Australian Police Arrest Two Alleged Members of Prolific Hacking Group TeamPCP
Australian police arrested two men allegedly linked to TeamPCP, a hacking group that compromised over 1,000 organizations through supply chain attacks.
That statement said the two men were charged with 14 offenses and were members of TeamPCP. The suspects, who were not named by police, lived in the Western Australian towns of Cottesloe and Mandurah. The security news site KrebsOnSecurity, citing a lengthy investigation, later identified both defendants and provided background on their lives and the mistakes that led to their downfall.
TeamPCP has vexed law enforcement officials and security personnel around the world since it emerged in December. The group is best known for a sustained series of supply chain attacks that laced open source software with malware that self-propagated from one package to another. The viral infections worked by targeting organizations’ CI/CD pipelines, which are used to rapidly develop, update, and deploy software.