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Wikileaks' Julian Assange Released from U.K. Prison, Heads to Australia
2024-06-25 05:03

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the U.K. and has departed the country after serving more than five years in a maximum security prison at Belmarsh for what was described by the...

Laundering cash from healthcare, romance scams lands US man in prison for a decade
2024-05-22 18:00

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Dutch Court Sentences Tornado Cash Co-Founder to 5 Years in Prison for Money Laundering
2024-05-15 08:28

A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the...

CEO who sold fake Cisco devices to US military gets 6 years in prison
2024-05-02 22:01

Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to government, health, education, and military organizations worldwide. These devices all had "Counterfeit Cisco labels, stickers, boxes, documentation, and packaging, all bearing counterfeit trademarks registered and owned by Cisco that made the goods falsely appear to be new, genuine, and high-quality devices manufactured and authorized by Cisco."

REvil hacker behind Kaseya ransomware attack gets 13 years in prison
2024-05-02 14:44

Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for his involvement in the REvil ransomware operation. Law enforcement linked the long-term REvil affiliate to the Kaseya supply-chain ransomware attacks, which impacted over 1,500 companies worldwide.

FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison
2024-03-28 16:19

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Admin of major stolen account marketplace gets 42 months in prison
2024-03-15 16:07

Moldovan national Sandu Boris Diaconu has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for operating E-Root, a major online marketplace that sold access to hacked computers worldwide. "The victims span the globe and all industries, as well as at least one local government agency in Tampa. Many victims were subject to ransomware attacks, and some of the stolen credentials listed on the Marketplace were linked to stolen identity tax fraud schemes."

Duo face 20 years in prison over counterfeit iPhone scam
2024-02-21 18:30

Two Chinese nationals are facing a maximum of 20 years in prison after being convicted of mailing thousands of fake iPhones to Apple for repair in the hope they'd be replaced with new handsets. The Department of Justice says the pair submitted upwards of 5,000 "Inauthentic" iPhones to the tech giant "Intending to cause a loss of more than $3 million to Apple" between May 2017 and September 2019.

Zeus, IcedID malware gangs leader pleads guilty, faces 40 years in prison
2024-02-15 23:05

Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, one of the heads of the notorious JabberZeus cybercrime gang, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his leadership roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups. The U.S. Department of Justice first charged him in 2012 for his involvement in the Zeus malware operation and the theft of millions of dollars using personal identification numbers, bank account numbers, credentials, and other sensitive info stolen from infected devices.

Russian TrickBot Mastermind Gets 5-Year Prison Sentence for Cybercrime Spree
2024-01-26 05:33

40-year-old Russian national Vladimir Dunaev has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for his role in creating and distributing the TrickBot malware, the U.S. Department of...