U.S. charges Iranian for hacks on defense orgs, offers $10M for info

March 1, 2024 at 09:47AM The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Alireza Shafie Nasab, an Iranian national, for cyber-espionage targeting U.S. government and defense entities. Operating from 2016 to April 2021, Nasab and co-conspirators employed phishing and hacking techniques to compromise over 200,000 devices, resulting in charges carrying 5 to 20 years in prison. The … Read more

Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

December 12, 2023 at 10:05AM Cloud engineer Miklos Daniel Brody was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $529,000 in restitution for wiping his former employer’s code repositories, First Republic Bank. The bank, with over 7,000 employees and $6.75 billion in annual revenue, closed on May 1, 2023, and was sold to … Read more