Italian Police have arrested four suspected Anonymous hackers who are believed to be the hackers who participated in the "Tango down" operations.
Four men arrested are a 43-year-old man from near Lecce, a 20-year-old from Bologna, a 28-year-old from the province of Venice and a 25-year-old from the province of Turin.
The four individual part of hacktivist movement are being accused of various attacks including a Distributed-denial-of-service(DDoS) attack against the Vatican government websites.
The police said the group also hacked into organizations for selling their IT solutions as antivirus, according to RT report.
Four men arrested are a 43-year-old man from near Lecce, a 20-year-old from Bologna, a 28-year-old from the province of Venice and a 25-year-old from the province of Turin.
The four individual part of hacktivist movement are being accused of various attacks including a Distributed-denial-of-service(DDoS) attack against the Vatican government websites.
The police said the group also hacked into organizations for selling their IT solutions as antivirus, according to RT report.
The TOI report says money has been transferred to 13 different bank accounts in Chennai, Coimbatore,Tirunelveli, Bangalore,Hyderabad and other places.
The bank blocked those accounts but the gang have already managed to withdraw some funds.
The police has arrested three members of the crew who came to withdraw the money in Coimbatore and Hyderabad.
It appears the Company fell victim when the company officials opened the malware attached mail sent by the gang. The gang then probably harvested the bank login credentials using the malware.
Earlier this year, cyber criminals stole Rs 1 crore in Mulund from the current account of a cosmetics company.
An unknown hackers with "Unlimited Hack Team(UHT)" defacement signature recently attacked Thai PM website and posted insulting message about the Prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Narongrit Suksarn, aka Window 98se, 29, from Nakhon Si Thammarat, suspected hacker who met the police last week insisted he didn't hack into the PM's site, nor post insulting messages on it. But he admitted he was one of the member of the Unlimited Hack Team.
The Police said they have gathered information and are confident Narongrit and other suspects from the hacking group will be charged.
Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) commander Pol Maj Gen Pisit Paoin said they believed the Narongrit had hacked into PM site three days before the attack but he didn't change anything.
The police said the suspect will be charged with a violation of Section 5 of the 2007 Computer Act for allegedly sharing the stolen data with the team members, according to Bangkok post report.
It appears the UHT was established by a Cambodian group. The TCSD have requested Cambodian authorities to help in investigating the Cambodian hackers.
An alleged international cyber criminals managed to steal $45 million from thousands of ATM's in matter of hours.
Their first operation started from India, the hackers were able to "infiltrate the system of an unnamed Indian credit-card processing company that handles Visa and MasterCard prepaid debit cards. "
In their first operation, the crews made 4,500 ATM transactions worldwide and stole $5million, according to New York Times report.
In the second operation, the crews made 36,000 transactions worldwide and stole about $40 million in approximately 10 hours. It included $2.4 million stolen by a team of eight people in New York City.
The seven of the eight suspected members of the New York crew have been arrested. The eighth, said to be the ringleader, was found dead on April 27 in the Dominican Republic.
The Australian Federal Police(AFP) has reportedly arrested a 24-year-old self-proclaimed leader of LulzSec hacking group.
The arrest comes few days after the LulzSec member was jailed for the SQL Injection attack that allowed him access to the Sony Pictures Entertainment site.
According to the ABC news report,the AFP says the investigation began less than two weeks ago when investigators found a government website had been breached.
The report didn't reveal the man's identity who has been charged with the two counts of unauthorised modification of data to cause impairment and one count of unauthorised access to a restricted computer system.
The Philippines Bureau of Immigration(BI) has announced the arrest of 17 Chinese Cyber Criminals wanted for Online Fraud and Cyber Crimes in China.
Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said that the suspects , 15 of which are women, have been arrested in Makati City as part of an operation conducted by elements of the BI fugitive search unit.
The alleged CyberCriminals were identified as Cai Hong Ji, Mei Li, Huan Huan Yu, Si Meng Liu, Jiang Yang, Wenjie Yan, Ruicen Yuan, Zhi Ying He, Ning Zahang, Qian Shi, Liu Jan Wen, Chen Yan Ling, Peng Yuan Yuan, Ling Min Zhang, Zhou Xiao Yun, Chen Qing E, and Guo Yan.
According to BI report, the arrest come after the Chinese embassy request the BI to help them in capturing cyber criminals who fled to Philippines to evade arrest by Chinese authorities.
“All of them could not present their passports and travel documents, thus we will deport them for being undocumented and overstaying aliens,” the BI chief said.
