Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity in addition to being members of ViLE, both Weep and Ominous are or were staff members for Doxbin, a highly toxic online community that provides a forum for digging up personal information on people and posting it publicly. “Singh also uses the threat of revealing personal information to extort victims into giving him access to their social media accounts, which Singh then resells.”
“Victims are extorted into paying CC-1 to have their information removed from Forum-1,” prosecutors allege. The government refers to this community only as “ Forum-1,” saying that it is administered by the leader of ViLE (referenced in the complaint as “CC-1”). The complaint says once they obtained a victim’s information, Singh and Ceraolo would post the information in an online forum. unlawfully using official email accounts belonging to other countries. accessing a nonpublic United States government database without authorization searching public and private online databases co-opting and corrupting corporate insiders submitting fraudulent legal process to social media companies to elicit users’ registration information The government alleges the defendants and other members of ViLE use various methods to obtain victims’ personal information, including: “ViLE is collaborative, and the members routinely share tactics and illicitly obtained information with each other,” prosecutors charged. The Justice Department says Singh and Ceraolo belong to a group of cybercriminals known to its members as “ ViLE,” who specialize in obtaining personal information about third-party victims, which they then use to harass, threaten or extort the victims, a practice known as “doxing.” Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York today unsealed criminal complaints against Sagar Steven Singh - a.k.a “ Weep” - a 19-year-old from Pawtucket, Rhode Island and Nicholas Ceraolo, 25, of Queens, NY, who allegedly went by the handles “ Convict” and “ Ominus.”
Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S.
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