Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
2026-08-11T01:23:21Z•e547012950cfd4274451d47bcf63e620f68c1fec9d14a8955fb7587d936c6d2e
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity coverage highlights major cybercrime, botnet, residential proxy, ransomware, cloud data extortion, credential exposure, and software vulnerability developments. Notable events include the Snowflake-related extortion guilty plea involving theft of AT&T customer records, FBI disruption of the NetNut/Popa proxy ecosystem, Scattered Spider convictions, a large CISA GitHub credential leak, and Microsoft's disclosure of hundreds of patched flaws.
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