Syrian regime hacker sentenced to 42 months in US prison
Ahmad Umar Agha, also known as Th3Pr0, was sentenced after a conspiracy that ran from August 2011 until January 2024.
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42 articles · newest firstUS antitrust regulators scrutinize Nvidia's Hugging Face deal
Sources say Justice Department officials are asking whether the $12.93 billion purchase could give Nvidia control of a key AI hub.
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Nefilim and Hive affiliate sentenced to 70 months in US
Ukrainian Artem Stryzhak was arrested in Spain in June 2024, extradited in April 2025, and allegedly hit about seven Hive victims.
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Saudi OpenAI employee charged with bugging a San Francisco conference room
Prosecutors say he plugged a $13.90 SEEED board into a TV USB port, hid it in toilet paper, and queried ChatGPT on how to record.
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Weekly recap: BeyondTrust zero-day, ConnectWise access, Ledger thefts
Armory Castle used CVE-2026-102764 for file operations, then planted SAWFLY and BARECLAW on a few victims.
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FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested
FBI raided Texas laptop farms, arrested two Americans, and charged people tied to DPRK IT-worker schemes.
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FBI raids 40+ laptop farms helping North Korea pocket US tech salaries
FBI arrested two Americans and raided 40-plus laptop farms aiding North Korean IT-worker salary fraud.
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Leading Tech Companies Join Global Law Enforcement in Major Crackdown on West African Scam Networks
Tech firms and law enforcement disrupted West African scam networks, removing 3.7 million accounts and aiding 28 arrests.
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 599 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Security Affairs round 599 collects weekly headlines on breaches, arrests, ransomware, and exploited flaws.
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FBI disrupts Flax Typhoon hacking tools used in global cyberattacks
FBI seized seven domains powering Flax Typhoon's Microscan and FishHub tools, used against U.S. and Taiwanese critical infrastructure and universities.
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US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
FBI seized seven Flax Typhoon-linked domains as seven governments warned of PRC data theft.
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US posts $10 million reward for accused Chinese ‘Hafnium’ hacker
The US offers $10 million for Zhang Yu, accused of leading Hafnium intrusions for China.
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Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
A fraudster was jailed 18 months and ordered to forfeit $8.1 million from AI streaming fraud.
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Iranian hacker accused of draining 31TB from university inboxes extradited to the US
Montenegro approved extraditing Amir Barati over an alleged IRGC-linked theft of 31TB from universities.
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US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
The US arrested Earthmade CEO Greg Lui for allegedly smuggling over $300 million in Nvidia AI chips to China.
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Risky Bulletin: Authorities dismantle KillSec group, arrest members across Europe
European police dismantled the KillSec ransomware gang, arresting three suspects including a 16-year-old administrator.
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Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network
US Treasury sanctioned alleged Ploutus ATM-malware developer Anibal Canelon Aguirre and associates tied to Tren de Aragua.
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US sanctions 10 over ATM malware scheme tied to Tren de Aragua
OFAC sanctioned 10 people over a Ploutus ATM-jackpotting scheme that US officials link to Tren de Aragua.
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Former US Air Force members behind million-dollar BEC scheme head to prison
Two former US Air Force members received a combined 189 months for a million-dollar BEC and phishing scheme.
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Former US soldier gets nearly six-year sentence for hacking, extorting telecoms
Ex-soldier Cameron Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months for hacking and extorting US telecoms.
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Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
Former US soldier Cameron Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months for hacking telecom firms and seeking $1 million.
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Meta Takes Action on 3.7 Million Accounts, Pages and Content In Partnership With Singapore Police Force
Meta and Singapore police disrupted millions of scam accounts, pages, and prebuilt shell pages.
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NightmareStresser DDoS Service Disrupted in International Operation
FBI seized NightmareStresser DDoS-for-hire domains in Operation PowerOFF; the booter had nearly 1 million users and launched hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022.
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Handala Hack Uses CRUDEEXCLUDE to Disable Defender Protections and Deploy HEAVYGRAM
Group-IB links new HEAVYGRAM and CRUDEEXCLUDE malware to Iran-aligned Handala Hack (MOIS/Void Manticore), which spies on Iranian dissidents using Defender exclusions and Telegram C2.
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Authorities seize popular, long-running DDoS-for-hire service domains
FBI and RCMP seized NightmareStresser DDoS-for-hire domains under Operation PowerOFF; the service enabled hundreds of thousands of attacks since at least 2022.
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FBI takes down one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services
FBI seized NightmareStresser domains, one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services, used in hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022.
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NightmareStresser Goes Offline in Global DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown
The DOJ seized NightmareStresser domains, a DDoS-for-hire service behind hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF.
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US takes down NightmareStresser DDoS-for-hire platform
FBI seized NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire platform with 566,000 users and servers capable of 200 Gbps attacks, under Operation PowerOFF.
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Ukrainian National Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Wire Fraud Conspiracy in Connection with Conti Ransomware
Ukrainian national Oleksii Lytvynenko sentenced to four years for wire fraud conspiracy deploying Conti ransomware that infected over 1,000 computers.
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Ukrainian hacker gets four years in US prison over Conti ransomware attacks
Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in the US for his role in Conti ransomware attacks against 1,000+ victims.
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Conti ransomware gang member sentenced to 4 years in prison
US court sentences Ukrainian Conti ransomware member Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years; the gang extorted over $150M from 1,000+ victims.
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Conti ransomware crew member sentenced to four years in prison
Ukrainian national Oleksii Lytvynenko sentenced to four years in the US for his role in Conti ransomware attacks on at least 12 companies.
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US disrupts Xinbi Guarantee marketplace fueling the cyber scam economy
US Treasury sanctions and DOJ seizures take down Xinbi Guarantee, a Telegram marketplace that processed $24B+ for cyber scams, freezing $52.8M.
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Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire
Bipartisan US lawmakers asked Treasury to sanction three India-based hack-for-hire firms accused of long-running espionage against Americans.
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U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto
US DOJ and Treasury disrupt Xinbi Guarantee Telegram scam marketplace, sanctioning it and freezing $52.8M in USDT across 52 wallets.
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Srsly Risky Biz: China's Private Sector Botnets Are Worth Disrupting
DoJ seized domains of Chinese espionage botnet platforms QScan and QTRouter, run by private firm QTFY for MSS and PLA targeting.
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Russian man indicted for spreading malware to 80,000 freelancers
US prosecutors indicted a Russian national for infecting roughly 80,000 freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware via fake freelance-platform accounts.
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Dogged Russia-based botnet dismantled after 23-year run
Law enforcement, CrowdStrike and Shadowserver dismantled the 23-year-old Sality P2P botnet that infected more than 11 million devices.
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Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands
US DoJ charged extradited Russian Searzhudin Aktulaev for a 2016-2017 Excel macro campaign infecting ~80,000 freelance platform users with TVRAT and DarkVNC.
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Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run
Law enforcement, CrowdStrike, and Shadowserver sinkholed the 23-year-old Sality P2P botnet, cutting 15,000+ infected machines from its operator.
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- FBIorganization · 24
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- Flax Typhoonthreat actor · 4
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- Microsoftvendor · 4
- Contithreat actor · 4
- Royal Canadian Mounted Policeorganization · 3
- Microsoftorganization · 3
- CrowdStrikevendor · 3
- CrowdStrikeorganization · 3
- Salitymalware · 2
- Facebookproduct · 2
- Europolorganization · 2
- DarkVNCmalware · 2
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