Latest Court Case news

Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist

Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a 29-year-old Nigerian national extradited from Canada to the United States last April, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering through business email compromise (BEC).
- Bill Toulas
- September 22, 2023
- 03:24 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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CEO guilty of selling counterfeit Cisco devices to military, govt orgs

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to importing and selling counterfeit Cisco networking equipment to various organizations, including education, government agencies, healthcare, and the military.
- Bill Toulas
- June 07, 2023
- 10:19 AM
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IT employee impersonates ransomware gang to extort employer

A 28-year-old United Kingdom man from Fleetwood, Hertfordshire, has been convicted of unauthorized computer access with criminal intent and blackmailing his employer.
- Bill Toulas
- May 23, 2023
- 11:22 AM
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Hacker ‘PlugwalkJoe’ pleads guilty to 2020 Twitter breach

Joseph James O'Connor, aka 'PlugwalkJoke,' has pleaded guilty to multiple cybercrime offenses, including SIM swapping attacks, cyberstalking, computer hacking, and hijacking high-profile accounts on Twitter and TikTok.
- Bill Toulas
- May 10, 2023
- 09:48 AM
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Russian hacker convicted of $90 million hack-to-trade charges

Russian national Vladislav Klyushin was found guilty of participating in a global scheme that involved hacking into U.S. computer networks to steal confidential earnings reports, which helped the criminals net $90,000,000 in illegal profits.
- Bill Toulas
- February 15, 2023
- 03:39 PM
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Fired admin cripples former employer's network using old credentials

An IT system administrator of a prominent financial company based in Hawaii, U.S., used a pair of credentials that hadn't been invalidated after he was laid off to wreak havoc on his employer.
- Bill Toulas
- September 29, 2022
- 04:45 PM
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Coinbase funds lawsuit against Tornado Cash cryptomixer sanctions

Coinbase announced on Tuesday that it is funding a lawsuit brought by six people in the U.S. against the Department of Treasury's for the sanctions on the Tornado Cash open-source cryptocurrency mixer platform.
- Bill Toulas
- September 09, 2022
- 02:45 PM
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Mobile store owner hacked T-Mobile employees to unlock phones

A former owner of a T-Mobile retail store in California has been found guilty of a $25 million scheme where he illegally accessed T-Mobile's internal systems to unlock and unblock cell phones.
- Bill Toulas
- August 02, 2022
- 11:02 AM
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Avaya sysadmin indicted for illegally generating, selling VoIP licenses

Three defendants who allegedly sold over $88 million worth of software licenses belonging to Avaya Holdings Corporation have been charged in Oklahoma, U.S., facing 14 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
- Bill Toulas
- June 29, 2022
- 02:44 PM
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Owner of ‘DownThem’ DDoS service gets 2 years in prison

Matthew Gatrel, 33, a citizen of Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for operating platforms offering DDoS (distributed denial of service) services to subscribers.
- Bill Toulas
- June 14, 2022
- 11:40 AM
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Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison

Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data.
- Bill Toulas
- May 14, 2022
- 11:18 AM
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Crypto robber who lured victims via Snapchat and stole £34,000 jailed

Online crypto scams and ponzi schemes leveraging social media platforms are hardly anything new. But, this gruesome case of a London-based crypto robber transcends the virtual realm and tells a shocking tale of real-life victims from whom the perpetrator successfully stole £34,000.
- Ax Sharma
- May 14, 2022
- 10:02 AM
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U.S. DoD tricked into paying $23.5 million to phishing actor

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the conviction of Sercan Oyuntur, 40, resident of California, for multiple counts relating to a phishing operation that caused $23.5 million in damages to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
- Bill Toulas
- May 02, 2022
- 08:45 AM
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REvil ransomware member extradited to U.S. to stand trial for Kaseya attack

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that alleged REvil ransomware affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, was extradited to the United States last week to stand trial for the Kaseya cyberattack.
- Bill Toulas
- March 10, 2022
- 01:23 PM
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Rideshare account hacker faces up to 22 years in prison

A man pleaded guilty to fraudulently opening rideshare and delivery service accounts using stolen identity information sold on dark web marketplaces.
- Bill Toulas
- December 22, 2021
- 02:51 PM
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Victims of $2 billion BitConnect fraud to get back $57 million

U.S. law enforcement authorities will start liquidating roughly $57 million worth of cryptocurrency seized from the now-defunct BitConnect crypto exchange to provide some restitution to defrauded investors.
- Bill Toulas
- November 17, 2021
- 11:02 AM
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Russian 'King of Fraud' sentenced to 10 years for Methbot scheme

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced a Russian man for operating a large-scale digital advertising fraud scheme called 'Methbot' ('3ve') that stole at least $7 million from American companies.
- Bill Toulas
- November 11, 2021
- 09:24 AM
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DOJ: Pirated sports streamer hacked accounts, extorted MLB

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged a man for illegally streaming MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL games via the web and hacking into sports leagues' customer accounts.
- Bill Toulas
- October 29, 2021
- 09:56 AM
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