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A dual Chinese and St. Kitts and Nevis national was sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia for his role in an international cryptocurrency investment scheme (also known as pig butchering or romance baiting) that defrauded victims of more than $73 million. [...]
Linwei Ding Faces Decades in Prison for Trade Secret Theft, EspionageA federal jury in San Francisco convicted a former Google software engineer of stealing thousands of pages of confidential AI data and transferring it to Chinese technology companies. Linwei Ding is guilty of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of trade secret theft.
PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more Infosec In Brief Researchers have urged users of the glob file pattern matching library to update their installations, after discovery of a years-old remote code execution flaw in the tool's CLI.…
A Chinese woman known as the "Bitcoin Queen" was sentenced in London to 11 years and eight months in jail for laundering Bitcoin from a £5.5 billion ($7.3 billion) cryptocurrency investment scheme. [...]
A Chinese developer has been sentenced to four years in prison after being found to deploy malicious code in his employer’s network, including a “kill switch”
A 55-year-old Chinese national has been sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for sabotaging his former employer's network with custom malware and deploying a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled
Also: Ukrainian Hackers Find Evidence of Russian Child AbductionThis week, a Chinese duo arrested in Los Angeles for illegal artificial intelligence chip exports back to China, France extradited an accused Nigerian hacker, Ukraine hacked Crimean servers, Florida prison email leak, Tea App clone exposed users’ IDs.
Xu Zewei, Suspected Silk Typhoon Hacker, to Remain in Italian PrisonProsecutors at a Milan court on Friday rejected a house arrest request by lawyers of a Chinese national awaiting possible extradition to the United States in Italy, citing flight risk. Italian authorities arrested Xu Zewei, 33, of Shanghai, in July after his arrival at Milan's Malpensa Airport.
With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too RSAC Another RSAC has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to conference organizers. Hopefully, all of us made it home safely, didn't get deported to a Venezuelan prison, and didn't end up bringing home a virus - computer or corona.…
Also, a 'Perfect Tool' for Cyberespionage and EU Stocks Up on Burner PhonesThis week, the cyber insurance market could double, Europe to use burner phones in the U.S., a BPFDoor campaign, "Alcasec" faces Spanish prison, a Thai harassment campaign and charges in Taiwan for a Chinese captain. China stonewalled a Swedish cable cutting investigation. 4Chan image board hacked.
Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare A Chinese national faces a substantial stint in prison and heavy fines if found guilty of several additional charges related to economic espionage and theft of trade secrets at Google.…
Also: US Prosecutors Charge Suspected North Korean IT Worker CollaboratorsThis week, researchers spied Palo Alto firewall flaws, a North Korean IT worker conspiracy, ChatGPT as DDoS vector. Chinese hackers targeted a VPN maker, a fake PyPi package and a Russian threat actor shifted tactics. BreachForums admin faces prison and scammers used the release of Ross Ulbricht.
A 59-year-old U.S. citizen who immigrated from the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to act as a spy for the country and sharing sensitive information about his employer with China's principal civilian intelligence agency
Provides insight to how China gets inside US systems, perhaps at Verizon and Infosys A 59 year-old Florida telco engineer was sentenced to 48 months in prison after he served as a spy for China and provided Beijing with details like his employer’s cybersecurity, according to the US Department of Justice.…
Also: Bitfinex Launderer Razzlekhan Gets 18-Month SentenceThis week, sentences in FTX, Bitfinex and Helix cases, a $25.5M Thala hack, the WazirX hack and South Korea probed UpBit. U.S. lawmakers want a crackdown on Tornado. U.S. Prosecutors may scale back crypto cases. BIT Mining fined $10M and the Chinese Communist Party expelled a key blockchain figure
Two Chinese nationals were sentenced to prison for scamming Apple out of more than $2.5 million after exchanging over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones for authentic ones. [...]
Two Chinese nationals face 20 years in prison after being caught and convicted of submitting over 5,000 fake iPhones worth more than $3 million to Apple with the goal of having them replaced with genuine devices. [...]
Sent 5,000+ fake handsets to Apple for repair in hope of getting real ones back Two Chinese nationals are facing a maximum of 20 years in prison after being convicted of mailing thousands of fake iPhones to Apple for repair in the hope they'd be replaced with new handsets.…
Beijing isn't the only one spying on work computers, right GE? An ex-General Electric engineer has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of stealing the US giant's turbine technology for China.…
Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data. [...]