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Jessica Nordquist, a girl from London, was convicted for Cyber stalking and false accusation against her ex-boyfriend. Jessica dated Mark weeks for a brief period. Aggravated by their break up, she created fake instagram account to harass Mark weeks, faked her own kidnapping and also accused Mark for rape and impregnating her. She had written a kidnap note and left it at her london home. She had also sent an email consisting of photos of her tied up and naked to her friends, family and colleague...

A group of conmen in a remote village in Jharkhand, were caught for money laundering. They called people from various parts of the country , claiming to be their bankers and demanded that they tell the personal information or they would have their bank account suspended. This is called in ‘vishing’. These conmen called people who were gullible to their threatening. These conmen obtained credentials such as OTP/ATM pin, net banking passwords and then used this information, to eithe...

An Indian origin man along with 3 other hackers, created a Mirai botnet, a malware that connects the hosts device with the any other devices that uses the internet such a webcam, mobile phone, PC etc to connect with 100,000 by infecting them the malware and shut down several websites. However these offenders were only given probation. They were asked to give community service and be of assistance to the FBI and law enforcement , since they had skills that can be used to enhance cyber security...

A student, Zain Qaiser, had posted a lot of advertisments in pornograpghy websites which were widely spread in the major pornograpghy websites in the UK. When someone clicks on the advertisement a person would be directed to a ransomware link if the computer’s security is not protected by up-to-date anti virus.The ransomware appeared in the form of an FBI warning which stated that unless the payment(100-200 pounds) is made, the computer won't unlock itself and that the user would have ...

Two Employees of the CISCO Talos’ Cyber Security Division found that there were groups in facebook that were openly giving out bank credentials for money and some other groups that gave hacking and phishing services, paid. These groups were operating in facebook and had around 385000 followers to it. The employees from Cisco along with the internal security division of Facebook had dealt with this case jointly. The groups were shut down by Facebook as it was against the social norms on ...

This is a company from UK that employs hackers, who are generally in their teenage,  who are capable of reform. This company gives them a second chance to use their skills to prevent hacking and for enhancing cyber security. This company consists mostly of kids who were caught hacking and stealing personal information, but did not have any personal gain or malicious intent. This company is about giving second chances to such kids.These hackers are involved in Grey hat as well as white ha...