Man who lived luxury lifestyle after hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox is found guilty

Yevgeniy Nikulin lived the high life, funded by a life of cybercrime.
Now he faces a significant prison sentence after stealing millions of user records from the likes of LinkedIn and Dropbox.
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Largest DDoS Attack Ever, New Dropbox Features, North Korean Cyber-Attacks

In episode 126 for June 22nd 2020: Details on the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack ever recorded, new security features in Dropbox, and the latest on new North Korean targeted cyber-attacks. ** Show notes and links mentioned on the show ** … Continue reading Largest DDoS Attack Ever, New Dropbox Features, North Korean Cyber-Attacks

Woman who deliberately deleted firm’s Dropbox is sentenced

58-year-old Danielle Bulley may not look like your typical cybercriminal, but the act of revenge she committed against a company had just as much impact as a conventional hacker breaking into a business’s servers and causing havoc.
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Woman who deliberately deleted firm’s Dropbox is sentenced

58-year-old Danielle Bulley may not look like your typical cybercriminal, but the act of revenge she committed against a company had just as much impact as a conventional hacker breaking into a business’s servers and causing havoc. As North Yorks… Continue reading Woman who deliberately deleted firm’s Dropbox is sentenced

Is there an optimised yet safe way to transfer bulk data from DropBox to OneDrive?

The brute force way to do this is to download all data from DropBox to a local PC and then re-upload to OneDrive, but I see there are “cloud based” solutions (i.e.
cloudfuze, uBackup), which I assume do this via faster back-end links. Are… Continue reading Is there an optimised yet safe way to transfer bulk data from DropBox to OneDrive?

Coronavirus delays trial of alleged Russian hacker a third time

Justice has already been slow in this case, and the pandemic isn’t helping: His trial has been postponed for a third time. Continue reading Coronavirus delays trial of alleged Russian hacker a third time

FSB asset introduced LinkedIn hacker, future Group-IB executive in 2012, U.S. alleges

Attorneys are using the trial of a man who allegedly stole more than 100 million usernames and passwords from U.S. social media companies to hint at the murky, long-rumored relationships between Russian cybercriminals and the Kremlin’s intelligence agencies. Yevgeniy Nikulin, a 32-year-old St. Petersburg, Russia native, currently is on trial in San Francisco, accused of hacking into LinkedIn, Formspring and Dropbox in 2012 and obtaining 117 million users credentials. Roughly 30 million of those credentials were taken from Formspring. Prosecutors say he worked with a number of co-conspirators to gather and attempt to sell that data, including Nikita Kislitsin, who allegedly tried selling stolen Formspring data before he became an executive at Group-IB, and Alexsey Belan, a Russian man who made the introduction between Nikulin and Kislitin. In a recent filing, the government reproduced an email conversation in which, prosecutors say, Kislitsin was trying to sell the stolen Formspring data, and wanted Belan […]

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