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British cryptocurrency traders robbed of Bitcoin at gunpoint
2018-01-29 20:59

Cryptocurrency heist are usually covert affairs that leave users with empty wallets, but not fearing for their life. Still, there are always some unlucky individuals who get the worst of...

British teenager hacked top ranking US officials using social engineering
2018-01-22 16:58

How did British teenager Kane Gamble, who at the time was only 15 years old, manage to break into email accounts of the CIA and DNI chiefs, as well as gain access to a number of sensitive...

British Teen Admits Trying to Hack CIA Chief
2017-10-06 17:06

A teenager admitted in a British court on Friday to trying to hack into the computers of top US officials, including former CIA chief John Brennan, from his home in the East Midlands region of...

Report: British Officials Knew of Marcus Hutchins Arrest Plans (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-21 17:03

Information Security Researchers Fault GCHQ for Failing to Help WannaCry 'Hero'A report claims British intelligence agency GCHQ knew in advance that the FBI planned to arrest WannaCry "hero"...

British Researcher Pleads Not Guilty to Creating Malware (Security Week)
2017-08-14 18:43

British cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins, known online as “MalwareTech,” has pleaded not guilty in a U.S. court to charges related to creating and selling a banking Trojan named Kronos. read more

Lawyer: British Hacking Suspect Will be Vindicated (Security Week)
2017-08-14 17:55

A lawyer for a 23-year-old British computer security researcher accused of creating malware to attack the banking system on Monday called him a "hero" and predicted he would be "fully vindicated."...

British Hacker Convicted in Germany of Major Cyber Attack (Security Week)
2017-07-28 13:16

A British man was handed a suspended jail sentence by a German court Friday for a massive cyber attack against Deutsche Telekom last year. read more

British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom (The Hackers News)
2017-07-25 03:07

An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers....

British Parliament Targeted by Brute-Force Email Hackers (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-26 12:18

Poor Password Security Blamed Following Compromise of Up to 90 AccountsMembers of Parliament in Britain have had their remote email access suspended following an apparent brute-force hack attempt...

Two British Men Arrested For Hacking Microsoft (The Hackers News)
2017-06-23 03:22

British police have arrested two men in the UK conspiring to hack into the computer networks of US tech giant Microsoft with plans to steal customers’ data from the software giant. The suspects —...