Cybercrime is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
The FBI arrested a 21-year-old for publishing fake Steam games containing malware that infected thousands and drained some victims’ crypto wallets.
Two teenage hackers were jailed for hacking Transport for London, a move authorities say severely disrupted the Scattered Spider group, after causing about £29 million in losses.
US indicts three Russians and two bulletproof hosting providers for aiding cybercriminals and profiting from attacks, tied to $62 million in victims’ losses.
Florida ransomware negotiator Angelo Martino was sentenced to over five years in prison with DOJ seizing more than $10 million in crypto and assets; he and two others allegedly helped deploy BlackCat ransomware, extorting US victims by about $1.2 million in a single operation, highlighting the blurred line between security professionals and cybercriminals and the ongoing enforcement sweep.
Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials and was sentenced to probation after publicly bragging about it on Instagram.
Google is suing a Chinese cybercrime group, Outsider Enterprise, for AI-assisted scams affecting hundreds of thousands of victims, with 2.5 million text messages sent over two weeks.
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