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Romania
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Romanian arrested for ransomware attacks and data theft
Europol has confirmed arresting a Romanian national for targeting an IT firm in the country.
December 14, 2021
Colombia arrests suspect wanted by US over Gozi virus
The countries targeted by the Gozi virus included Finland, Germany, United States, and the United Kingdom with victims like NASA.
June 30, 2021
Malware service operators arrested; offered antivirus bypassing tools
The malware encryption service run by a Romanian duo helped hackers embed malicious code in legit software to bypass antivirus tools.
November 21, 2020
Authorities bust hacker group planning to hit hospitals with ransomware
PentaGuard Hackers Crew was operating from Romania.
May 16, 2020
World’s Largest Private Torrent Site Filelist.ro Seized
Romania Seizes Domain of the World’s Largest Private Torrent Site Filelist.ro...
May 7, 2020
20 years prison for Romanian hackers who infected 400,000 computers
Two Romanian hackers will be spending 20 and 18 years respectively in prison for infecting 400,000 computers.
December 10, 2019
1-year prison for man behind Blizzard’ World of Warcraft DDoS attacks
A Romanian cybercriminal has been sentenced to one year in US federal prison for conducting DDoS attacks on Blizzard's World of Warcraft's European servers back in 2010.
May 9, 2018
Dutch Police Nabs Romanian Gang for Stealing $590K worth of iPhones
Dutch Police are quite active these days, a couple of weeks ago they took over Hansa, one of…
August 1, 2017
Blue Whale Challenge: Anonymous Urges Teens to Quit Playing Suicide Game
A group of hacktivists connected to the online hacktivist group Anonymous is urging teens to quit taking part…
March 10, 2017
Firm loses $44m due to an online email scam
Europe’s largest Electrical Cables Manufacturer Leoni AG fell for an online scam and transferred $44m into a wrong bank account.…
September 3, 2016