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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity coverage highlights major cybersecurity developments, including extensive Microsoft vulnerability patches with active exploitation, criminal prosecutions tied to Snowflake data theft and Scattered Spider attacks, FBI disruption of the NetNut residential proxy platform and Popa botnet, exposed government credentials in a public GitHub repository, abuse of smart TVs and streaming devices for proxying and ad fraud, and emerging privacy-tracking and offensive cybersecurity concerns.
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