CYBERCRIME

The IMF said on Thursday it had identified computer files that were copied during a recent cyberattack and has no evidence information in emails or the fund's financial systems was compromised.

KIEV, June 23 - Ukraine's state security service on Thursday said it had broken up an international hacking ring that infiltrated foreign banks' computer networks and stole $72 million.

A suspected British computer hacker was being held on Thursday for questioning about cyber attacks against a British law enforcement agency and two music industry bodies.

Two Latvians have been charged in the United States for selling fake computer security software known as scareware and were arrested in Latvia, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Police in the United States and seven other countries seized computers and servers used to run a scareware scheme that has netted more than $72 million from victims tricked into buying fake anti-virus software.

Hackers collective LulzSec, which announced a cyberwar against corrupt governments earlier this week, became the shocking victim of a hack attack itself - rival hack group TeaMp0isoN hacked into the website of an alleged LulzSec member Swen Slootweg (who goes by the handle Joepie91) and warned LulzSec to back down, telling them: you will_NEVER_represent the real hacking scene.

Hacker arrested by British police; Lulzsec denies he is a member of their collective.

On the way of hacking government sites, LulzSec's own website was hacked by another hacker group. On the same day, Anonymous released a Youtube video to challenge the corrupt governments.

Hackers briefly disabled three websites belonging to the Brazilian government early on Wednesday in the latest of an international wave of cyber attacks on companies and organizations.

After targeting the U.K. the hacker collective LulzSec yesterday claimed responsibility for successful cyber attacks against two of the Brazilian Government's websites.

The reclusive teenage hacker arrested in Britain on Tuesday could prove vital clues to the terror ring of super-brain hackers who torment governments and the biggest of corporations in the world no end.

Australia's government unveiled legislation on Wednesday to crack down on cybercrime in the wake of recent cyber attacks on multinational companies and institutions, from Google to the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Senate.

LulzSec sought to teach snitches a lesson on Tuesday night. Earlier, UK media reported that UK authorities arrested a 19-year-old LulzSec hacker. He was referred to by some as the mastermind of the group.

Each week brings word of another cyber attack on a major U.S. institution, sending law enforcement scrambling and raising new questions about whether it has the ability or resources to track down cyber criminals.

Social networking sites, including Facebook, are not doing enough to protect children from online bullying and potential sexual predators, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

As the news of the arrest of 19-year old mastermind behind the hacker group LulzSec spread, they tweeted: Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?

LulzSec and Anonymous have tied up and is up for anything, 'virtually' anything. They call it Operation Anti-Security. Until the hacker's union's demands are met, LulzSec and Anonymous wouldn't budge. And what they demand is a tad too complicated to achieve. Hackers United wrecking havoc across internet spaces is demanding complete internet freedom with no privacy infiltration from government agencies. If not they will steal and leak any classified government information, ...

Apparently the masses are spreading the word, in what looks like a people's movement against corruption. CBS8 reported a mysterious serial graffiti that appeared on the boardwalk near Mission Beach, San Diego. The crude stencil graffiti read #ANtiSec, The Anti-Sec Revolution and AntiSec! along with a LulzSec Mascot.

Hacking group LulzSec will partner with Anonymous, another group of established hackers, to declare an open war against all government sites, banks and big corporations in the world, under the auspices of an initiative called Operation Anti-Security.

Internet hacking group LulzSec took down UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) website with a barrage of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

The two groups are teaming together to hack government institutions.