Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, and Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, were arrested in Perth yesterday in a joint AFP/FBI operation. TeamPCP compromised 1,000+ organizations worldwide by injecting malicious code into open-source security tools like Trivy, Checkmarx KICS, and LiteLLM, stealing 500,000+ corporate credentials from CI/CD pipelines and 300GB of data.
Both denied bail. 14 combined charges including hacking, identity crime, and crypto money laundering. Up to 82 years combined if convicted. Krebs on Security identified Thomson as "Ellis," the group's leader until March 2026. More arrests expected.
The two guys who humiliated Microsoft got caught in their parents' house in Perth. 👇
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