Tag Archives: Arrest

Earlier this year, the group known as ‘LAPSUS$' was found to be responsible for cyber attacks on Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung. After some investigation, a group of teenagers from the UK were arrested in connection with the attacks. Now, it appears that another UK member of this cyber group has …

A New York man was apprehended at the end of last year on the grounds that he was responsible for a string of thefts across a number of Apple Stores, but the charges were dropped almost immediately when it was identified to be a false arrest. Now, the victim has …

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange has been residing in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, after seeking asylum to avoid being extradited to Sweden. After being holed up in the embassy for seven years, this week, Ecuador withdrew Assange's asylum status, allowing British police to go in and arrest him. …

Back in 2017, we learned that Samsung's former head and heir to the company, Jay Y. Lee, was arrested in South Korea, with special prosecutors charging him with bribery and embezzlement. Lee was eventually found guilty of perjury, embezzlement and bribery, with a judge handing down a five year prison …

Back in early August, we learned that Marcus Hutchins, otherwise known as MalwareTech online, was arrested by the FBI and charged with various offences. At the time, other cyber security researchers were shocked by the arrest and voiced their support. Hutchins was eventually released on bail under strict conditions but …

Earlier this year, Samsung’s former acting head and heir to the company, Jay Y. Lee, was arrested in South Korea, with special prosecutors charging him of bribery and embezzlement. The arrest occurred back in February and since then, the trial has been under way, with Lee being found guilty of …

Back when the WannaCry malware attack hit several months ago and began causing panic, one young British security researcher, Marcus Hutchins, made headlines after discovering a way to stop the ransomware in its tracks. At the time, he was applauded for his efforts but in a surprise twist, the FBI …

Following last week's arrest of acting head and heir to Samsung Lee Jae-yong, the company has finally spoken out on the bribery charges. It turns out Samsung's head was embroiled in a bribery scandal involving politicians over in South Korea, in response, Samsung is now promising greater transparency and oversight with …

Jay Y. Lee, the heir apparent of Samsung and a billionaire in his own right, is set to be indicted on charges of bribery and embezzlement, following his arrest last week after months of investigation by prosecutors. If found guilty, he faces potentially years in a South Korean jail. Lee has …

Following an investigation by the South Korean Special Prosecution Office and a petitioning of the courts to grant it a warrant, the heir-apparent and vice-chairman of Samsung, Jay Y. Lee, has been arrested. This case is linked with the impeachment of current President, Park Geun-hye, the investigation into whom is still ongoing. …

The head of one of Russia's largest anti-piracy agencies has been arrested and charged with fraud, stemming from an alleged incident where he offered to drop the case against a well known pirate site in exchange for monetary compensation. He is said to have demanded as much as 50 million …

Gambling has been a big subject in the videogame world recently after it was discovered that a few large YouTubers were leveraging their influence to promote betting sites to a young, impressionable audience. Since then, authorities in the UK have been digging around and now, the first prosecutions have been …

Although the music and movie industry have largely stopped going after individual pirates with lawsuits – unless you're the makers of Dallas Buyers Club – it hasn't stopped trying to take down those responsible for uploading content. In the finale of arrests made in early 2013, four men from the UK …

The person allegedly behind the recent hack of several million children's accounts on the VTech Innotab tablet has been arrested. The 21 year old from the UK was said to have exposed information, pictures and audio recordings of as many as 6.4 million children and their parents after cracking the …

Arrests are still being made as the police continue to investigate exactly what went down in the TalkTalk hack, which saw customer details accessed, presumably to then be used as part of a mass phishing scam or sold on to others. The fifth arrest was made this week in connection …

The police have been really cracking down on the people behind the TalkTalk hack a couple of weeks back, with four people now arrested in total. Yesterday, police made their way to Norwich to arrest and search the home of a 16 year old connected to the crime, which saw …

The UK police have managed to track down and arrest a second suspect in the TalkTalk hacking case, which saw the personal information of the ISP's customers stolen. The second suspect was arrested in London on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences after detectives searched his home. The first arrest …

The UK police have managed to track down and arrest a suspect in the TalkTalk hacking case, which saw the financial information of customers stolen. The suspect is just 15 years old and was arrested in Northern Ireland, the police's own report also says that the boy's premises will be searched …

Although most lobby groups seem to have decided against the idea of prosecuting individual downloaders, if for no other reason that the costly lawsuits don't really perturb other pirates, they do still go after uploaders. One man in the UK has found that out all to well, after the 38 …

One of the two agents accused of siphoning off Bitcoins during the investigation of the Silk Road dark-net marketplace, has pleaded guilty. Ex-Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges, 33, appeared in federal court and admitted to money laundering and obstruction of justice, having secretly moved over $800,000 worth of the digital …

A pair of individuals, one 18 the other 27, visiting the Pokémon World Championships in Boston this weekend, have been arrested and detained following the discovery of several illegal guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in their vehicle. Event security were alerted to the pair when they posted images of …

Along with the claims of Silk Road founder, Ross Ulbricht's defence team that he was the real Dread Pirate Roberts, Mt. Gox's old CEO, Mark Karpeles has been linked with the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of bitcoins worth many tens of millions and it looks like enough evidence has …

One of Lizard Squad's members, a 17 year old teen from Canada, has appeared in court and pleaded guilty to 23 charges relating to online abuse. He was charged with counts of extortion, criminal harassment and public mischief. Since the boy is only 17, he can't be named publicly but …

With the election heating up over the next few weeks and discussions about everything from immigration to the NHS being thrown at each respective candidate, one topic seems far from their minds, despite its relevance. Sex, pornography and their various respective industries have been under attack in the UK for …

At this point in time, only one of the original founders of torrent search site The Pirate Bay is still behind bars for crimes related to the site, and that's Fredrik Neij. Arrested last year after being picked up crossing the border between Laos and Thailand, he was sent back to …

The Department of Justice over in the US has announced charges against three individuals over the theft of more than 1 billion email addresses over a three-year period. According to the indictment, Vietnamese citizen, Viet Quoc Nguyan, broke in to eight different email providers, harvesting a ton of personal information. …

19-year-old American, Brandon Wilson, was recently arrested and had his Las Vegas home raided in connection to several incidents of swatting. Swatting has become a significant problem for live streamers over the last year or two. For those who don't know, swatting is a ‘prank' in which a hoax call is …

The once upon a time head of the MegaUpload file locker's software development division, Andrus Nomm, has been arrested in the USA on charges of copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit racketeering. While the Estonian national was once named as a major player in the development of the defunct file …

The UK police have arrested a second member of online troll group, Lizard Squad, following the Christmas day DDOS attacks on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. An 18 year old was taken in to custody today after being linked directly to the attacks. The arrest was carried out by …

Eight years after the Pirate Bay servers were first raided be police, two and a half years since he went on the run and six months since he was arrested, Peter Sunde, the torrent site's official spokesperson until 2009, has been released from jail. He's now a free man, making …