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Ukrainian ransomware hacker sentenced, $11 million reward offered for co-conspirator

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Ukrainian ransomware hacker sentenced, $11 million reward offered for co-conspirator 2026-10-28 at 14:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec A Ukrainian national who participated in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, law firms, and other businesses was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison. Artem Stryzhak, 36, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to two counts of […]

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Hackers bury inboxes in spam then show up on Microsoft Teams posing as IT support

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Hackers bury inboxes in spam then show up on Microsoft Teams posing as IT support 2026-10-27 at 16:16 By Sinisa Markovic Threat actors are flooding employees’ inboxes with spam and then contacting them on Microsoft Teams as IT support, offering to fix the problem they created, Arctic Wolf has found. The security company documented more […]

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Private repos still leak secrets to Gheist, a stolen GitHub token campaign

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Private repos still leak secrets to Gheist, a stolen GitHub token campaign 2026-10-27 at 12:58 By Mirko Zorz Wiz Research has recovered more than 13,500 planted branches from 850+ compromised GitHub accounts, the work of a campaign it calls Gheist, after the user agent the tool sends with its GitHub API requests. The tool takes […]

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Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank Accounts

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Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank Accounts 2026-10-26 at 13:47 By Ionut Arghire The individuals called victims and persuaded them to install an app and scan their credit cards to loot their bank accounts. The post Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From […]

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Microsoft 365 accounts compromised at 79 organizations, no passwords needed

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Microsoft 365 accounts compromised at 79 organizations, no passwords needed 2026-10-23 at 14:45 By Sinisa Markovic An attacker who spent ten weeks replaying stolen Microsoft 365 sign-in sessions broke into email accounts at 79 organizations and used hidden inbox rules to keep victims from seeing parts of their own mail, according to Huntress. The researchers […]

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Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense

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Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense 2026-10-23 at 11:21 By Sinisa Markovic An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model’s owner pays for the computing power. Symantec captured the agent’s instruction […]

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Africa cybercrime crackdown nets 1,462 arrests and over $105 million

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Africa cybercrime crackdown nets 1,462 arrests and over $105 million 2026-10-22 at 11:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec Police in 21 countries arrested 1,462 suspects and took down 10,909 malicious networks in Operation Serengeti III, an INTERPOL-coordinated cybercrime sweep across Africa that ran from June 29 to August 31, 2026. Investigators recovered more than $105 million in […]

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Ahold Delhaize Restoring Services Disrupted by Cyberattack

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Ahold Delhaize Restoring Services Disrupted by Cyberattack 2026-10-20 at 16:02 By Ionut Arghire The company has restored many websites and apps in Europe and expects e-commerce brands in the US to be restored in days. The post Ahold Delhaize Restoring Services Disrupted by Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities

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Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities 2026-10-16 at 15:45 By Sinisa Markovic Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement staff answer every week. Cadence Riddle, a cybersecurity researcher at Fortra, tracked a 12-fold increase […]

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Stolen AI API keys are paying for hackers’ autonomous scans

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Stolen AI API keys are paying for hackers’ autonomous scans 2026-10-16 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec A seller on a restricted criminal forum is marketing an autonomous hacking tool that runs on stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys, so the key’s owner pays for the scans. Bitsight’s threat intelligence team tracked the shift across […]

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KGB RAT trojan packs webcam spying, password theft and a “fun” menu to terrorize victims

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KGB RAT trojan packs webcam spying, password theft and a “fun” menu to terrorize victims 2026-10-15 at 16:51 By Sinisa Markovic A Windows trojan advertised on hacking forums for as little as $150 a month promises buyers access to a victim’s webcam, microphone, keystrokes and saved passwords, and comes with a set of features made […]

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Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind more than a billion scam messages

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Microsoft disrupts phishing network behind more than a billion scam messages 2026-10-15 at 13:10 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft uncovered a criminal marketplace supplying tools and accounts used in phishing scams worldwide. Attackers used these resources to target organizations in healthcare, financial services, wholesale distribution, and IT across Japan, the United States, Australia, and India. Phishing […]

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Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages

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Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages 2026-10-14 at 16:00 By Eduard Kovacs Backed by a federal court order, Microsoft and Health-ISAC seized domains powering YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. The post Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms

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US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms 2026-10-14 at 13:55 By Ionut Arghire Investigators stormed 40 locations in Texas and seized 187 laptops used by North Korean IT workers to hide their location. The post US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms appeared first on […]

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Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner joins growing list of fashion retailers targeted by hackers

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Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner joins growing list of fashion retailers targeted by hackers 2026-10-14 at 13:48 By Sinisa Markovic People who have shopped with Phase Eight, Hobbs or Whistles will have to wait to find out whether their personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the company behind the three UK fashion […]

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Cyberattack Prompts Ahold Delhaize to Disconnect Systems

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Cyberattack Prompts Ahold Delhaize to Disconnect Systems 2026-10-13 at 12:37 By Ionut Arghire The company says it took some of its systems offline to contain a security issue within its network. The post Cyberattack Prompts Ahold Delhaize to Disconnect Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year

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Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year 2026-10-12 at 16:21 By Eduard Kovacs The outage hit the main Ubuntu and Canonical websites, including the Ubuntu blog and developer portal. The post Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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Mastermind of 15,000-Mule Cybercrime Laundering Network Pleads Guilty in US

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Mastermind of 15,000-Mule Cybercrime Laundering Network Pleads Guilty in US 2026-10-12 at 14:24 By Ionut Arghire Oleg Korniev was a leader of YMCO, a sophisticated network of money mules that helped hackers move funds outside the US. The post Mastermind of 15,000-Mule Cybercrime Laundering Network Pleads Guilty in US appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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Ransomware Response Expert Arrested in ShinyHunters FBI Hack Probe

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Ransomware Response Expert Arrested in ShinyHunters FBI Hack Probe 2026-10-12 at 13:32 By Eduard Kovacs The suspect is believed to be Edward Dubrovsky, a Canadian cybersecurity executive who was visiting the United States for a conference. The post Ransomware Response Expert Arrested in ShinyHunters FBI Hack Probe appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an […]

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Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison

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Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison 2026-10-10 at 14:00 By Kevin Townsend The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers. The post Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek. […]

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