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Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Released From Prison, Still Owes Millions
Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO
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Hacker Gary Bowser released from prison early, still owes Nintendo $14.5 million
In April 2020, Bowser, who shares the same name as Nintendo of America’s president (and a certain Nintendo character), was arrested along with fellow Team Xecuter member Max Louarn on 11 felony counts of piracy. The group created tools like modchips and jailbreaks that allowed buyers to circumvent Nintendo’s security…
Teen hacker arrested in Spain following daring cyberattacks
Operation Cookie Monster shuts off hacker marketplace selling millions of stolen accounts
Several law enforcement agencies have teamed up to take down Genesis Market, a website selling access to “over 80 million account access credentials,” which included the standard usernames and passwords, as well as much more dangerous data like session tokens. According to a press release from the US Department of Justice, the site was seized on Tuesday. The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (or Europol) says that 119 of the site’s users have been arrested.
Genesis Marketplace has been around since 2018, according to the Department of Justice, and was “one of the most prolific initial access brokers (IABs) in the cybercrime world.” It let hackers search for certain types of credentials, such as ones for social media…
Hacker demonstrates security flaws in GPT-4 just one day after launch
US authorities arrest alleged BreachForums owner and FBI hacker Pompompurin
US law enforcement authorities this week arrested the person allegedly responsible for hacking the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2021. As reported by Krebs on Security (via The Verge), FBI agents on Wednesday arrested Conor Brian Fitzpatrick on suspicion of running BreachForums. As Brian Krebs notes, the website’s administrator, “Pompompurin,” is responsible for or connected to some of the most high-profile hacks in recent memory, including multiple incidents involving the FBI.
In 2021, Pompompurin took credit for compromising the agency’s email servers and sending thousands of fake cybersecurity warnings. Pompompurin is also linked to the 2022 breach of the FBI’s InfraGard network, an incident that saw the contact information of its more than 80,000 members go on sale. Separately, Pompompurin is connected to the 2021 Robinhood hack that saw the data of 7 million users compromised, and the 2022 Twitter data leak.
In a sworn affidavit, one of the FBI agents involved in the arrest claims Fitzpatrick identified himself as Pompompurin and admitted to being the owner of BreachForums. The forum rose from the ashes of RaidForums, which the FBI raided and shut down last year. For the moment, BreachForums is still up and running. “I think it’s safe to assume [Pompompurin] won’t be coming back, so I’ll be taking ownership of the forum,” said a user named Baphomet. “I have most, if not all the access necessary to protect BF infrastructure and users.” Fitzpatrick will appear before a federal court on March 24th.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/us-authorities-arrest-alleged-breachforums-owner-and-fbi-hacker-pompompurin-170009266.html?src=rss
Acer confirms data breach after hacker lists trove of stolen material for sale
Earlier this week, a hacker published a classified ad for 160GB of “various confidential stuff” from Acer. The seller claimed the haul consists of 2,869 files across 655 directories and includes a variety of content such as service manuals, ISO files, BIOS and ROM files, confidential slides / presentations and more.
A Hacker Installed a Keylogger on a LastPass Engineer’s PC to Pwn the Company’s Cloud
Beleaguered password manager LastPass has announced yet another serious security screwup and, this time, it may be the final straw for some users.