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DOJ says ‘millions’ of US citizens victimized by BreachForums administrator

  • 25th March 2023
The Justice Department is accusing the administrator of popular cybercriminal platform BreachForums of facilitating access to the sensitive personal information of millions of U.S. citizens. Conor Fitzpatrick, a 20-year-old arrested last week in Peekskill, New York for allegedly operating as BreachForums administrator pompompurin, appeared in a ...
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Pro-Russia hackers are increasingly targeting hospitals, researchers warn

  • 20th March 2023
Cybersecurity researchers said this week that they have observed the pro-Russia hacking group known as Killnet increasingly launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting healthcare organizations since November. Killnet was established following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and spent most of the last year ...
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Police shut down 48 DDoS-for-hire services, arrest 7 alleged administrators

  • 16th December 2022
International police shut down dozens of popular websites that allowed paying users to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks and arrested seven alleged administrators of the sites, Europol announced Thursday. The announcement came one day after the U.S. Department of Justice said six defendants in the U.S. had been charged with overseeing ...
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Cincinnati State College one of several schools added to ransomware leak sites on Thanksgiving

  • 29th November 2022
Cincinnati State College was one of several small U.S. colleges added to the leak sites of ransomware groups over the Thanksgiving holiday, continuing a trend of educational institutions being targeted by hackers.  On Tuesday, the school said it is still investigating a cybersecurity incident that occurred in early November and that it is making ...
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