An nameless reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Two U.S. males have been charged with hacking right into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Company (DEA) on-line portal that faucets into 16 completely different federal legislation enforcement databases. Each are alleged to be half of a bigger legal group that makes a speciality of utilizing faux emergency information requests from compromised police and authorities electronic mail accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. Prosecutors for the Japanese District of New York at this time unsealed legal complaints in opposition to Sagar Steven Singh — also called “Weep” — a 19-year-old from Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Nicholas Ceraolo, 25, of Queens, NY, who allegedly additionally glided by the handles “Convict” and “Ominus.” The Justice Division says Singh and Ceraolo belong to a bunch of cybercriminals identified to its members as “ViLE,” who concentrate on acquiring private details about third-party victims, which they then use to harass, threaten or extort the victims, a observe often known as “doxing.” […]
The federal government alleges that on Could 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log right into a U.S. federal authorities portal with out authorization. The grievance does not specify which company portal was hacked, but it surely does state that the portal included entry to legislation enforcement databases that observe narcotics seizures in the US. [On May 12, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news.] Prosecutors say they tied Singh to the federal government portal hack as a result of he linked to it from an Web tackle that he’d beforehand used to entry a social media account registered in his identify. After they raided Singh’s residence on Sept. 8, 2022 and seized his units, investigators with Homeland Safety discovered a cellular telephone and laptop computer that allegedly “contained in depth proof of entry to the Portal.” If convicted, Ceraolo faces as much as 20 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit wire fraud; each Ceraolo and Singh face 5 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit laptop intrusions.
A duplicate of the grievance in opposition to Ceraolo and Singh is right here (PDF).
