Cybercrime
A federal grand jury indicted two Canadian men for hijacking university supercomputers to secretly mine Electroneum cryptocurrency.
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Cybercrime
A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.
Cybercrime
Artem Stryzhak was sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to using Nefilim ransomware in attacks.
Cybercrime
The individuals called victims and persuaded them to install an app and scan their credit cards to loot their bank accounts.
Hacker Conversations
Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t.
Cybercrime
The suspect is believed to be Edward Dubrovsky, a Canadian cybersecurity executive who was visiting the United States for a conference.
Cybercrime
The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers.
Government
Zhang Yu was charged alongside Xu Zewei, who was extradited from Italy to the US in April 2026.
Cybercrime
The individual was detained in May and has been extradited to Germany to face hacking charges.
Cybercrime
Amir Barati, an alleged member of the Mabna Institute, was indicted for targeting universities, private organizations, and government entities in the US and abroad.
Hacker Conversations
Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Pepijn van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacking multiple organizations, stealing their data, and extorting them.
Cybercrime
Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers.
Cybercrime
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after he was arrested in Ireland in 2023.
Hacker Conversations
Vinnie Liu was recruited by the NSA when he was just 17 years old. He is now the CEO of Bishop Fox.
Cybercrime
Australian and US authorities collaborated to identify and charge the alleged cybercriminals, who face many years in prison.
Cyberwarfare
The 17 members of the Mabna Institute targeted hundreds of universities and organizations in the US and abroad.
Hacker Conversations
Marcus Hutchins doesn’t personally consider himself a hacker – but he accepts the epithet because it’s a widely used term for what he once...
Cybercrime
Connor Riley Moucka was extradited to the United States in July 2025 after he was arrested in Canada.
Hacker Conversations
Tal Kollander’s history divides neatly into two halves: first as an active hacker and then as the block that stops hacks.
Artificial Intelligence
Hackers have been harvesting AI access tokens and have been using AI-assisted offensive tools to automate attacks.
Artificial Intelligence
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