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UK National Sentenced to Prison for Role in “The Dark Overlord” Hacking Group
Defendant Conspired to Steal Sensitive Personally Identifying Information from Victim Companies and Release those Records on Criminal Marketplaces unless Victims Paid Bitcoin Ransoms
A United Kingdom national pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and computer fraud, and was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Ronnie White for the Eastern District of Missouri sentenced Nathan Wyatt, 39, who participated in a computer hacking collective known as “The Dark Overlord,” which targeted victims in the St. Louis area beginning in 2016. Wyatt was extradited from the United Kingdom to the Eastern District of Missouri in December 2019. Judge White also ordered Wyatt to pay $1,467,048 in restitution.
“Nathan Wyatt used his technical skills to prey on Americans’ private data and exploited the sensitive nature of their medical and financial records for his own personal gain,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s guilty plea and sentence demonstrate the department’s commitment to ensuring that hackers who seek to profit by illegally invading the privacy of Americans will be found and held accountable, no matter where they may be located.”
“The Dark Overlord has victimized innumerable employers in the United States, many of them repeatedly, said U.S Attorney Jeff Jensen of the Eastern District of Missouri. “I am grateful to the victims who came forward despite ransom threats and to the prosecutors and agents who were the first to catch and punish a member of The Dark Overlord in the United States.”
“Cyber hackers mistakenly believe they can hide behind a keyboard,” said Special Agent in Charge Richard Quinn of the FBI’s St. Louis Field Office. “In this case, the FBI demonstrated once again that it will impose consequences on cyber criminals no matter how long it takes or where they are located.”
Wyatt admitted that, beginning in 2016, he was a member of The Dark Overlord, a hacking group that was responsible for remotely accessing the computer networks of multiple U.S. companies without authorization. Victims in the Eastern District of Missouri included healthcare providers, accounting firms, and others. Wyatt admitted that The Dark Overlord co-conspirators acted by obtaining sensitive data from victim companies, including patient medical records and personal identifying information, and then threatening to release the companies’ stolen data unless the companies paid a ransom of between $75,000 and $350,000 in bitcoin.
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Defendant Conspired to Steal Sensitive Personally Identifying Information from Victim Companies and Release those Records on Criminal Marketplaces unless Victims Paid Bitcoin Ransoms
A United Kingdom national pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and computer fraud, and was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Ronnie White for the Eastern District of Missouri sentenced Nathan Wyatt, 39, who participated in a computer hacking collective known as “The Dark Overlord,” which targeted victims in the St. Louis area beginning in 2016. Wyatt was extradited from the United Kingdom to the Eastern District of Missouri in December 2019. Judge White also ordered Wyatt to pay $1,467,048 in restitution.
“Nathan Wyatt used his technical skills to prey on Americans’ private data and exploited the sensitive nature of their medical and financial records for his own personal gain,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s guilty plea and sentence demonstrate the department’s commitment to ensuring that hackers who seek to profit by illegally invading the privacy of Americans will be found and held accountable, no matter where they may be located.”
“The Dark Overlord has victimized innumerable employers in the United States, many of them repeatedly, said U.S Attorney Jeff Jensen of the Eastern District of Missouri. “I am grateful to the victims who came forward despite ransom threats and to the prosecutors and agents who were the first to catch and punish a member of The Dark Overlord in the United States.”
“Cyber hackers mistakenly believe they can hide behind a keyboard,” said Special Agent in Charge Richard Quinn of the FBI’s St. Louis Field Office. “In this case, the FBI demonstrated once again that it will impose consequences on cyber criminals no matter how long it takes or where they are located.”
Wyatt admitted that, beginning in 2016, he was a member of The Dark Overlord, a hacking group that was responsible for remotely accessing the computer networks of multiple U.S. companies without authorization. Victims in the Eastern District of Missouri included healthcare providers, accounting firms, and others. Wyatt admitted that The Dark Overlord co-conspirators acted by obtaining sensitive data from victim companies, including patient medical records and personal identifying information, and then threatening to release the companies’ stolen data unless the companies paid a ransom of between $75,000 and $350,000 in bitcoin.