A 15-year-old hacker goes by the handle 'Cosmo the God' from UGNazi hacker group , Social Engineering mastermind, was sentenced by Long Beach, California juvenile court on Wednesday. He is banned from the internet for six years, until his twenty-first birthday.
As a member of the UGNazi hacker collective, the 'cosmo the god' took part in some of the most notorious hacks. The hacker group DDoS'ed government and financial sites including CIA, NASDAQ, ca.gov. They bypassed Google two step, hijacked 4chan’s DNS and redirected it to their own Twitter feed.
Cosmo is best known for his Social engineering attack. He gained access to user accounts at Amazon, PayPal, and a slew of other companies with social engineering attacks.
According to wired report, during these six years, he cannot use the internet without the prior consent of his parole officer. He is required to hand over all of his account logins and passwords. He must disclose in writing any devices that he has access to that have the capability to connect to a network.
Finally, Cosmo is prohibited from having contact with any members of UG Nazi or Anonymous, nor their associates, nor a list of "other individuals," .
Violate any of those terms will result in a three-year prison term.
A 41 year-old man, an alleged member of Anonymous hacktivist, arrested by Scotland Yard police for allegedly hacking the Home Secretary Theresa May's constituency website and the Home Office websites.
The unnamed man is suspected of encouraging a Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on those sites in June this year, as part of Anonymous operation.
The police seized computers, telephones and electronic storage devices from his house.
The man has been arrested on suspicion of assisting or encouraging crime contrary to the Serious Crime Act 2007. He was bailed until mid-December.
The Detective Inspector Jason Tunn, from the Metropolitan Police's Crime Unit (PCeU), said that the arrest demonstrates the commitment of the PCeU and our colleagues to combat cyber criminality anywhere within the UK and take action against those responsible
Jason warned that assisting and encouraging cyber crime is a serious matter in the UK. " I would advise all persons to consider their actions and any possible future consequences prior to posting any material online"
A 20-year-old French hacker was arrested this week after he spread a money stealing virus via smartphone "apps".
He tricked more than 17,000 victims into installing a Trojan that posed as a legitimate android application.
Once the fake app were installed, it sent SMS to premium rate numbers without user's knowledge. This allowed attacker to earn a tiny slice for each SMS. According to report, he steal about 500,000 euros (£405,00, $650,000).
The malware also designed such that it steals user credentials from gaming and gambling websites the victims had visited and used.
He admitted his crimes after he was arrested in the northern city of Amiens. According to BBC reports, Hacker told investigators he was motivated not by greed, but rather a love of computers and an ambition to be a software developer.
Earlier this year, a grade 9 student at one of the board’s Mississauga high schools, hacked into computer and accessed files containing personal information about students and teachers.
According to Mississauga report, the student brought external electronic devices to school that allowed him to hack into the board database, using a school computer during one of his business technology classes.
The files he accessed could be read,but not edited or deleted. The database contains the full names, identification number, grade and school location for every student in the board. The files also contained the full names, identification number, school location and position for all school staff at the board.
“He was able to tap into a board database with his own external equipment and software, hacking software,” said board spokesperson Bruce Campbell.
Board come to know about the hack after the boy boasted to his teacher about hacking into the system.
“His motivation was he (wanted) to demonstrate how easy it was for him to get into the system,” The Brampton Guardian quoted Campbell as saying. “That was deliberate that he set out to hack into the system. Apparently he was very proud of his accomplishment.”
According to Mississauga report, the student brought external electronic devices to school that allowed him to hack into the board database, using a school computer during one of his business technology classes.
The files he accessed could be read,but not edited or deleted. The database contains the full names, identification number, grade and school location for every student in the board. The files also contained the full names, identification number, school location and position for all school staff at the board.
“He was able to tap into a board database with his own external equipment and software, hacking software,” said board spokesperson Bruce Campbell.
Board come to know about the hack after the boy boasted to his teacher about hacking into the system.
“His motivation was he (wanted) to demonstrate how easy it was for him to get into the system,” The Brampton Guardian quoted Campbell as saying. “That was deliberate that he set out to hack into the system. Apparently he was very proud of his accomplishment.”
Two Romanian men pleaded guilty to participating in a $10 million scheme to remotely hack into and steal credit and debit card data from payment terminals at hundreds of Subway restaurants and other merchants across the US.
Iulian Dolan, 28, of Craiova, Romania, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and Cezar Butu, 27, of Ploiesti, Romania, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud.
