A infamous hacker named USDoD, who’s linked to the Nationwide Public Information and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil’s Polícia Federal in “Operation Information Breach”.
USDoD, aka EquationCorp, has an extended historical past of high-profile information breaches the place he stole information and generally leaked it on hacking boards whereas taunting the victims.
These breaches embrace these on the FBI’s InfraGard, a risk data sharing portal, and Nationwide Public Information, the place the private information and social safety numbers of a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of US residents had been leaked on-line.
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Nevertheless, it wasn’t till the risk actor focused cybersecurity agency CrowdStrike and leaked the corporate’s inner risk actor listing that issues took a flip for the more serious for him.
Quickly after leaking the IOC listing, Brazilian writer Techmundo obtained an nameless report created by CrowdStrike that allegedly recognized, or doxed, the risk actor, revealing he was a 33-year-old Brazilian named Luan BG.
Surprisingly, USDoD confirmed that CrowdStrike’s data was correct in an interview with HackRead and stated he was presently dwelling in Brazil.
“So congrats to Crowdstrike for doxing me, they’re late for the get together, intel421 Plus and some different corporations already doxed me even earlier than the Infragard hack,” USDoD informed HackRead.
Doubtless aided by this data, Brazil’s Polícia Federal (PF) introduced his arrest right now in Belo Horizonte/MG.
“The Federal Police launched Operation Information Breach on Wednesday (16/10), with the intention of investigating invasions of the techniques of the Federal Police and different worldwide establishments,” reads the PF’s press launch.
“A search and seizure warrant and a preventive arrest warrant had been served within the metropolis of Belo Horizonte/MG towards an investigated individual suspected of being liable for two publications promoting Federal Police information, on Could 22, 2020 and on February 22, 2022.”
“The prisoner boasted of being liable for a number of cyber invasions carried out in some international locations, claiming, on web sites, to have disclosed delicate information of 80,000 members of InfraGard, a partnership between the Federal Bureau Investigation – FBI and personal vital infrastructure entities in the USA of America.”
Paradoxically, the arrest was performed below a regulation enforcement motion named “Operation Information Breach,” which the police say was named after the cyberattacks the risk actor was identified for.