Syrian Electronic Army hacker sentenced to 42 months in US
Ahmad Umar Agha, known as Th3Pr0, was sentenced Thursday after more than a decade as a fugitive; accomplice Firas Dardar remains at large.
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12 articles · newest firstDefense contractor pleads guilty in North Korea remote-job scheme
John Allen Kurrle Jr. faces up to 20 years; sentencing is set for January 28, 2027, with restitution of about $7,000.
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Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha sentenced to 42 months in US
Prosecutors say he hit about 47 targets from 2011 to 2024, including a 2013 fake AP tweet that briefly erased $136 billion.
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Syrian Electronic Army hacker sentenced to 42 months
Ahmad Umar Agha, known as Th3Pr0, was jailed Thursday; co-defendant Firas Dardar remains a fugitive.
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Volt Typhoon rebuilt Silent Train relay chains since late 2023
Black Lotus Labs says chains were rebuilt in under two minutes and hundreds of victims were notified.
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FBI seizes Virtualine bulletproof hosting domain
A court authorized seizure of virtualine.net; prosecutors allege it kept serving a forum after child-abuse complaints and have not charged operators.
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US indicts Malaysian national over Madagascar NFT scam compounds
Prosecutors say Chui Kok Wa and five others stole more than $516,695 from 74 cryptocurrency wallets.
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MonsterCloud CEO indicted over alleged ransomware recovery scam
Zohar Pinhasi allegedly billed clients more than $19 million while secretly paying over $8 million in ransoms and pleaded not guilty.
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American pleads guilty to fraud scheme targeting US servicemembers
He faces up to 40 years after using stolen military PII through July 2019, with money mules moving funds to the Philippines.
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Party’s Over for Crypto Scammers Who Went on a Spending Spree After a $240 Million Bitcoin Theft
Malone Lam's plea hearing approaches in the $240 million bitcoin social engineering theft; the case highlights surging crypto fraud and limited enforcement.
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Party’s over for scammers who went on spending spree after $240M bitcoin theft
AP report on scammers' spending spree after a $240 million bitcoin social engineering theft, as ringleader Malone Lam nears a plea agreement.
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Week in review: Compromised Zimbra servers, previously patched Citrix NetScaler flaw exploited
Help Net Security's weekly digest highlights 274 compromised Zimbra servers, Gitea and Citrix NetScaler KEV additions, a PaperCut zero-day, and a suspected Iran-linked power plant attack.
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