Due to their alleged involvement in TeamPCP, the cybercrime gang responsible for the March 2026 hack of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS as well as the AI gateway LiteLLM, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two males from Western Australia with a total of fourteen offenses.
On August 27, 2026, Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, and Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, made an appearance in Perth Magistrates Court. The day before, the AFP and the Western Australia Police Force (WAPF) had executed search warrants at properties in Cottesloe, Hamilton Hill, and Mandurah, seizing electronic devices for forensic examination.
According to police, the two men were key members of the syndicate and were paid in cryptocurrencies, the worth of which is still being looked into.
Organizations affected by the campaign should handle credentials and exfiltrated data as a persistent risk, according to a July 2 advisory from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), since affiliated threat actors are likely to use them as weapons long after the initial penetration. It recommended publishing tokens, cloud credentials that were accessible during the exposure windows read more about Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Charged in Australia Over Major Supply Chain Attacks
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