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Forever 21 has over 815 stores in 57 countries including the US, UK, Australia, China, India, Germany, Japan and Latin America.

"While these devices are never supposed to be exposed on the internet, we have shown that they can and will find their way directly on the internet," Trend Micro said.

28-year-old Todd Michael Gori was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for threatening cyberattacks against a company.

Symantec has warned that user interest, paired with detection by security firms, will "trigger a new arms race between cybercriminals and defenders".

"This case illustrates the Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) model, as the services were offered to any criminal online," Europol said.

Zachary Buchta admitted to running a phone-bombing scheme that let customers pay to target someone with relentless, harassing phone calls.

The new malware variant indicates that the hacking group is still active and continues to improve their product, researchers said.

While most of the names and some information in the Jacobs letter have been redacted, the letter outlines some shady unlawful activities within Uber's "ThreatOps" division.

Russian authorities are currently working to create a legal framework to regulate virtual currencies as their value and interest continues to boom.

Moscow had dismissed hacking allegations as "baseless" while Trump has continued to denounce the ongoing Russia probe as a "witch hunt".

David Chukwuneke Adindu tricked victims into wiring millions of dollars into bank accounts he opened in China.

Jha, a 21-year-old computer science student at Rutgers University, admitted to writing and implementing the Mirai code in July 2016.

The threat actors even provide instructions on how to download and use the Tor browser to access the payment site.

Numerous companies and websites have been found running similar code on their own sites to covertly generate digital currencies as an alternative to advertising.

Konstantin Kozlovsky said he began cooperating with the FSB back in 2008 at the age of 16 and "did everything that they said".

"This experience of searching and finding passwords within this database is as scary as it is shocking," researchers said.

The Vietnamese hacker has previously compromised numerous Vietnamese websites including those of telecom firms, banks and an online military newspaper.

Several popular websites and their software have already been found to be targeted by the StrongPity group.

The trojan's varied capabilities include disabling the light indicator on the webcam and even triggering the Blue Screen of Death if anyone tries to shut down the process.

As cryptocurrency continues to grow exponentially in popularity and value, this isn't the first time hackers have targeted a digital currency platform

Europol, the FBI and other European law enforcement authorities recently took down the massive Andromeda malware botnet that has been active since 2011.

The malware called "Troubleshooter" infects a targeted device and displays the infamous, nerve-rattling BSOD to unsuspecting users.

Konrads Voits used classic phishing, social engineering techniques and malware to carry out the attack over several months.

Over the past six months, the Andromeda botnet has been detected or blocked on an average of nearly 1.1 million machines a month.

"The security of TIO's systems and the protection of TIO's customers are our highest priorities," PayPal said.

He is already serving a 27-year sentence for a massive computer hacking and credit card fraud scheme targeting US businesses that resulted in nearly $170m in damages.

"The public will want to know how there could be this catastrophic breach of personal data security," London Mayor Sadiq Khan said.

Researchers at Fortinet said threat actors have been using the CVE-2017-11882 exploit which has been active for nearly a decade.

Karim Baratov admitted to hacking more than 11,000 email accounts in total for both the FSB and customers between 2010 until his arrest in March 2017.

"From an identity thief's perspective, it seems like the only question missing from this list is, 'What was the name of your first pet?'," security expert Brian Krebs said.