Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’
A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from...
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Mozilla Says It’s Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep
In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with...
Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars...
Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M
Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens...
ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this...
Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms
U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member...
Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions
In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider...
SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years
A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10...
SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years
A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10...
Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a...
Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a...
Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach
In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit...
Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of...
Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S.
A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week...
Chinese SMS Fraud Network Shifts Focus to Financial Institutions
Fraudsters based in China who specialize in SMS scams are experiencing remarkable success converting stolen payment card information into digital...