FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm
2026-10-10T07:23:21Z•3a41feb4cc87e582b0b81e13b9a25bc270d882bc61cfea88c32a924c3f28f878
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KrebsOnSecurity coverage highlights major cybercrime and vulnerability developments, including ShinyHunters data theft and extortion activity, arrests of alleged accomplices, large-scale telecommunications metadata theft, a dark-web service selling more than 153 million driver-license scans, software supply-chain attacks attributed to TeamPCP, and Microsoft’s disclosure of unusually large batches of security vulnerabilities, including actively exploited flaws.
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