A 21 -year -old former US Army soldier convicted at least ten telecommunications and technology companies for hacking and extracting.
Cameron John Wagonius was arrested on 20 December 2024 in Texas and accused in two cases of illegal transfer of confidential phone records in West district of Washington.
In February 2025, man pleaded guilty To hack the AT&T and Verizon, for which Connor opportunity and John Binswear in November 2024, their activities were linked to the major Snowflake Hacking incident.
According to the latest US DOJ announcement, Wagonius was active in underground cyberpace between 2023 and 2024 under the Alias ‘Kiberfent 0’, ‘Cyb3rph4NT0M’, and ‘buttholio’.
He conspired to demand ransom payments from breeched telecom firms as part of the threat to leaking stolen data on cybercrime forums such as the stealing of login credentials with others, accessing sensitive IT systems and leaking stolen data on cybercrime forums.
“Between April 2023 and 18 December, 2024, Cameron John Wagonius, 21, used online accounts associated with the surname” Kiberphant0m “and hatched a conspiracy with others, who received login credentials for the protected computer networks of organizations to cheat at least 10 aggrieved organizations by receiving login credentials,” US DOJ reads announcement,
“Conspirators received these credentials using a hacking tool, which he called SSH Bruti, in other ways.”
“They used Telegram Group Chat to move stolen credentials and to discuss unauthorized access to the network of victims.”
Wagenius and his co-co-ordinator were also engaged in sim-swapping and announced the sale of stolen data on the said forums, trying to recover forcibly up to $ 1 million.
It has been confirmed that the danger actors successfully sold this data to another cyber criminal or used it to eliminate further fraud.
Officials underlined that Wagonius demonstrated these activities while he was on active duty with the US Army.
Wagonous was Inspired on 14 July For wire fraud conspiracy, identity theft in relation to computer fraud, and forced recovery.
A message that he left one of the victims threatened to leak more than 358GB of data until the organization approached him to negotiate the ransom payment. In one email, another aggrieved company, Wagenius asked for $ 500,000 in Cryptocurrency.
One day after the prosecution, Wagonus entered plea agreementTo accept guilt on all three allegations.
Based on these allegations, the man faces a possible maximum punishment of up to 27 years in jail.
The sentence will be fixed on 6 October, and it may also include extra time Wagonius’s previous guilty petition For two cases of illegal transfer of confidential phone records related to separate cases.
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