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Ransomware

A 16-Year-Old Is Suspected of Running KillSec, One of Ransomware's Busiest Criminal Groups

European police arrested three people and seized servers after a year-long investigation into roughly 1,000 cyberattacks. The alleged ringleader is a Romanian teenager.

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Threat Intelligence

ShinyHunters Claims FBI Hack Exploiting Oracle Flaw

The cybercrime group says it breached FBI systems using a critical Oracle software vulnerability. The FBI is investigating the claim.

3 min read
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AI Security

A Former Internet Godfather Explains How AI Gives Criminals a Head Start

Brett Johnson built some of the first organised online crime networks. Now he's showing security conferences exactly how fast AI lets attackers work, and why defenders are still catching up.

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Threat Intelligence

Two Nigerian men extradited to US over sextortion scams linked to teen suicides

Adebola Festus Adekunle and Mudasiru Afeez Olawale face life sentences after a joint operation tied them to blackmail schemes that ended in the deaths of two American minors.

3 min read
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Policy & Regulation

Malware Rode Into a Texas Police Server Inside Body Camera Footage

A hidden virus hitched a ride on police body-cam video and spread through the justice chain. The real problem is a funding gap that leaves front-line officers without the cyber basics they need.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Turned Into a Criminal Toolkit

A sprawling operation dubbed StopAndProtect is quietly using compromised WordPress sites as a delivery network for malware, stolen files and screenshots.

3 min read
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Breaches

ShinyHunters Claims 1.6 Million Records Stolen from RingCentral

The extortion group published 280 gigabytes of alleged RingCentral data after the company refused to pay. Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses are now circulating freely.

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Policy & Regulation

White House Enlists Security Firms to Combat International Cybercrime

The U.S. government plans to partner with security companies to target foreign cybercrime gangs, with contracts potentially requiring a $1 million bond forfeited for non-compliance.

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Threat Intelligence

UK member of 'The Com' jailed for two years after blackmailing 117 girls online

Justin Swaddle, 20, used Snapchat and Discord to coerce teenage girls into self-harm and abuse images, purely to boost his standing in a sprawling online cybercrime collective.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

The hacking crew behind a big supply-chain attack has been busy since 2020

New research links TeamPCP, the group behind a recent software supply-chain campaign, to years of quiet break-ins on exposed servers.

3 min read
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Ransomware

Ransom Cartel Boss Gets 16 Years After $6.7M Extortion Spree

Belarusian national Maksim Silnikau built and ran the ransomware crew from 2021 to 2023, hitting at least 18 companies before Spanish police caught him and Poland handed him over.

4 min read
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Ransomware

How the FBI Took Down LockBit by Destroying the One Thing Criminals Can't Easily Replace: Trust

Operation Cronos didn't just seize servers. It turned LockBit's own website against its partners, shattered the group's reputation, and cut US ransom payments by 79 percent in the second half of 2024.

4 min read
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Ransomware

What is ransomware-as-a-service? A plain-English guide

Ransomware-as-a-service lets criminals rent attack tools from developers, the same way businesses subscribe to software, making large-scale extortion attacks available to almost anyone.

5 min read
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Ransomware

What is ransomware and how does an attack actually unfold?

Ransomware locks your files or systems until you pay criminals to restore access. Here is exactly how that happens, step by step.

5 min read
A hacker's workstation setup with multiple monitors displaying AI chatbot interfaces with safety guardrails being bypassed, custom exploitation scripts being de
AI Security

A Criminal Sold AI-Powered Hacking as a Service. Here Is How He Built It.

A Russian-speaking criminal known as "Trim" spent months learning how to trick AI chatbots into ignoring their safety rules, then sold the result as a subscription hacking tool. Security researchers say others are already copying the blueprint.

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