Former BreachForums admin to be jailed until Jan. 19 sentencing

Prosecutors want Conor Fitzpatrick jailed for allegedly using a computer without the required monitoring software.

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BreachForums’ Pompompurin Pleads Guilty to Holding Child Abuse Content

By Waqas
According to court documents, devices owned by Pompompurin contained 600 explicit images of child abuse, which led him to plead guilty in court.
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BreachForums Admin Pompompurin Gets 20-Year Supervised Sentence

By Deeba Ahmed
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (Pompompurin on the forum) launched BreachForums in March 2022 after the FBI took down the then-popular cybercrime marketplace, RaidForums.
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The FBI’s BreachForums bust is causing ‘chaos in the cybercrime underground’

The dramatic fall of one of the preeminent cybercrime communities on the web will have major implications for the cybercrime markets.

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Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “Pompompurin” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums is widely considered a reincarnation of RaidForums, a remarkably similar crime forum that the FBI infiltrated and dismantled in 2022. Continue reading Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. Continue reading FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. Continue reading Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”

Hackers fire off hoax email messages from FBI account after exploiting misconfigured server

Hackers sent a barrage of fake emails over the weekend using an FBI email account, the agency acknowledged, to falsely warn recipients that an attacker stole their information. The nonprofit spam-tracking service Spamhaus Project estimated that the hoax email campaign comprised as many as 100,000 messages. The FBI said that the hackers temporarily broke in via a software misconfiguration for its Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal that the bureau uses to communicate with state and local law enforcement agencies. “While the illegitimate email originated from an FBI operated server, that server was dedicated to pushing notifications for LEEP and was not part of the FBI’s corporate email service,” the FBI said in a Sunday update. “No actor was able to access or compromise any data or PII on the FBI’s network.” The email campaign sought to smear Vinny Troia, a cybersecurity author and CEO of Night Lion Security, as the party […]

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