Security News

Russian Hacker Sentenced to Prison for Ebury Botnet Attacks (Security Week)
2017-08-04 10:56

A 41-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced to 46 months in prison by a court in the U.S. state of Minnesota for his role in a cybercrime scheme involving a botnet powered by the Linux...

Hacker Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Spreading Linux Malware (The Hackers News)
2017-08-04 00:58

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in fraudulent payments has been imprisoned for 46 months (nearly four years) in a United...

Citadel Author Sentenced to Five Years in Prison (Security Week)
2017-07-21 10:13

A Russian man this week was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the development and maintenance of the Citadel banking malware. read more

Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison (The Hackers News)
2017-07-11 10:01

A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of...

Russian Hacker Living in U.S. Sentenced to Prison (Security Week)
2017-07-11 08:38

A Russian-born U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 110 months in prison for running a sophisticated cybercrime operation that involved botnets, stolen financial data and money laundering. Alexander...

Illegal Bitcoin exchange operator gets 66-month prison sentence (Help Net Security)
2017-06-28 19:16

Anthony Murgio, the operator of the Coin.mx Bitcoin exchange, has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for processing over $10 million in illegal Bitcoin transactions. He has also been sentenced...

Inmates Secretly Build and Network Computers while in Prison (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-30 17:47

This is kind of amazing: Inmates at a medium-security Ohio prison secretly assembled two functioning computers, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the Marion Correctional Institution's...