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L0pht Heavy Industries (pronounced "loft") was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The L0pht was one of the first viable hackerspaces in the US, and a pioneer of responsible disclosure. [1]
Emotet is a malware strain and a cybercrime operation believed to be based in Ukraine. [1] The malware, also known as Heodo, was first detected in 2014 and deemed one of the most prevalent threats of the decade.
Black hat hackers may be novices or experienced criminals. They are usually competent infiltrators of computer networks and can circumvent security protocols. They may create malware, a form of software that enables illegitimate access to computer networks, enables the monitoring of victims' online activities, and may lock infected devices.
Convicted computer criminals are people who are caught and convicted of computer crimes such as breaking into computers or computer networks. [1] Computer crime can be broadly defined as criminal activity involving information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from ...
TeslaTeam is a group of black-hat computer hackers from Serbia established in 2010. TESO was a hacker group originating in Austria that was active primarily from 1998 to 2004. The Unknowns is a group of white-hat hackers that exploited many high-profiled websites and became very active in 2012 when the group was founded and disbanded.
Through the investigation, he was found to have committed further crimes after his initial arrest, and in August 2019, he pleaded guilty to, in 2017 and 2018, laundering money, committing Computer Misuse Act crimes, and breaching a SHPO.
Alexey Alexeevich Belan (Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Белан; born June 27, 1987) is a Latvian and Russian hacker on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals. [1] He has been accused of illegal access to the computer networks of three US companies in the states of Nevada and California.
A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. [1] Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, [2] challenge, recreation, [3] or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.