Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
2026-08-06T19:23:21Z•dd1a8c5e8bfc14ab62b7b08f56561f0bc23ebc0f858fd8b3697ec8b39a595018
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What happened
A KrebsOnSecurity RSS collection covering major cybersecurity developments, including the Snowflake extortion campaign and theft of AT&T customer records, botnets and residential proxy abuse through consumer streaming devices, a record Microsoft Patch Tuesday, exposed CISA credentials in GitHub, offensive zero-day acquisition, FBI disruption of the NetNut/Popa infrastructure, Scattered Spider prosecutions, and the emergence of The Gentlemen ransomware group.
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