Conti ransomware group member pleads guilty, faces up to 20 years in prison

Oleksii Lytvynenko, a 44-year-old Ukrainian national, admitted to joining the prolific cybercrime group in 2021. Officials said he engaged in cybercrime up until his arrest in Ireland in 2023.

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Conti ransomware group member pleads guilty, faces up to 20 years in prison

Oleksii Lytvynenko, a 44-year-old Ukrainian national, admitted to joining the prolific cybercrime group in 2021. Officials said he engaged in cybercrime up until his arrest in Ireland in 2023.

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ShinyHunters is actively extorting universities after exploiting an unpatched Oracle flaw

Oracle still hasn’t patched the vulnerability the group has been using in its attacks since late May.

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Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 206 vulnerabilities

Fears and warnings about a roaring flood of error-riddled software have materialized. And the disease is spreading.

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Cisco customers encounter another SD-WAN zero-day under attack

The defect marks the seventh actively exploited zero-day in Cisco SD-WANs this year, and the vendor has yet to release a patch.

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Nightmare Eclipse incident shows the researcher-vendor fights may never fully go away

When a researcher went public with Microsoft vulnerabilities, it laid bare a conflict that has never really been solved.

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European authorities crack down on illegal streaming networks

Officials said they dismantled nine organized crime groups and removed more than 27,000 URLs hosting live sports and other copyrighted media during a seven-month operation.

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Attackers are exploiting Palo Alto Networks defect that initially flew under the radar

The escalated threat posed by the defect showcases how quickly a seemingly mild vulnerability can turn into an urgent warning.

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Tennessee man linked to 764 accused of series of crimes against children dating back to 2022

Zachary Sweeney allegedly traveled to New York, Indiana, Missouri and Georgia to meet and harm numerous victims in person. The FBI began investigating him in 2023.

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Google security engineer accused of turning confidential search trends into $1.2M win on Polymarket

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed multiple trades on the prediction marketplace, abusing internal access to Google’s nonpublic data on the most searched people in 2025.

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