Collaborate Disseminate
A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. Continue reading Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. Continue reading Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France
A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish authorities rarely name suspects in an investigation, but they were willing to make an exception for Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki, a notorious hacker who — at the tender age of 17 — had been convicted of more than 50,000 cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating botnets, and calling in bomb threats. Continue reading Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service
Thanks to the Shadow Brokers, any hacker can now easily attack and pwn millions of Windows computers on the internet. Continue reading The Latest Dump of Alleged NSA Tools Is ‘The Worst Thing Since Snowden’
RAND Corporation has published possibly the most data-driven study into zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits yet. Continue reading Zero Day Exploits Rarely Discovered By More Than One Group, Study Finds