Ne’er-Do-Well News
Account Hijacking Site OGUsers Hacked, Again
For at least the third time in its existence, OGUsers -- a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts -- has been hacked ...
Bomb Threat, DDoS Purveyor Gets Eight Years
A 22-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for conducting bomb threats against thousands of schools in the U.S. and United Kingdom, launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...
Convicted SIM Swapper Gets 3 Years in Jail
A 21-year-old Irishman who pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims has been sentenced to just under three years in prison. The defendant is ...
Body Found in Canada Identified as Neo-Nazi Spam King
The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who ...
Two Charged in SIM Swapping, Vishing Scams
Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies ...
The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
Some of the world's largest Internet firms have taken steps to crack down on disinformation spread by QAnon conspiracy theorists and the hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan. But according to a California-based ...
QAnon/8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline
A phone call to an Internet provider in Oregon on Sunday evening was all it took to briefly sideline multiple websites related to 8chan/8kun -- a controversial online image board linked to ...
Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks
A week ago, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone was attempting to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ...
Amid an Embarrassment of Riches, Ransom Gangs Increasingly Outsource Their Work
There's an old adage in information security: "Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure." Many organizations that do hire professionals to test their network security ...
Promising Infusions of Cash, Fake Investor John Bernard Walked Away With $30M
September featured two stories on a phony tech investor named John Bernard, a pseudonym used by a convicted thief named John Clifton Davies who's fleeced dozens of technology companies out of an ...
