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Swedish man pleads guilty to peddling Blackshades malware

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A Swedish man pleaded guilty Wednesday to peddling one of the most prevalent spying programs called Blackshades that was widely used by the criminal underground.

Alex Yucel, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing malicious software. He could face a maximum of 10 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. He is expected to be sentenced on May 22.

BlackShades, a remote access trojan, was marketed by its developers as a program for legitimate computer monitoring but was mostly used for stealing payment card data, recording a computer’s keystrokes and secretly controlling webcams. It was sold for between US$ 40 to $ 100.

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Kitchener computer security expert pleads guilty to child porn charge – Waterloo Record

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Kitchener computer security expert pleads guilty to child porn charge
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KITCHENER — For a renowned computer security expert, Paul Anton Sop wasn't very good at covering his criminal tracks. The Kitchener man rose to fame in 1996 when he founded a security software company in his basement. Intellitactics grew into a …

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Ex-Cisco employee pleads guilty to second-degree murder in ‘Google Maps case’

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Ex-Cisco engineer Brad Cooper, whose first-degree murder conviction for the 2008 strangulation slaying of his wife Nancy was overturned last year based on disputed Google Maps-related evidence, today pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

According to North Carolina media reports, Cooper will be sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison and has agreed to allow the adoption of his two young daughters by Nancy Cooper’s sister. Whether the sentence includes time served was not clear.

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NYPD detective pleads guilty to hacking fellow police officers’ email and phone

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Edwin Vargas was charged with using PayPal to hire someone to hack login details for at least 43 personal email accounts, including those of 20 current or former NYPD officers.
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