U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
2026-09-27T19:23:22Z•4e13e8f1b28dea12a59e6c6a8abc0d5e6a471c12011a41492e8bb40f9d85a431
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity coverage highlights major cybercrime, data theft, privacy, supply-chain, and vulnerability-management developments. Notable events include theft and extortion involving AT&T and Verizon customer call/text metadata, the sale of more than 153 million driver’s-license scans, TeamPCP arrests over malicious open-source software and supply-chain attacks, Snowflake-related extortion, large Microsoft security updates including actively exploited flaws, and abuse of smart-TV applications as residential proxies and ad-fraud infrastructure.
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