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Child hacking warning for parents after boy, 8, orders AK-47 and free pizza online | UK | News

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Children as young as eight are learning to hack online

Children as young as eight are learning to hack online (stock image) (Image: Getty)

Parents have been warned to be careful of their child’s online behaviour after a UK mum says her eight-year-old son ordered a loaded AK-47 to their house.

Barbara told Express.co.uk about how her son got learned how to hack online from a young age – initially ordering pizza to their house for free, before having the fully automatic gun online delivered to her home as part of an online challenge.

Meanwhile, another young hacker tells of how he was expelled from school for breaking into their online systems after starting by simply watching YouTube.

Barbara said her son started to wake up “in the early hours to access the computer when the rest of the house was asleep.”

She added: “He was so involved in what he was doing that he had devised a coded language when speaking to people online, using phrases such as ‘Hey, Pitt is joining us.’… which meant I had entered the room and they needed to switch screens.

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“Once I cracked the code, I confronted him, and at this point the physical and mental stress he had put himself under finally made him reveal that he was collaborating with an international group of hackers.”

It started with the eight-year-old ordering pizzas to the house without paying for them from a local pizza company by tricking their computers into believing the food had been paid for, with his mother growing increasingly suspicious of his activities.

But Barbara stepped in when a fully loaded rifle arrived at the front door.

Her son had ordered it from the dark web, she said – an area of the internet only accessible through certain web browsers.

She said: “I was utterly shocked at first, I just couldn’t believe my son was capable of doing such things online. Subsequently, I felt worried and decided to take the matter into my own hands by seeking help from the police and reading up about the dark web.”

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The child used the dark web to order an AK-47 online as part of a challenge (stock image) (Image: Getty)

“I must say I was also impressed with his technical skills,” she added.

Barbara said he did it as part of…

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Spain Orders Extradition of British Alleged Hacker to U.S.

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Spain’s National Court has agreed to the extradition to the U.S. of a British citizen who allegedly took part in computer attacks, including the July 2020 hacking of Twitter accounts of public figures such as Joseph Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Gates.

A court statement Friday said requirements had been met for handing over Joseph James O’Connor to U.S. authorities for 14 charges covering crimes such as revelation of secrets, membership of a criminal gang, illegal access to computer systems, internet fraud, money laundering and extortion.

O’Connor, 23, from Liverpool, England was arrested in the southern Spanish coastal town of Estepona in July 2021.

He is accused of hacking some 130 Twitter accounts. The court document said he is also wanted for hacking the Snapchat account of an unidentified public figure whom he allegedly tried to extort with the threat of publishing nude photographs of the person.

He is also wanted for several cases of “swatting,” prank calls to emergency services aimed at getting large numbers of police to be sent to different locations.

The court rejected arguments by O’Connor’s lawyers that he should be tried in Spain since the servers he used were located there.

The statement said he is wanted by courts in the Northern District of California and the Southern District of New York. The extradition order can be appealed.

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FTC Orders Online Retailer CafePress to Improve Security After 2019 Hack

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The Federal Trade Commission on Friday ordered online retailer CafePress to strengthen its security measures and pay a $500,000 fine as part of a settlement over a 2019 breach affecting millions of customers’ personal data.

The final order mandates that the e-commerce site minimize its data collection, encrypt users’ Social Security numbers and institute multifactor authentication measures. The company also will have to undergo independent security audits every other year.

The settlement reflects how the agency under Chair Lina Khan has pushed prescriptive measures to curtail alleged data-privacy abuses and security lapses. The Biden appointee has promised to take a more aggressive approach to such issues as part of an expansive regulatory agenda.

The CafePress settlement stems from a February 2019 incident in which a hacker accessed data from the online retailer’s computer systems. The breached information included more than 20 million customer emails and passwords with allegedly inadequate encryption, as well 180,000 Social Security numbers stored in plain text. The FTC alleged that the e-commerce site failed to implement reasonable security protections, retained data longer than necessary and didn’t properly investigate the breach.

The order, finalized Friday, will cover CafePress for the next 20 years, requiring the e-commerce site to also report future cyber incidents to the FTC.

CafePress didn’t admit to wrongdoing as part of the settlement. A representative for PlanetArt LLC, which owns the online retailer, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Approved unanimously by FTC’s five commissioners, the order comes as the agency’s new Democratic…

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Expedite deal, France warns Iran as Khamenei orders nuclear progress

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ANKARA: Iran has escalated its longstanding cyber campaign against Turkey through state-sponsored hackers, who have targeted high-profile governmental and private websites in the country since November 2021.

Experts believe that the upgraded cyber assault is a reaction against Turkey’s attempts to normalize ties with countries such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

MuddyWater, a hacker group linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, is allegedly behind these cyber attacks, which involve infection vectors such as malicious PDF attachments and Microsoft Office documents embedded in phishing emails.

These malicious documents were titled in the Turkish language so they would present as legitimate texts coming from the Turkish health and interior ministries.

The malware attack was first observed by CISCO Talos Intelligence Group, one of the world’s biggest commercial threat-focused intelligence teams.

The emails to the target’s enterprise contained a link to a compromised website and used the name of the target institution as a parameter in the URL.

As part of a tactic known as web bug, the links are used to track when the messages are opened by the endpoint.

When the initial access to the victim is gained, the hacker group collects sensitive information from its network. 

MuddyWater is known for its attacks against government networks across the US, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia for the last two years, with the aim of conducting cyber-espionage for state interests, deploying ransomware and destructive malware and stealing intellectual property that has high economic value. 

“Iran has become an increasingly capable and sophisticated cyber actor since 2007,” Rich Outzen, a retired colonel in the US Army and senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, told Arab News. 

“Up to that time, there were cyber attacks and cyber crime emanating from Iran, but little evidence of state direction,” said Outzen. 

“Starting with the suppression of the Green Movement and Iran’s own experience as a target of cyber attacks on its sanctioned nuclear program, the emergence of an ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ under the guidance of the Islamic…

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