Canadians extradited for 2016-2019 school hacking campaign
Original title: Canadian extradited to US for allegedly hacking schools in at least four states
Two Canadians are accused of running a cryptomining campaign targeting US schools from 2016 to 2019.
The Department of Justice indicted Ryan James Roach and Mathiew James Stubbings for hacking into educational institutions in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. They stole login credentials and installed cryptomining software on compromised devices using virtual private servers in Europe. Roach was arrested and extradited last week; Stubbings's extradition is pending. The campaign ran from June 2016 to December 2019. Both face charges of conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer and intentional damage to a protected computer, with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
- Targets were educational institutions in NY, TN, NC, MA
- Campaign ran June 2016 to December 2019
- Used VPS in European countries
- Peak of 10 computers running mining software
- Threat actors
- Ryan James RoachMathiew James Stubbings
- Organizations
- Department of Justice
- Countries
- CanadaUnited States
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2 min read at therecord.mediaThe Department of Justice said it identified two suspects in a case that dates back to 2016 and involved illicit cryptomining on the computers of U. S. educational institutions.
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