Philippines-based American pleads guilty to running expansive fraud scheme targeting US servicemembers

2026-10-21T02:51:35Z•b38b8fdb8d31572fe26b0fbb131e2d53dd55f3af144a566b8c47fd6cb6e732cb
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What happened

CyberScoop RSS digest covering fraud prosecutions, state-sponsored espionage, supply-chain compromise, spyware targeting political critics, federal cybersecurity policy, and AI security guidance. Notable threats include Russian GRU/APT28 activity against NATO and aerospace targets, a ConnectWise-related API-secret supply-chain attack affecting Microsoft 365 tenants, exploitation of a BeyondTrust zero-day by Chinese espionage group Armory Castle/UNC5221, and Pegasus spyware targeting Serbian critics.

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