Former DigitalMint ransomware negotiator who duped clients sentenced to 70 months in jail

Angelo Martino exploited his insider position and fed confidential information to ransomware co-conspirators to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S.-based victims.

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Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries

The anti-fraud crackdown, dubbed Operation First Light, identified more than 142,000 victims of various social-engineering scams.

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764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail

Alexis Chavez coerced multiple girls to commit self harm and produce child sexual abuse material for notoriety in a sprawling violent extremist collective affiliated with the Com.

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Spain arrests suspected hacker linked to Russian hacktivist campaign

Authorities didn’t name the man or file formal charges, but accuse him of participating in attacks linked to Cyber Army of Russia Reborn and NoName.

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Suspected Chinese espionage group used a Roundcube exploit chain to burrow into universities

Proofpoint researchers said attackers targeted physics and engineering departments, and warn that the campaign is likely ongoing.

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Sysdig clocks first documented case of agentic ransomware

The AI agent didn’t accomplish every step in the late June 2026 attack, but it allowed the threat actor to significantly reduce complexity, speed up the tempo and gain operational advantages.

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Alleged longstanding member of Scattered Spider extradited to US

Peter Stokes boasted on social media about the luxurious globetrotting life he enjoyed while he was still a child.

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Researchers spot exploitation of another critical Oracle defect

The defect impacts a popular collection of business applications that attackers have hit before in widespread attack sprees.

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Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet

Cybersecurity firms, researchers and officials took down 106 servers and remediated nearly 15,000 sites that were infected with the malware.

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How software development’s speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade

The threat group’s remarkable success targeting open-source software was inevitable and fueled by the industry’s decision to prioritize code shipping over security.

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