FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm
2026-10-13T01:23:22Z•137142b0bb7acd9b45f06ab9805b8247e468f52d69012442fcf5163320f7b950
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KrebsOnSecurity reports on major cybercrime investigations and arrests involving ShinyHunters and TeamPCP, large-scale data theft and extortion, exposed driver-license data, telecommunications metadata theft, data-broker privacy litigation, and large Microsoft vulnerability patch releases. The feed includes claims of sensitive FBI data theft, supply-chain attacks through malicious open-source software, and hundreds of Microsoft security fixes, including actively exploited vulnerabilities, but provides insufficient detail to map most items to specific CVEs.
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