Attackers spent five months silently stealing emails from a stock exchange executive’s Outlook account in a suspected espionage operation. A threat actor quietly sat inside a senior executive’s Outlook account at a major global stock exchange for roughly 150 days, from October 2025 to March 2026. Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black threat-hunting team investigated the…
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Alcasec, “Robin Hood of Spanish Hackers,” Jailed for 31 Months Over Data Theft
Alcasec, the “Robin Hood of Spanish Hackers,” is jailed for 31 months after admitting to stealing and selling Spanish citizens’ banking data.
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Alcasec, “Robin Hood of Spanish Hackers,” Jailed for 31 Months Over Data Theft
Alcasec, the “Robin Hood of Spanish Hackers,” is jailed for 31 months after admitting to stealing and selling Spanish citizens’ banking data.
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Romanian gets 5 years in prison for hacking Oregon govt network
A Romanian national was sentenced this week to 56 months in federal prison for breaking into an Oregon state government computer network and fr cyberattacks targeting dozens of other U.S. victims. […]
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Romanian Hacker Gets Nearly 5 Years in US Prison Over Network Intrusion
Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) got 4 years and 8 months in prison for selling access to an Oregon state network. Romanian hacker Catalin Dragomir (45) will spend 4 years and 8 months in a US prison after admitting he sold access to an Oregon state network. ” A Romanian national was sentenced to 56 months…
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Cisco Live 2026 Preview: AI, Security, and Partner Changes
Ahead of its annual North American conference in Las Vegas, Cisco has spent the last few months rolling out a steady stream of AI-focused announcements touching nearly every corner of its business, from networking and cybersecurity to certifications and channel programs. Recent earnings report shows record revenue due to AI infrastructure demand The company’s latest…
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With AI, typing’s out, talking’s in
Eight months ago, LinkedIn co-founder and former CEO Reid Hoffman confessed: “I am voicepilled.” He argued that talking instead of typing was the next great leap in computing. Being “voicepilled,” he said, was the epiphany that you can be vastly more productive and creative when not bogged down by the Victorian-era contraption known as the…
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Meet Fragnesia, the third Linux kernel vulnerability in a month
Linux admins reeling from handling last month’s CopyFail and last week’s Dirty Frag kernel vulnerabilities have a new headache to deal with: Fragnesia. “This is a significant vulnerability,” Robert Beggs, head of incident response firm DigitalDefence, told CSO. “It is bypassing traditional filesystem permissions that are present and enforced (for example, ‘file is owned by…
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Microsoft Fixes 17 Critical Flaws in May Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has patched 120 vulnerabilities in this month’s security update round
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May’s Patch Tuesday hauls out 132 CVEs
With advisories, this month’s count approaches 300 – though many are already in place Categories: Threat Research, X-ops Tags: Patch Tuesday, MICROSOFT PATCH TUESDAY
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Why we use CAPTCHAs, (Mon, May 11th)
A few months ago, I implemented Cloudflare’s Turnstile CAPTCHA on some pages. The reason for implementing these CAPTCHAs is obvious: Bots make up a large percentage of traffic and affect site performance. So I figured it was a good time to look back and see how effective these CAPTCHA are. The quick number: Out of…
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Two US Men Jailed for Helping North Korean Hackers Infiltrate US Firms
Matthew Knoot and Erick Prince have been jailed for 18 months each for helping North Korean hackers infiltrate US firms through remote laptop farms.
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Helping North Korean IT remote workers is becoming a fast track to prison
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for operating “laptop farms” that helped North Korean IT workers gain employment at nearly 70 American companies, generating more than $1.2 million for Pyongyang’s government. Although Matthew Issac Knoot of Nashville, Tennessee, and Erick Ntekereze Prince of New York were sentenced in separate cases, both…
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What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox
Over the past several months, Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox’s source code, identifying 271 security bugs that were fixed in Firefox 150, with additional fixes shipped in versions 149.0.2 and 150.0.1. Over 100 people contributed code to get those patches out. The bugs spanned a wide range of…
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American duo sentenced for hosting laptop farms for North Korean IT workers
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for running laptop farms that facilitated North Korea’s expansive remote IT workers scheme, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Matthew Issac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince both received and hosted laptops at their residences to dupe U.S. companies into thinking remote IT workers they hired were…
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$250 million cryptocurrency heist funded luxury fashion, nightclub parties, and private jets
20-year-old California resident Marlon Ferro, known online as “GothFerrari,” was sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in a cryptocurrency theft operation tied to more than $250 million in stolen digital assets. Federal prosecutors said Ferro participated in a criminal network active between late 2023 and early 2025. Members of the group, based…
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Americans sentenced for running ‘laptop farms’ for North Korea
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison each for operating so-called laptop farms that helped North Korean IT workers fraudulently obtain remote employment at nearly 70 American companies. […]
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Crypto gang member gets 6.5 years for role in $230 million heist
A 20-year-old California man was sentenced to 78 months in prison for serving as a home invader and money launderer in a criminal ring that stole over $250 million in cryptocurrency. […]
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Latvian national sentenced for ransomware attacks run by former Conti leaders
A federal judge sentenced a Latvian national to 102 months in prison for his involvement in a series of ransomware attacks for more than two years prior to his arrest in 2023, the Justice Department said Monday. Deniss Zolotarjovs, a resident of Moscow at the time, helped an organization led by former leaders of the…
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Money launderer linked to $230M crypto heist gets 70 months in prison
22-year-old Evan Tangeman of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for laundering funds stolen in a massive $230 million cryptocurrency heist. […]
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AI Phishing Is No. 1 With a Bullet for Cyberattackers
In the last six months, companies have seen a significant influx of AI-powered phishing, as cyberattackers progress from small campaigns to 1-to-1 personalized attacks.