The hackers , in their guilty pleas, admitted that participating in a Romanian-based conspiracy, lasting from 2009 to 2011, to hack into hundreds of U.S. point-of-sale (POS) computers, the DOJ said. The scheme led to the compromise of more than 146,000 payment cards and more than $10m in losses.
Dolan first first remotely scanned the internet to identify U.S.-based vulnerable POS systems with certain remote desktop software applications (RDAs) installed on them. Using these RDAs, Dolan logged onto the targeted POS systems over the internet by cracking the password.
He then installed keystroke logging software onto the POS systems and recorded all of the data that was keyed into or swiped through the POS systems, including customers' payment card data, the DOJ said.
Dolan stole payment card data belonging to approximately 6,000 cardholders, the DOJ said.A Dolan received $5,000 to $7,500 in cash and personal property from Oprea for his efforts, the DOJ alleged.
In his plea agreement, Dolan has agreed to be sentenced to seven years, and Butu has agreed to be sentenced to 21 months in prison.
After the arrest of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, everyone believed that it was due to his role in The Pirate Bay. Hackers also started to hack Cambodia Government websites as part of protesting the arrest.
But authorities have confirmed that Svartholm arrest is the result of connection with the alleged hacking of a Swedish IT company and leaking thousands of tax numbers.
"His arrest was made at the request of the Swedish government for a crime related to information technology," said in the official statement by a Cambodian spokesperson.
Few months back, Logica , a Swedish IT company with ties to the country's tax office, has been hacked and tax numbers of 9,000 Swedish people leaked.
Following the attack, Two Swedish citizens were arrested ;Svartholm would be the third suspect in the hacking case.
Two alleged members of the Indian Hacker group 'IndiShell', were arrested on Saturday after an extensive investigation by the Gautam Budh Nagar cyber crime cell.
According to Times of India report, the accused, who did BTech in computer science, were charged with hacking into an e-commerce website that specializes in mobile recharge. Cops said four members of the gang with pan-India operations were at large.
Sumit Gupta (24) and Ankit Singh (22), from Moradabad in UP, accused for cheating a Delhi-based company of more than Rs 50 lakh. They were arrested from Noida and booked under Sections 420 of the IPC and 66C of the IT Act, 2008.
"We received a complaint from the head of recharge of Memory Electronics Pvt Ltd about the website being hacked," said Triveni Singh, DSP (cyber crime cell) GB Nagar.
"After hacking into the server, the accused obtained administrative rights of the website. when users asked for recharge of their cellphones, DTH cards, net cards, etc, the hackers would just key in the cell number and the amount to be topped up. However, no bill would be generated as the hackers had bypassed the payment page," Triveni added.
The other accused who are yet to be arrested are also BTech graduates from across India. "Shrinivas, facebook name 'neo', is from Kohlapur in Maharashtra; Ajay Dhaka, alias dark look, is from Jaipur; Raman Kumar Rana, facebook name 'google warrior', is a resident of Pathankot; and Manmohan, alias 'mack', is from Muradabad," Triveni said.
According to the report, the Shrinivas is the founder and president of a cyber security and anti-hacking organization. But now he is involved in hacking himself and has made a business out of it.
A 21-year-old Maryland man who was part of a credit card hacking ring that targeted businesses in Seattle and across the country has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle says Christopher A. Schroebel partnered with 21-year-old Dutch computer hacker David Benjamin Schrooten to steal credit card numbers from businesses across the country and sell them in bulk through websites.
In their charges, prosecutors say Schroebel had in his possession 84,000 credit card numbers he had stolen or bought from other hackers. The two hackers operated "point of sale" operations, in which spy software is installed in computers used by businesses for transactions. The software records credit card numbers used.
Schroebel pleaded guilty in May to charges of bank fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer, access device fraud, among others.
Schrooten, who was arrested in Romania, is set to stand trial next month.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle says Christopher A. Schroebel partnered with 21-year-old Dutch computer hacker David Benjamin Schrooten to steal credit card numbers from businesses across the country and sell them in bulk through websites.
In their charges, prosecutors say Schroebel had in his possession 84,000 credit card numbers he had stolen or bought from other hackers. The two hackers operated "point of sale" operations, in which spy software is installed in computers used by businesses for transactions. The software records credit card numbers used.
Schroebel pleaded guilty in May to charges of bank fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer, access device fraud, among others.
Schrooten, who was arrested in Romania, is set to stand trial next month.
A man believed to be a member of the international hacker group Anonymous was reportedly arrested by Hong Kong police after he claimed on Facebook that he would hack several government websites.
