Field Trip! Hackaday Visits Pimoroni

If you have a Raspberry Pi and have any interest in its peripherals, you may be familiar with the grinning pirate logo of the British company, Pimoroni. The Sheffield, UK based outfit first established a niche for itself as one of the go-to places for much of the essentials of Pi ownership, and has extended its portfolio beyond the Pi into parts, boards, and components across the spectrum of electronic experimentation. Their products are notable for their distinctive and colourful design language as well as their  constant exploration of new ideas, and they have rapidly become one of those companies …read more

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London police seize over $667,000 in bitcoin from convicted hacker

London Metropolitan Police seized more than £500,000 ($667,000) in bitcoin from a hacker convicted of phishing attacks against 100 global companies and possessing stolen financial and personal data from 78 million individuals. Grant West, 26, was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison on Friday in London. West’s two-and-a-half-year-long scheme was to phish a wide range of targets, steal sensitive data and then sell the information on dark web markets. More than 47,000 such sales of stolen data were charged against him in court. Police shared the following screenshot of a vastly successful West phishing email: There is still £1.6 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency that remains unaccounted for that the sentencing judge described as “secreted away.” West was known online as Courvoisier, after the popular French cognac. He was a prominent vendor on the dark web market AlphaBay, which was the largest and most profitable of such sites until international police […]

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Russian hacker gets 35 years in prison for running counter-AV service

A citizen of the former USSR who had been living in Riga, Latvia faces three charges related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter-antivirus service that helped hackers dodge anti-malware solutions, the US Department of Justice … Continue reading Russian hacker gets 35 years in prison for running counter-AV service

After failing to jailbreak friend, Washtenaw County hacker gets seven years in prison

27-year-old Konrads Voits, convicted of hacking Washtenaw County computer systems to try to get a friend out of prison early, now faces prison time himself. Volts has been sentenced to seven years and three months behind bars – and his laptop and… Continue reading After failing to jailbreak friend, Washtenaw County hacker gets seven years in prison

U.S. Pipeline Network Disables Transactions System After Digital Attack

A major U.S. pipeline network temporarily disabled a system that digitally processes customer transactions following a digital attack. Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), a Fortune 500 oil and natural gas company, disclosed the incident on 2 April in a not… Continue reading U.S. Pipeline Network Disables Transactions System After Digital Attack

The FBI’s 10 Most-Wanted Black-Hat Hackers – #9 and #8

Recently, we renewed our countdown of the FBI’s 10 most wanted black-hat hackers. First up was Bezhad Mesri at number 10. He is accused of having compromised Home Box Office (HBO) employees’ emails and abused that access to steal data, exto… Continue reading The FBI’s 10 Most-Wanted Black-Hat Hackers – #9 and #8