Leading members of Scattered Spider sentenced in UK to 66 months in jail

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers led and directed many attacks attributed to the hacker subset of The Com. U.S. authorities previously accused Jubair of participating in at least 120 attacks.

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Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime

Officials accused three Russian nationals, Media Land and ML.Cloud of supporting cyberattacks spanning 21 U.S. states and other countries, resulting in losses surpassing $62 million.

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Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime

Officials accused three Russian nationals, Media Land and ML.Cloud of supporting cyberattacks spanning 21 U.S. states and other countries, resulting in losses surpassing $62 million.

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SonicWall customers under threat as attackers exploit 2 zero-days

Researchers said the vulnerabilities, which attackers are chaining together, were first exploited three weeks before the vendor disclosed and patched the defects.

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Microsoft discloses ‘the mother of all’ vulnerability loads, tripling June’s previous record

The company forewarned customers and defenders that a flood of defects would be uncovered by AI. It delivered with a striking exponential increase.

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Officials once again warn defenders that Russian hackers are targeting network devices

State-sponsored attackers are targeting critical infrastructure networks in defense, communications, energy, finance, government and health care.

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Armenian national pleads guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks

Karen Vardanyan faces up to 15 years in federal prison and agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution.

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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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