Jordanian national pleads guilty after unknowingly selling FBI agent access to 50 company networks

Jordanian national pleads guilty after unknowingly selling FBI agent access to 50 company networks

A 40-year-old Jordanian national pleaded guilty Thursday to operating as an access broker, selling access to at least 50 victim company networks he broke into by exploiting two commercial firewall products in 2023, according to the Justice Department. Feras Khalil Ahmad Albashiti, who lived in the Republic of Georgia at the time, sold an undercover FBI agent unauthorized access to the victim networks on a cybercrime forum under the moniker “r1z”…

Jordanian National Pleads Guilty After Unknowingly Selling FBI Agent Access To 50 Company Networks - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

A 40-year-old Jordanian national pleaded guilty Thursday to operating as an access broker, selling access to at least 50 victim company networks he broke into by exploiting two commercial firewall products in 2023, according to the Justice Department. Feras Khalil Ahmad Albashiti, who lived in the Republic of Georgia at the time, sold an undercover FBI agent unauthorized access to the victim networks on a cybercrime forum under the moniker “r1z”…

Jordanian initial access broker pleads guilty to helping target 50 companies

The operator of a cybercrime forum account known as "r1z" could spend up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to selling malware built to break into corporate networks.