Italy disrupts CINEMAGOAL piracy app that stole streaming auth codes

2026-05-23T19:23:26Z75e0f28974b61e8128b19467319e22330dea33cfcea16539244950e7e47004f0
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What happened

Multiple high-impact security and law-enforcement developments: Italian authorities dismantled the CINEMAGOAL piracy ecosystem that stole streaming authentication codes; Dutch FIOD seized ~800 servers and arrested two operators of a hosting service used to enable cyberattacks and disinformation; U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested the alleged KimWolf DDoS botnet operator; police seized the First VPN service tied to ransomware/data-theft; two former execs pled guilty for enabling tech-support scams. On the vulnerability front, Trend Micro disclosed an actively exploited Apex One zero‑day, a

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2026-05-23T19:23:26Z
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