A 36-year-old Yemeni national, who is believed to be the developer and primary operator of ‘Black Kingdom’ ransomware, has been indicted by the United States for conducting 1,500 attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers. The suspect, Rami Khaled Ahmed, is accused of deploying the Black Kingdom malware on roughly 1,500 computers in the United States and abroad, … Read more
Norwegian authorities have charged four men for allegedly fleecing thousands of investors in a crypto investment scheme and then laundering the ill-gotten gains through the accounts of a law firm. Norway’s National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime, or Økokrim, said in a Feb. 16 statement that it alleges the scam … Read more
The U.S. Justice Department announced the names of two Phobos ransomware affiliates arrested yesterday in Thailand, charging them on 11 counts due to their involvement in more than a thousand cyberattacks. The two men, Roman Berezhnoy (33) and Egor Nikolaevich Glebov (39) are both Russian citizens, active in the ransomware space between May 2019 and at least … Read more
The founder of the website used by Dominique Pelicot to invite dozens of men to rape his wife after he’d drugged her was indicted on Thursday in France on myriad charges, including some related to that case. If found guilty, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 7.5 … Read more