FBI takes down massive China-based cybercrime network that caused $1.9B in losses

2026-06-13T02:51:41Zf06d485c454542551b6135704c35a7be992b44b96ada11bce767900dc0fa6898
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What happened

A batch of CyberScoop stories covering multiple high-impact cyber events: the FBI dismantled “Outsider,” a China-based phishing infrastructure blamed for roughly $1.9B in victim losses; international law enforcement shut down a large deepfake/non-consensual porn site; ShinyHunters is actively exploiting an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero‑day to extort universities; a Conti affiliate pleaded guilty and faces prison; a Russian national was charged in the Kremlin-linked Void Blizzard espionage campaign; OpenAI attributes a likely Chinese influence operation attempting to use ChatGPT to steer a U

Why it matters

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cyberscoop
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f06d485c454542551b6135704c35a7be992b44b96ada11bce767900dc0fa6898
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2026-06-13T02:51:41Z
AI-assisted enrichment
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