Eight years later, federal authorities re-up charges against alleged Iranian hackers at Mabna Institute

2026-08-18T20:51:35Z0b3b04086ad736100d39f5ae853db8f7e2b06ee629a83c5256c8f4f5c533ae89
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CyberScoop RSS collection covering recent cybersecurity developments, including Iranian state-linked hacking indictments, Medusa ransomware activity, BlackFile extortion campaigns, insider threats, AI-enabled and near-autonomous cyberattacks, proposed private-sector offensive hacking authorities, and the resilient Kimwolf botnet using disguised Chrome traffic and Ethereum-based command and control. The collection is broadly high-risk due to active ransomware, nation-state intrusion, botnet, and emerging AI-enabled attack reporting.

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