10 ethical hackers detained have been detained by chinese police.

Multiple UK arrests in international operation to combat computer hijackers

Two suburban Chicago teen-agers, who called themselves System Cruncher and Vladimere, cracked the three-character password at DePaul University in 1980, causing the system to crash and costing the university about $22,000 to restore it to service.

accused of a cell phone scheme to steal credentials

Taiwan has arrested three foreign suspects over a US$2.5 million S$3.4 million cyberheist in which malware was used to hack into a major local banks ATM network and bags of cash were stolen

3 Members of Masters of Deception raided and searched

5 members of masters of deception found themselves caught up and arrested for credit theft related crimes.

2 persons arrested that allegedly behind the Zotob worm.

3 more arrested and charged for carding crimes related to operation cardshop.

12 Romain Anonymous Members Detained

Two held in Mumbai for ‘insulting Goddess Kali’ on Facebook

Keningau police chief DSP Douglas Nyeging Taong said all the suspects, aged between 28 and 39 years old, had been detained for further investigation. He said police also seized several equipment in the house, allegedly used in the promotion of illegal gambling, which are believed to be owned by a government employee. “On May 28, we received information from the public about the alleged activity,” he told a press conference at the district police headquarters here yesterday. Acting on the information, he said a police team from the criminal investigation department CID raided an unnumbered house in the village and found nine local men allegedly playing online cyber gambling. All of them were arrested and several computer equipment used in the illegal cyber gambling activities were seized. The equipment seized, he said, included eight multi-brand laptop computers, a modem, eight computer mouses, a broadband dongle, RM1,243 cash, two desks and nine plastic chairs.

28 suspects were found engaged in the business of ‘selling pornographic materials’ or pornographic website links to their clients abroad and later duping them into exposing themselves in front of webcams. Seized by the PNP-ACG operatives during the Olongapo City raid were at least 57 Computer System Units with Accessories, Monitors, Keyboards, Switch Hubs, Modems, Wifi Antennas, Cellphones, Telephone Set Landline, and White Board. The suspects will be charged for violation of Section 4c1 Cybersex of Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act before of the Prosecutor’s Office, Department of Justice, Manila. According to Eleazar, the operation was in response to the continues complaints they received from their foreign law enforcement counterparts regarding the presence of a ‘sextortion’ ring threatening to upload nude photographs and videos of their victims in Facebook and YouTube.

Fifty members of a Russian hacker group lurk have been arrested on suspicion of stealing 1.7 billion rubles $25.5 million from the countrys banks with malware named lurk. The Federal Security Service FSB — alongside Interior Ministry and National Guard troops — made arrests in 15 regions across the country. Eighteen suspects were denied bail, while another three were placed under house arrest. All suspects have been charged with the creation, distribution and use of malicious computer programs. Police seized computer and communications equipment, bank cards, financial documents and large sums of money during the raids.

The indictment also alleges that in January, 1988, Kevin L. Poulsen, 24, then a computer expert at SRI International in the Silicon Valley, stole a printout of the unlisted phone numbers of Ferdinand E. Marcos and several cronies. The FBI was using the numbers in its investigation of the late Philippine president, who then was living in Hawaii. Despite the sensitive nature of the information Poulsen allegedly obtained, Assistant U.S. Atty. Robert Crowe of San Jose said Thursday that "it is not an espionage case." Poulsen is still at large. Prosecutors believe that he is hiding in the Los Angeles area. He called authorities earlier this week, but used his skill with telephones to evade a phone trace, prosecutors said. His two co-defendants have turned themselves in.

Accused of using the malicious software called “Bugat” to infect computers via email, enabling them to steal banking credentials and other business account information. charged with receiving $1.35 million stolen in an international phishing scheme from the bank account of a Pennsylvania oil and gas drilling company, on behalf of another currently already arrested Moldovan native Andrey Ghinkul, who spread the Bugat botnet.

Federal Courts Order Seizure of Three Website Domains Involved in Distributing Pirated Android Cell Phone Apps

Two Perth IT students who conducted a "research project" into SmartRiders have been found guilty of fraud after hacking into the Transperth-issued cards to roll-back charges and gain $18 in free travel.

