Category Archives: National Crime Agency

Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats

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A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools.

On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Hertfordshire resident George Duke-Cohan, who admitted making bomb threats to thousands of schools and a United Airlines flight traveling from the U.K. to San Francisco last month. Continue reading Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats→

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

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Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years. Continue reading DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled→

3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers’ Private Data at risk

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Three, one of UK’s biggest mobile operators, has become the latest victim of a massive data breach that reportedly left the personal information and contact details of 6 Million of its customers exposed.

The company admitted the data breach late Thurs… Continue reading 3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers’ Private Data at risk→

Adobe Fined $1M in Multistate Suit Over 2013 Breach; No Jail for Spamhaus Attacker

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Adobe will pay just $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 15 state attorneys general over its huge 2013 data breach that exposed payment records on approximately 38 million people. In other news, the 39-year-old Dutchman responsible for coordinating an epic, weeks-long distributed denial-of-service attack against anti-spam provider Spamhaus in 2013 will avoid any jail time for his crimes thanks to a court ruling in Amsterdam this week. Continue reading Adobe Fined $1M in Multistate Suit Over 2013 Breach; No Jail for Spamhaus Attacker→

Ne’er-Do-Well News and Cyber Justice

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Way back in the last millennium when I was a lowly copy aide at The Washington Post, I pitched the Metro Section editor on an idea for new column: “And the Good News Is…” The editor laughed me out of her office. But I still think it’s a decent idea — particularly in the context of cybersecurity — to periodically highlight the good news when people allegedly responsible for spewing so much badness online are made to face justice. Continue reading Ne’er-Do-Well News and Cyber Justice→

Ne’er-Do-Well News and Cyber Justice

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Way back in the last millennium when I was a lowly copy aide at The Washington Post, I pitched the Metro Section editor on an idea for new column: “And the Good News Is…” The editor laughed me out of her office. But I still think it’s a decent idea — particularly in the context of cybersecurity — to periodically highlight the good news when people allegedly responsible for spewing so much badness online are made to face justice. Continue reading Ne’er-Do-Well News and Cyber Justice→