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UK National Sentenced to Prison for Role in “The Dark Overlord” Hacking Group
A United Kingdom national pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and computer fraud, and was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
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A new license to hack
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is to be allowed to hack mobile phone and Internet providers quite legally in the future. This is the result of the new BND draft law, which we are publishing. The Federal Constitutional Court had classified the old law as unconstitutional and overturned it.
The German Federal Intelligence Service is looking for hackers (m/f/d) via job advertisement and overwrites an employee story with a license to hack. Business trips abroad belong to the intelligence hackers like "unique" attack tools with which they are supposed to penetrate computer networks and collect data. The focus of the BND is on networks outside Germany. For a long time, the secret service agents considered non-European countries in particular to be "outlawed".
In May, the Federal Constitutional Court set the BND the highest judicial limits. The judges from Karlsruhe made it clear: Even abroad, the German state is bound by basic rights; human dignity and the secrecy of telecommunications apply not only to Germans. The highest court declared the only four-year-old BND law of the Grand Coalition unconstitutional.
The legislator must therefore amend the BND law by the end of 2021. The Federal Chancellery has prepared a draft bill and sent it to the other ministries on Friday. We publish the draft law in full text.
As the employer of the secret service, the Federal Chancellery tries with the new law to comply with the court's requirements on the one hand and to restrict the BND as little as possible on the other hand. This can be seen among other things in the offensive hacking powers.
👀 👉🏼 Translated from German with DeepL:
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Draft law amending the law on the Federal Intelligence Service to implement the provisions of the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling of 19 May 2020 (1 BvR 2835/17)
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/#2020-09-25_Bundeskanzleramt_Referentenentwurf_BND-Gesetz
#bnd #germany #secretservice #law #hacking #netpolitics #thinkabout
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The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is to be allowed to hack mobile phone and Internet providers quite legally in the future. This is the result of the new BND draft law, which we are publishing. The Federal Constitutional Court had classified the old law as unconstitutional and overturned it.
The German Federal Intelligence Service is looking for hackers (m/f/d) via job advertisement and overwrites an employee story with a license to hack. Business trips abroad belong to the intelligence hackers like "unique" attack tools with which they are supposed to penetrate computer networks and collect data. The focus of the BND is on networks outside Germany. For a long time, the secret service agents considered non-European countries in particular to be "outlawed".
In May, the Federal Constitutional Court set the BND the highest judicial limits. The judges from Karlsruhe made it clear: Even abroad, the German state is bound by basic rights; human dignity and the secrecy of telecommunications apply not only to Germans. The highest court declared the only four-year-old BND law of the Grand Coalition unconstitutional.
The legislator must therefore amend the BND law by the end of 2021. The Federal Chancellery has prepared a draft bill and sent it to the other ministries on Friday. We publish the draft law in full text.
As the employer of the secret service, the Federal Chancellery tries with the new law to comply with the court's requirements on the one hand and to restrict the BND as little as possible on the other hand. This can be seen among other things in the offensive hacking powers.
👀 👉🏼 Translated from German with DeepL:
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Draft law amending the law on the Federal Intelligence Service to implement the provisions of the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling of 19 May 2020 (1 BvR 2835/17)
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/#2020-09-25_Bundeskanzleramt_Referentenentwurf_BND-Gesetz
#bnd #germany #secretservice #law #hacking #netpolitics #thinkabout
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BND-Gesetz: Eine neue Lizenz zum Hacken – netzpolitik.org
Der Bundesnachrichtendienst soll künftig ganz legal Mobilfunk- und Internetanbieter hacken dürfen. Das geht aus dem Entwurf zum neuen BND-Gesetz hervor, den wir veröffentlichen. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hatte das alte Gesetz als verfassungswidrig eingestuft…