Category: July

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, I had to push back the last few posts for this week […]

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. Clark who had the online aliases of “Plural of Mongoose”, “Variety Jones”, “VJ”, […]

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 managed to hack into 130+ high-profile Twitter accounts in a scam which netted them over $100,000 in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The hacked […]

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 attacks are regularly posted on their Telegram channel with links to the leaked data, and comments as to why they […]

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 Ukrainian forces attacking Russian troops, and was followed by the message “ПРИЙШОВ ЧАС ВІДПЛАТИ” which translates as “IT’S TIME FOR RETRIBUTION” or “IT’S TIME TO […]

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. The defendant who is now 18, has been deemed not fit to stand trial by medical professionals and so […]

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 documents recently released show that the defendant (Fitzpatrick) entered a guilty plea on three counts relating to: The maximum penalty for […]

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 tracked as APT 29 targeted diplomats working in at least 22 of the 80 foreign missions in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv […]

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 widely thought to be a pro-Russian outfit, disrupted access to Reddit for 2 hours in s DDoS attack. […]

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 officer. The Russian Investigative Committee suspect that the killer(s) waited to ambush Rzhitsky by examining his regular running […]