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DraftKings hacker sentenced to prison, ordered to pay $1.4 Million
A DraftKings hacker got 30 months in prison for selling stolen credentials and must pay over $1.4 million in fines and restitution. Kamerin Stokes, 23, from Memphis (aka TheMFNPlug), received a 30-month prison sentence for his role in a 2022 credential stuffing attack against DraftKings. He continued selling stolen login data online even after pleading…
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Man gets 30 months for selling thousands of hacked DraftKings accounts
23-year-old Kamerin Stokes of Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling access to tens of thousands of hacked DraftKings accounts. […]
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Microsoft: April Windows Server 2025 update may fail to install
Microsoft is investigating an issue causing this month’s KB5082063 security update to fail to install on some Windows Server 2025 systems. […]
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2026., (Tue, Apr 14th)
This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday looks like a record one, but let’s look at it a bit closer to understand what is happening The update patches a total of 243 vulnerabilities. However, 78 of them are Chromium issues affecting Microsoft Edge. Patches for Edge were released earlier. This leaves 165 vulnerabilities that are not Edge-related.…
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CISOs Urged to Innovate with Talent Retention as Job Satisfaction Declines
A new IANS report claims just 34% of cybersecurity professionals plan to stay put in the next 12 months
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Malicious PDF reveals active Adobe Reader zero-day in the wild
Hackers used an Adobe Reader zero-day for months. Researcher Haifei Li found a malicious PDF and asks the community to help analyze it. Hackers used an Adobe Reader zero-day for months to deliver a sophisticated PDF exploit. Cybersecurity researcher Haifei Li, founder of Expmon, discovered the malicious file and warned the community. On March 26,…
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Adobe Acrobat Reader Zero Day Exploited in Active PDF Attacks
Attackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using malicious PDF files to silently steal data and potentially take over victim systems. Active since at least Dec. 2025, the campaign highlights how a seemingly routine document can serve as an effective entry point for system compromise. This exploit “allows the…
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Comp AI: The open-source way to get compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR
Getting a startup through a SOC 2 audit has long meant months of manual evidence collection, policy writing, and repeated back-and-forth with auditors. A growing number of compliance platforms have moved to automate parts of that process, and Comp AI is now doing it with an open-source codebase that organizations can inspect, modify, and self-host.…
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AI-Assisted Supply Chain Attack Targets GitHub
PRT-scan is the second in recent months where a threat actor appears to have leveraged AI for automated targeting of a widespread GitHub misconfiguration.
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North Korean Hackers Pose as Trading Firm to Steal $285M from Drift
North Korean hackers (UNC4736) posed as a trading firm for six months to infiltrate Drift Protocol, using social engineering tactics to steal $285M without suspicion.
