Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Charged in Australia Over Major Supply Chain Attacks
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS and the AI gateway LiteLLM. Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, and Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on August 27,
Two men, aged 21 and 23, from Western Australia have been arrested by Australian authorities on suspicion of belonging to a cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) stated that the suspects were apprehended as part of a "sophisticated cybercrime syndicate" that allegedly created malicious open-source software to steal sensitive information from thousands of global businesses. The AFP did not disclose the identities of the two men involved.
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