Australia charges two men for TeamPCP supply-chain hacking spree
Two men in Australia were charged Wednesday over their alleged membership in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group blamed for one of the most damaging hacking campaigns of the past year.
Australian authorities arrested two men accused of involvement with the hacking group TeamPCP, a cybercriminal organization that has allegedly carried out a large number of attacks on organizations worldwide, according to the Australian Federal Police. The two men were charged with 14 offenses, but their identities were not disclosed by authorities, except for being residents of Cottesloe and Mandurah in Western Australia.
The arrests came after an extensive investigation by KrebsOnSecurity, which reportedly provided the names of the defendants and detailed information about their lives and actions leading to their arrest. TeamPCP has been notorious for its series of supply chain attacks that targeted organizations' CI/CD pipelines to distribute malware.
The hacking group was first reported in December and has been a persistent threat to global cybersecurity since then.
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