Computer Sting Nets 7 Teen Suspects

A Philippine couple, both bank workers, were identified on Monday as the chief suspects in the search for the Love Bug authors. Philippine Feds have finally got one body in custody, at least.

Two former Tampa, FLA TV news managers have been charged with illegally tapping into phone lines and computers at another station to gain a news edge over their competitors. Former new director Terry Cole and assistant news director Michael Shapiro at WTSP-TV have been charged with 17 counts of computer hacking and conspiracy in the theft of information from WTVT-TV through computer phone lines, authorities said. Their arraignment was set for May 19. If convicted, each could face a maximum prison sentence of 85 years. The two were fired from WTSP when the station learned of the alleged thefts. The break-ins began in November, 1988, but were not noticed until January 12, 1989, when WTVTs morning news producer noticed that files were missing, authorities said. Computer experts determined that an intruder had rifled the files. Authorities said Shapiro knew WTVTs security system thoroughly because he had helped set it up while working there as an assignment manager before being hired away from WTVT in October.

According to the television magazine "Panorama" whose journalists have first published the NASA and SPAN hacks, they intruded scientific, military and industry computers and gave passwords, access mechanisms, programs and data to 2 KGB officers; among others, intrusion is reported of the NASA headquarters, the Los Alamos and Fermilab computers, the United States Chief of Staffs data bank OPTIMIS, and several more army computers. In Europe, computers of the French-Italian arms manufacturer Thomson, the European Space Agency ESA, the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, CERN/GENEVA and the German Electron Accelerator DESY/Hamburg are mentioned. The report says that they earned several 100,000 DM plus drugs one hacker evidently was drug addict over about 3 years. For the German Intelligence authorities, this is "a new quality of espionage." The top manager said that they had awaited something similar but are nevertheless surprised that it happened so soon and with such broad effects.

The Philippine National Police PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group CIDG disclosed on Tuesday that its operatives arrested in two separate raids on Monday 16 Chinese and four South Korean nationals involved in cyber crime activities in Angeles City, Pampanga. CIDG spokesperson Chief Inspector Elizabeth Jasmin said the first operation was carried out at around 9:30 a.m. leading to the arrest of Zao Ging, Xue Wang, Iv Yao, and Wang Tianda. She said the suspects were arrested, along with the confiscation of six laptop computers, a router, modem, and assorted computer and wire paraphernalia in Palm Villas, Clark Freeport Zone, based on the report submitted by Senior Superintendent Benjamin Silo, CIDG regional chief. Jasmin said this was followed by a raid at around 10:30 a.m. in Sweet Villas, Clark Hills Village, Clark Freeport Zone, where they seized two laptop computers, a wifi stick, a flash drive, and four ATM cards sporting Chinese characters, which were in the possession and control of the 16 Chinese nationals. She said CIDG officer Silo has yet to submit the names of the arrested Chinese, who together with the Koreans, have been charged for violation of Republic Act 10175 Cybercrime Prevention Act.

Criminals divert money being legitimately transferred from one business to another by pretending to be a legitimate supplier. Fraudsters target the person in control of a company’s finances such as the chief executive or accounts manager with a genuine-looking email. But the email contains hidden software which allows the fraudsters to obtain sensitive banking information if the recipient opens the email or clicks on a link. Funds from legitimate transactions between the ‘victim’ business and the partner business are then diverted into the criminals account and effectively stolen.

7 Estonian citizens indicted for malware and spam. The group who ran undercover of a company named Rove Digital managed to infect over 4 Million machines with a malware that changed the DNS of the users machine routing them to sites with ads supplied by rove digital.

FBI busts alleged DDoS Mafia in what is the first criminal case of ddos for hire

Four Romanian Nationals Charged with Allegedly Participating in Multimillion Dollar Scheme to Hack into and Steal Credit Card Data from U.S. Merchants

Jamtara police arrest three for phishing

Investigators spent nine months using technology and old-fashioned sleuthing to find four suspects who allegedly stole $1.8 million from a Calgary company. the operation involved the U.S. Secret Service and municipal police in Calgary and Vancouver - as well as in Montreal, where investigators arrested four Quebec-based suspects.

Two raided and arrested after a joint investigation by Europol, FBI and NCA into cyber crime offences.