Police said the man, who was later released on bail, was held on suspicion of "access to a computer with criminal or dishonest intent" after he allegedly threatened to hack seven government websites between June and August this year.
“The Internet is not a virtual world of lawlessness,” a police spokesman said, adding that the man was required to report back to the police in October.
He would face up to five years in jail, if found guilty.
The man is a member of the global hacker group Anonymous, the South China Morning Post said. The group is said to have 20 members in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory, which guarantees civil liberties not seen on the mainland, including freedom of speech.
The police spokesman declined to confirm his link to Anonymous. The last posting on the "Anonymous HK" Facebook page on July 22 urged authorities to show "respect" to citizens.
A UK teenage Hacker who stole private information belonging to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and clogged up the UK's national anti-terrorism telephone hotline, has been jailed for six months.
Junaid Hussain, 17 and of Birmingham, the leader of the Team Poison group, broke into the Gmail account of Blair aide Katie Kay and stole information including Tony Blair's address and phone book - containing email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses for Blair's family, friends and MPs.
When Hussain was arrested in April, a Facebook chat window on his computer bragged of "hacking a number of different people and organisations, including Tony Blair".
Hussain was duly sentenced to six months in prison.
"Hussain's actions were foolish and irresponsible," said detective inspector Stewart Garrick of the Police Central E-crime Unit.
"Today's sentencing emphasises the seriousness of his offence and should act as a deterrent to anyone else who feels that they can act in such a manner."
Junaid Hussain, 17 and of Birmingham, the leader of the Team Poison group, broke into the Gmail account of Blair aide Katie Kay and stole information including Tony Blair's address and phone book - containing email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses for Blair's family, friends and MPs.
When Hussain was arrested in April, a Facebook chat window on his computer bragged of "hacking a number of different people and organisations, including Tony Blair".
Hussain was duly sentenced to six months in prison.
"Hussain's actions were foolish and irresponsible," said detective inspector Stewart Garrick of the Police Central E-crime Unit.
"Today's sentencing emphasises the seriousness of his offence and should act as a deterrent to anyone else who feels that they can act in such a manner."
South Korean police have arrested two malicious hackers who compromised personal data of 8.7 million customers of KT Telecom, the second biggest mobile carrier in South Korea .
The company alerted police on July 13 after detecting traces of hacking attacks. The data was collected for the last five months, starting in February 2012.
Hackers had stolen data such as customers' names, phone numbers and residential registration numbers and sold the information to telemarketing firms.
"It took nearly seven months to develop the hacking program and (the suspects) had very sophisticated hacking skills," a KT Corp. spokesperson told Yonhap News. "In light of this incident, we will strengthen the internal security system and raise awareness of security among all employees to prevent causing inconvenience to customers."
Seven other people were also booked for buying the leaked data for telemarketing purposes, Yonhap said.
The attack, described as one of the country's largest hacking schemes, is estimated to be valued at six figures: police said the two made about 1 billion won ($878,000).
"We deeply bow our head in apology for having your precious personal information leaked... we'll try our best to make such things never happen again," KT said in a statement to customers.
International authorities have arrested a Russian man in Cyprus on charges that he was behind cyberattacks on Seattle-based Amazon.com and other online retailers in 2008.
Dmitry Olegovick Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was indicted by a Seattle grand jury in May 2011 for conspiracy to intentionally cause damage without authorization to a protected computer and with being in possession of at least 15 unauthorized access devices. He's charged with aggravated identity theft in another case involving possession of stolen credit-card numbers in October 2009.
"The old adage is true: The arm of the law is long," said Durkan, who leads the Justice Department's Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Enforcement Committee. "This defendant could not hide in cyberspace, and I congratulate the international law-enforcement agencies who tracked him down and made this arrest."
The indictment, unsealed Thursday, says that Zubakha mounted two "denial of service" attacks against Amazon.com on June 6 and June 9, 2008. In both instances, the attacks flooded the online retailer's computers with requests to display pages with particularly large graphics and photographs.
The attacks overwhelmed Amazon.com's servers and caused their systems to crash. Zubakha and a co-defendant, Sergey Vioktorovich Logashov, are also accused of similar attacks on ebay.com and Priceline.com.
The indictment says the men took credit for the attacks in hacker Internet forums.
In one instance, Logashov is accused of calling Priceline.com and offering his expertise as a computer consultant to stop the attack. In October 2009, law enforcement traced the possession of more than 28,000 stolen credit-card numbers to the men.
