Spanish police have arrested a 22-year-old UK citizen in connection with the hacking of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Kanye West. The hacked accounts tweeted followers, encouraging them […]
His exploits were fictionalised in a Hollywood movie, and now the true story of a one-time teenage FBI informant has a new twist. Richard Wershe Jr has filed a $100m (£73m) lawsuit against former FBI […]
A Florida man has become the first to be sentenced to prison for his part in the US Capitol riots on 6 January. Paul Allard Hodgkins pleaded guilty in June to one felony count of […]
The FBI disregarded allegations about a prolific USA Gymnastics child abuser and later made serious errors in the investigation, a watchdog has found. The long-awaited report gave a scathing assessment of the FBI’s investigation into […]
Websites for a Russian-linked ransomware gang blamed for attacks on hundreds of businesses worldwide have gone offline. Monitors say a payment website and a blog run by the REvil group became suddenly unreachable on Tuesday. […]
More than 800 suspected criminals have been arrested worldwide after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, officials say. The operation, jointly conceived by Australia and the FBI, saw devices with the ANOM […]
The US has recovered most of the $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom paid to a cyber-criminal gang responsible for taking the Colonial Pipeline offline last month. DarkSide – which US authorities said operates from eastern Europe and […]
A man has been ordered to pay $12m (£8.6m) for his role setting a Minneapolis police station on fire during rioting last May. The fine for Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, 23, who pleaded guilty to an […]
Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department has said its computer network has been breached in a targeted cyber-attack, US media report. A ransomware group called Babuk is reportedly threatening to release sensitive data on police informants […]
A Russian man in the US has pleaded guilty to plotting to extort money from the electric car company Tesla. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov is accused of offering an employee $1m (£721,000) to place ransomware in […]
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