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Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Charged in Australia Over Major Supply Chain Attacks

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS and the AI gateway LiteLLM. Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, and Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on August 27, 2026, a day after the AFP and the Western Australia Police Force (WAPF) executed search warrants at properties in Cottesloe, Hamilton Hill, and Mandurah and seized electronic devices for forensic analysis. Police allege the two men were principal participants in the syndicate and received payments in cryptocurrency, the value of which is still under investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation…

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