Zubakha also is charged with aggravated identity theft for illegally using the credit card of a Lake Stevens resident. Logashov remains at large, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The possession of illegal access devices and conspiracy counts each carry a sentence of as much as 10 years in prison and a possible $250,000 fine. Conviction on aggravated identity theft could add an additional mandatory two years on top of any other sentence they receive.
Zubakha is awaiting extradition.
source: The Seattle Times
Dmitry Olegovick Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was indicted by a Seattle grand jury in May 2011 for conspiracy to intentionally cause damage without authorization to a protected computer and with being in possession of at least 15 unauthorized access devices. He's charged with aggravated identity theft in another case involving possession of stolen credit-card numbers in October 2009.
"The old adage is true: The arm of the law is long," said Durkan, who leads the Justice Department's Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Enforcement Committee. "This defendant could not hide in cyberspace, and I congratulate the international law-enforcement agencies who tracked him down and made this arrest."
The indictment, unsealed Thursday, says that Zubakha mounted two "denial of service" attacks against Amazon.com on June 6 and June 9, 2008. In both instances, the attacks flooded the online retailer's computers with requests to display pages with particularly large graphics and photographs.
The attacks overwhelmed Amazon.com's servers and caused their systems to crash. Zubakha and a co-defendant, Sergey Vioktorovich Logashov, are also accused of similar attacks on ebay.com and Priceline.com.
The indictment says the men took credit for the attacks in hacker Internet forums.
In one instance, Logashov is accused of calling Priceline.com and offering his expertise as a computer consultant to stop the attack. In October 2009, law enforcement traced the possession of more than 28,000 stolen credit-card numbers to the men.
Zubakha also is charged with aggravated identity theft for illegally using the credit card of a Lake Stevens resident. Logashov remains at large, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The possession of illegal access devices and conspiracy counts each carry a sentence of as much as 10 years in prison and a possible $250,000 fine. Conviction on aggravated identity theft could add an additional mandatory two years on top of any other sentence they receive.
Zubakha is awaiting extradition.
source: The Seattle Times
The final member of a roving theft ring that combined high-tech hacking and old-fashioned burglary has been sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison for a series of identity- and payroll thefts that took more than $3 million from up to 50 local businesses.
Joshuah Allen Witt, 35, appeared in U.S. District Court on Friday, where Judge Richard A. Jones imposed just under an eight-year sentence on charges that included conspiracy, aggravated identity theft and access-device fraud.
Witt, who pleaded guilty in April, received the same prison sentence as co-conspirator John Earl Griffin, 36, who appeared before Jones earlier. Witt will get credit for the nearly two years he has been in custody since his arrest.
A third defendant, Brad Eugene Lowe, 39, received a 6 ½-year sentence.
The Seattle Times reported that all of the men will be ordered to pay restitution, which will be determined at another hearing.
The leader of the hacker group "TeaMp0isoN" has pleaded guilty to stealing the address book details and other private data from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in June of last year.
Junaid Hussain, also known as "TriCk", has now admitted to hacking into a Gmail email account belonging an advisor to Blair by the name of Katy Kay.
Hussain, 18, from Birmingham, said that he used an ID "Trick" to access the aide's account and steal confidential data including addresses, phone numbers and email addresses belonging to Blair, his wife, and sister-in-law Lyndsye Booth, as well as Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of the House of Lords.
Ben Cooper, Hussain's lawyer, told the court that the offences had just been a prank.
After admitting to conspiracy and computer charges at London's Southwark Crown Court, Judge Peter Testar granted Hussain bail until sentencing later this month, advising him to be "under no illusions" that he may go to prison.
Hussain has also confessed to taking part in and leading members of the hacker group to attack the UK national Anti-Terrorist Hotline with hundreds of hoax phone calls.
Junaid Hussain, also known as "TriCk", has now admitted to hacking into a Gmail email account belonging an advisor to Blair by the name of Katy Kay.
Hussain, 18, from Birmingham, said that he used an ID "Trick" to access the aide's account and steal confidential data including addresses, phone numbers and email addresses belonging to Blair, his wife, and sister-in-law Lyndsye Booth, as well as Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of the House of Lords.
Ben Cooper, Hussain's lawyer, told the court that the offences had just been a prank.
After admitting to conspiracy and computer charges at London's Southwark Crown Court, Judge Peter Testar granted Hussain bail until sentencing later this month, advising him to be "under no illusions" that he may go to prison.
Hussain has also confessed to taking part in and leading members of the hacker group to attack the UK national Anti-Terrorist Hotline with hundreds of hoax phone calls.