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5-month-old F5 BIG-IP DoS bug becomes critical RCE exploited in the wild
A vulnerability misclassified five months ago as a denial-of-service issue in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) turned out to be a critical pre-authentication remote code execution flaw that is now under active exploitation. Hackers are using it to deploy a persistent malware program that runs with root privileges. The CVE-2025-53521 vulnerability was first disclosed…
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Global Magecart Campaign Puts Banks Under Pressure, Leveraging Redsys Payment Mimicry and Hijacking
A large-scale magecart operation remained active for over 24 months, leveraging an infrastructure of 100+ domains. While the targeted victims are e-commerce websites, the actual pressure falls on banks and payment systems. As ANY.RUN’s analysis shows, threat actors applied multi-step checkout hijacking, payment page mimicry, and WebSocket-based exfiltration of card data. This report provides both executive-level insights and technical analysis of the campaign. Key Takeaways The campaign demonstrates long-term persistence…
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Active Magecart Campaign Targets Spain, Steals Card Data via Hijacked eStores for Bank Fraud
A large-scale magecart operation remained active for over 24 months, leveraging an infrastructure of 100+ domains. While the targeted victims are e-commerce websites, the actual pressure falls on banks and payment systems. As ANY.RUN’s analysis shows, threat actors applied multi-step checkout hijacking, payment page mimicry, and WebSocket-based exfiltration of card data. This report provides both executive-level insights and technical analysis of the campaign. Key Takeaways The campaign demonstrates long-term persistence…
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Botnet operator behind $14 million in ransomware extortion payments gets 24 months behind bars
A Russian national has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after admitting he managed a botnet used to launch ransomware attacks against dozens of U.S. companies. The judge also imposed a $100,000 fine and ordered him to forfeit $1.6 million linked to the scheme. Court records show that from 2017 to 2021, Ilya Angelov,…
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Russian access broker sentenced to over 6 years in prison for ransomware schemes
A federal court in Indiana sentenced a Russian cybercriminal to 81 months in prison on charges related to his role as an initial access broker for ransomware groups. Aleksei Volkov, 26, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty in November 2025 to six federal charges stemming from his work with the Yanluowang ransomware group and other…
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Russian initial access broker helped ransomware gangs extort millions, sentenced to 81 months
A Russian citizen, Aleksei Volkov, was sentenced to 81 months in prison for helping ransomware groups carry out attacks causing over $9 million in actual losses and over $24 million in intended losses, after being arrested in Italy and extradited to the United States where he pleaded guilty. According to prosecutors, Volkov was an initial…
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81-month sentence for Russian hacker behind major ransomware campaigns
U.S. sentences Russian hacker Aleksei Volkov to 81 months in prison for aiding ransomware attacks, causing over $9M in damages. A U.S. court sentenced Aleksei Olegovich Volkov to 81 months in prison for supporting ransomware groups like Yanluowang. He helped carry out dozens of attacks, causing over $9M in losses. Arrested in Italy in 2024…
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U.S. Sentences Russian Hacker to 6.75 Years for Role in $9M Ransomware Damage
A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for his role in assisting major cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware crew, in conducting numerous attacks against U.S. companies and other organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Aleksei Olegovich Volkov facilitated dozens of ransomware…
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AI in the SOC: What Could Go Wrong?
Two cybersecurity leaders tested out AI in their respective SOCs for six months — and here’s what they learned.
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Nvidia Says It Is Restarting Production of AI Chips for Sale in China
CEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker’s supply chain is “fired up” after months of mixed signals from the Chinese market.
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AI Facial Recognition Error Jails Tennessee Grandmother for Months
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after a facial recognition system incorrectly identified her as a suspect in a bank fraud investigation in North Dakota, more than 1,200 miles from her home. The case is drawing renewed scrutiny around the risks of relying heavily on artificial intelligence in criminal investigations. “I’ve never…
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Microsoft Patches 83 CVEs in March Update
For a change, there’s little in this month’s Patch Tuesday that should cause panic, according to security experts.
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Only 24% Of organizations Test Identity Recovery Every Six Months
Only 24% of organizations test identity disaster recovery plans every 6 months, Quest Software said
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$5M Microsoft Activation Key Fraud Ends in Prison Term
A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in federal prison for running a years-long scheme that trafficked thousands of illicit Microsoft software activation keys. Heidi Richards, who operated Trinity Software Distribution, was also ordered to pay a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to charges tied to the resale of Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity…
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Florida woman imprisoned for massive Microsoft license fraud scheme
A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in prison for running a massive years-long scheme to traffic thousands of stolen Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. […]
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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: February 2026
This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Pompelmi: Open-source secure file upload scanning for Node.js Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert malware scanning and policy…
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Chinese hackers exploited zero-day Dell RecoverPoint flaw for 1.5 years
For the past 18 months, a Chinese cyberespionage group has been exploiting a prevously unknown vulnerability in Dell’s RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, a VM disaster recovery solution. The flaw, patched by Dell this week, allows unauthenticated attackers to gain command execution on the underlying OS as root. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, stems from hardcoded…
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CISA gives federal agencies 18 months to purge unsupported edge devices
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has given federal agencies 18 months to remove all end-of-support edge devices from their networks, escalating its response to what security researchers describe as a fundamental shift in nation-state attack tactics, where attackers exploit network infrastructure rather than endpoints. The binding operational directive, BOD 26-02, requires Federal Civilian Executive…