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#1 The Hacker News general August 27, 2026 at 11:56 UTC

Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Charged in Australia Over Major Supply Chain Attacks

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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The Australian Federal Police charged Louis Michael Gaebler (23) and Ruben Ian Thomson (21) with a combined 14 offences for their roles in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 supply-chain compromise of Trivy, Checkmarx KICS, and LiteLLM. Both appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on August 27; private researchers traced one suspect through leaked passwords and a decade-old gaming profile. This arrest is significant as TeamPCP is described as responsible for the longest-running software supply-chain attack spree on record, directly threatening open-source security tooling used widely by defenders.

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