The U.S. Justice Department charged Moldovan national Alexander Lefterov, the owner and operator of a large-scale botnet that infected thousands of computers across the United States.
Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been charged with stealing trade secrets related to artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing data centres while secretly working for Chinese companies.
U.S. authorities charged an Iranian national for long-running hacking campaign Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2024 The U.S. DoJ charged Iranian national Alireza Shafie Nasab for his role in attacks targeting U.S. government and defense entities. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Iranian national Alireza Shafie Nasab (39) for multi-year hacking campaign targeting U.S. defense […]
Dec 18, 2023NewsroomCryptocurrency / Online Scam Four U.S. nationals have been charged for participating in an illicit scheme that earned them more than $80 million via cryptocurrency investment scams. The defendants – Lu Zhang, 36, of Alhambra, California; Justin Walker, 31, of Cypress, California; Joseph Wong, 32, Rosemead, California; and Hailong Zhu, 40, Naperville, Illinois […]
Four US residents have been charged with a series of money laundering offenses connected to a major “pig butchering” fraud syndicate. Lu Zhang, 36, of Alhambra, California; Justin Walker, 31, of Cypress, California; Joseph Wong, 32, of Rosemead, California; and Hailong Zhu, 40, of Naperville, Illinois, are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, concealment […]
Finland on Wednesday charged a hacker, accused of the theft of tens of thousands of records from psychotherapy patients, with over 21,000 counts of extortion, the national prosecutor announced. “The suspect is held on remand and has denied being guilty of the offenses,” the National Prosecution Authority said in a statement. The prosecutor is seeking […]