Security News
A Russian national was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The man, Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, who will turn 33 next month, was charged in 2016 for using stolen employee credentials to access without authorization the systems of LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring.
A Maryland man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for hacking into and damaging the computers of his former employer. Employed at the company's Washington office, Stafford provided IT technical support to the organization's Washington, McLean, Virginia, and Baltimore offices.
A Nigerian hacker was sentenced to 36 months in prison in the United States for participating in a scheme that targeted government employees. According to court documents and statements, Ogunremi and co-conspirators perpetrated their scheme from at least July 2013 through December 2013, targeting "U.S. government agencies' email systems and General Services Administration vendors," the U.S. Department of Justice reveals.
A United Kingdom national who was a member of 'The Dark Overlord' hacking group was sentenced to five years in federal prison, the United States Department of Justice announced this week. Wyatt admitted in a U.S. district court in St. Louis that, starting 2016, he operated as a member of the hacking group known as The Dark Overlord, which compromised the networks of multiple companies, including those in the financial, healthcare, legal, film, and other sectors.
Bryan Connor Herrell, aka "Penissmith" and/or "Botah" has been sentenced to 11 years for his work as a sort of problem solver on the Alphabay crime market. A flaw in a library for the Go language could leave some applications vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.
A Colorado man was sentenced this week to eleven years in prison for his role as a moderator on the AlphaBay cybercrime marketplace. When taken down in 2017, AlphaBay was the most popular Dark Web marketplace for illegal products, and had over 400,000 users.
Tyler C. King, a 31-year-old from Dallas, Texas, was sentenced this week to 57 months in prison for crimes related to the hacking of an unnamed major tech company based in New York. According to the Justice Department, King gained access to the technology firm's systems in 2015 with the help of Ashley St. Andria, who at the time was an employee of the company.
The coder who created the massive Satori botnet of enslaved devices and a handful of other botnets will be spending 13 months behind bars, the US Attorney's Office of Alaska announced on Friday. In September 2019, he pleaded guilty to operating the Satori botnet, made up of IoT devices, and at least two other botnets; to running a DDoS-for-hire service; to cooking up one of the evolving line of botnets while he was indicted and under supervised release; and to swatting one of his former chums, also while on supervised release.
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for developing Mirai botnet variants that compromised hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide. The man, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, of Vancouver, Wash., was sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to creating and operating the Satori/Okiru, Masuta and Tsunami/Fbot botnets.
A man who developed distributed denial of service botnets based on the source code of Mirai was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Initially based on the publicly available Mirai source code, the botnets received additional capabilities over time, which increased their complexity and efficiency, the DoJ says.