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7 stories taggedinsider-threat.
Ransomware Negotiator Turned Attacker Gets Nearly Six Years for BlackCat Extortion Scheme
Angelo Martino, a former DigitalMint employee, was paid to help victims recover from ransomware. Instead he ran the attacks himself, leaking insurance details to squeeze bigger payouts.
OpenMandriva Linux Says Angry Contributor Wiped Years of Work
A developer with admin keys deleted repositories and pushed a package that could have broken user systems, after a dispute over the project's direction.
Seven Arrested Over Alleged Council Fraud in Shepparton as Police Probe Four-Year Scheme
Greater Shepparton City Council referred its own employees to police after internal checks flagged suspicious financial activity stretching back to 2022.
Chris Inglis on the Snowden Era: What NSA Got Wrong, and What CISOs Should Still Be Asking
The former NSA Deputy Director reflects on institutional failures, insider threat detection, and why 'enculturation' may matter more than access controls.
Insider Threat, Low Sophistication: Ex-IT Staffer Gets 21 Months for Iowa School District Intrusions
No APT, no zero-day — just a disgruntled former admin with credentials that should have been revoked. The case is a textbook reminder that the highest-impact intrusions often start at HR offboarding.
Five Eyes Warns: Chinese Intelligence Officers Posing as Recruiters to Harvest Government Secrets
A joint advisory flags a persistent social engineering campaign targeting personnel with access to classified material — fake job offers, real espionage.
Russia's Tech Embargo Run-Around: Shell Companies, Middlemen, and Embedded Spies
Western sanctions were supposed to starve Moscow's military-industrial base of critical components. Instead, Russian intelligence built a procurement machine to go get them anyway.