Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
2026-08-09T01:23:22Z•35ba0927f6995ff9b0ba2e3908d9890700faa779ffef6b077522f1ea3b74d2fd
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KrebsOnSecurity reports on major cybercrime, botnet, residential proxy, ransomware, cloud data extortion, vulnerability management, credential exposure, and law-enforcement disruption developments. Key stories include the guilty plea of a Snowflake extortionist linked to the theft of more than 100 million AT&T customer records, FBI seizure of infrastructure associated with the Popa botnet and NetNut proxy service, Scattered Spider convictions, a rapidly growing ransomware group, and Microsoft's record patch release addressing at least 570 flaws.
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