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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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(21/07/23) Blog 202 – Kevin Mitnick (06/08/63 – 16/07/23)

I knew I was going to have a busy week this week, so I had already penned many of this weeks posts and had them scheduled for publication. However, on hearing of the death of Kevin Mitnick yesterday, ...

Mark
21/07/2023
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(20/07/23) Blog 201 – Silk Road advisor sentenced to 20 years behind bars

Roger Thomas Clark, a 61-yr old Canadian who acted as the mentor to the Silk Road founder and administrator Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced by a New York judge to spend the next 20 years in jail. Cla...

Mark
20/07/2023
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(19/07/23) Blog 200 – Twitter hacker from UK sentenced to five years behind bars

In July 2020, Liverpudlian hacker, Joseph James O’Connor committed a grandiose attack against Twitter and millions of its users. Under the online alias of PlugWalkJoe, O’Connor and others ...

Mark
19/07/2023
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(18/07/23) Blog 199 – SiegedSec – Gay Furry hackers on global hacking spree

A group of gay furry hackers working under the name SiegedSec have been targeting various organisations across the globe, in many cases leaving messages about trans-rights. The details of their attack...

Mark
18/07/2023
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(17/07/23) Blog 198 – Russian state TV hacked – ‘Payback time’ message displayed

Mainstream broadcasters across the Russian empire were targeted in a cyber attack which saw a Ukrainian defence ministry video played during prime-time TV viewing. The footage showed Ukraini...

Mark
17/07/2023
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(16/07/23) Blog 197 – Teenage hacker identified as being behind Uber and Rockstar attacks

Southwark Crown Court has lifted a reporting restriction which has now allowed the naming of teenager Arion Kurtaj as the hacker accused of targeting Uber, Revolut, and Rockstar Games last September. ...

Mark
16/07/2023
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(15/07/23) Blog 196 – Pompompurin enters guilty plea for hacking & child pornography

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (A.K.A. Pompompurin) who was the the owner of breached.vc the notorious hacking forum, has plead guilty to charges of hacking and possession of child pornography. Court documen...

Mark
15/07/2023
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(14/07/23) Blog 195 – Cosy Bear targets Ukrainian diplomats with fake BMW advert

A number of Ukrainian officials were targeted in a scam designed to infiltrate their devices and exfiltrate sensitive data. The espionage activity launched by Russian threat actors who are globbally t...

Mark
14/07/2023
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(13/07/23) Blog 194 – Anonymous Sudan claim Reddit, AO3 and other scalps

Hacking group Anonymous Sudan have this week affected a number of high-profile websites in a wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. On Monday (10th July) the hacking gang, which are wid...

Mark
13/07/2023
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(12/07/23) Blog 193 – Strava running route data suspected in Russian murder

42 year-old Stanislav Rzhitsky was shot dead on Monday (10th July) whilst out jogging in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. Rzhitsky was an ex-naval submarine captain who worked as a mobilisation...

Mark
12/07/2023
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