This will be this week’s moron of the podcast, at least one of them. Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal is the Krebs article which talks about 2 men who were recently arrested.
Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.
Learn more about the EDR problem by listening to podcast 94 which is available to download. You never know who is swept up in these types of requests and I felt that this was important for this community I serve to have.
Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York today unsealed criminal complaints against Sagar Steven Singh — a.k.a “Weep” — a 19-year-old from Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Nicholas Ceraolo, 25, of Queens, NY, who allegedly went by the handles “Convict” and “Ominus.”
To add insult to injury, one paragraph after skipping a bunch of paragraphs says:
The complaint says once they obtained a victim’s information, Singh and Ceraolo would post the information in an online forum. The government refers to this community only as “Forum-1,” saying that it is administered by the leader of ViLE (referenced in the complaint as “CC-1”).
There’s a lot more, and this will be linked within our show notes when the podcast is made available.
Guys, welcome to the moron of the podcast, and let’s see what happens with this case.
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