thousands of server administrators. The first backdoor to come to light was in Webmin, a Web-based administration tool with more than 1 million installations. Sometime around April of last year, according to Webmin developer Jamie Cameron, someone compromised the server used to develop new versions of the program.
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Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims
A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million (over £922,000) worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims. Grant West, a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted several well-known companies around the world since 2015 to obtain the financial data of tens of thousands of customers and then sold that data on underground forums in exchange for Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies.
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Avast and French police take over malware botnet and disinfect 850,000 computers
Joint private-law enforcement efforts shuts down two-year-old Retadup malware operation for good.
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281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested in Massive Global Sweep
The most sweeping takedown yet of so-called BEC scammers involved arrests in nearly a dozen countries.
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The New Target That Enables Ransomware Hackers to Paralyze Dozens of Towns and Businesses at Once
Cybercriminals are zeroing in on the managed service providers that handle computer systems for local governments and medical clinics.
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Hackers steal data for 15 million patients, then sell it back to lab that lost it
Canada’s biggest provider of specialty laboratory testing services said it paid hackers an undisclosed amount for the return of personal data they stole belonging to as many as 15 million customers.
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Antivirus company shuts down its data-harvesting arm after getting caught red-handed
Its CEO claims that the data collection was legal.
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New ransomware doesn’t just encrypt data. It also meddles with critical infrastructure
Over the past five years, ransomware has emerged as a vexing menace that has shut down factories, hospitals, and local municipalities and school districts around the world. In recent months, researchers have caught ransomware doing something that's potentially more sinister: intentionally tampering with industrial control systems that dams, electric grids, and gas refineries rely on to keep equipment running safely.
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