A Texan teenager has pleaded guilty to one count of threats to kill, after an investigation by the FBI pinpointed him as the source of several hoax bomb threats and “swatting” calls to police in Minnesota, Ohio and Massachusetts.
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FBI again thwarts Tor to unmask visitors to a Dark Web child sex abuse site
Did the FBI plant a drive-by installation of some kind of malware on hundreds of thousands of computers so it could track down paedophiles?
Notorious cybercrime forum Darkode taken down, dozens arrested
Darkode, a notorious cybercrime marketplace for malware, zero-day exploits, and botnets, was permanently shut down by a massive law enforcement operation coordinated between agencies in the US, Europe and elsewhere.
Madonna Hacker who leaked songs sentenced to 14 months
A 39-year-old Israeli man accused of hacking the pop star Madonna has been sentenced to 14 months in jail, after a reaching a plea agreement with authorities.
Tax fraudster who hacked accounting firms pleads guilty in US court
A Bulgarian hacker has pleaded guilty to involvement in a conspiracy to use data stolen from several accounting firms for tax fraud. Should the IRS do more to protect taxpayers? 
Mystery vandals are cutting fiber-optic cables in California – how worried should we be?
Somebody is cutting underground fiber-optic cables in Northern California and the FBI wants to know why. Just how vulnerable is the internet to sabotage?
CryptoWall ransomware cost US victims at least $18 million, FBI says
The CryptoWall variant of crypto-ransomware cost US businesses and consumers at least $18 million between April 2014 and June 2015. The total damages could be much higher.
Feds seize man’s computers in raids connected to celebrity nude photo hack
The FBI’s investigation points to a ring of thieves who used phishing and password-reset scams to crack celebrities’ iCloud and email accounts and steal nude images.
IC3 urges social media users to beware: scams and fraud are surging
12% of the 269,422 complaints received in 2014 had a social media aspect, be it doxing, clickjacking or pharming. Here’s how to stay safe. 
“Los Pollos Hermanos” ransomware – what will they think of next?
The latest visual meme in ransomware comes from a cult TV show…about ficticious crooks. Paul Ducklin walks you through “PolloCrypt,” more correctly known as Troj/LPoLock-A…