Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law
The Russian-U.S. national who hacked crypto exchange Bitfinex and stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin said he has been freed …
A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship
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In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine
Microchip manufacturers Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. were accused in a series of lawsuits …
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m). Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal — But separately “[...
Canada's financial crime watchdog fines crypto exchange Cryptomus a record ~$126M for infractions including failing to flag suspicious transactions
Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cyber...
Sources and docs: the US DOJ charges Peter Williams, ex-director of zero-day vendor L3Harris' Trenchant, with stealing trade secrets to sell to a Russian buyer
A director at a company that sells computer vulnerabilities has been charged with stealing secrets to sell to an unspecified buyer in Russia …
Ukraine arrests the suspected administrator of Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is at the Paris public prosecutor's request, with help from France and Europol
The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday …
French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group
A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested in France at the request of the United States, which accused …
A Rotterdam court sentences a Russian to three years in prison for breaching international sanctions by sharing sensitive ASML info with someone in Russia
A 43-year-old Russian was convicted Thursday of breaching international sanctions by sharing sensitive information …
Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin
A Russian court sentenced several members of the notorious REvil ransomware gang to five years in prison but let them walk free right …