Google targets fake business reviews network in new lawsuit
Google has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Ethan QiQi Hu and his company, Rafadigital, accusing him of creating 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and 14,000 fake reviews for an alleged business verification service for Google services. […]
Former Ubiquiti dev who extorted the firm gets six years in prison
Nickolas Sharp, a former senior developer of Ubiquiti, was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing company data, attempting to extort his employer, and aiding the publication of misleading news articles that severely impacted the firm’s market capitalization. […]
DISH slapped with multiple lawsuits after ransomware cyber attack
Dish Network has been slapped with multiple class action lawsuits after it suffered a ransomware incident that was behind the company’s multi-day “network outage.” The legal actions aim to recover losses faced by DISH investors who were adversely affected by what has been dubbed a “securities fraud.” […]
Russian hacker convicted of $90 million hack-to-trade charges
Russian national Vladislav Klyushin was found guilty of participating in a global scheme that involved hacking into U.S. computer networks to steal confidential earnings reports, which helped the criminals net $90,000,000 in illegal profits. […]
Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer
Nickolas Sharp, a former Ubiquiti employee who managed the networking device maker’s cloud team, pled guilty today to stealing gigabytes worth of files from Ubiquiti’s network and trying to extort his employer while posing as an anonymous hacker and a whistleblower. […]