Phobos Ransomware admin faces up to 20 years after guilty plea

2026-03-06T02:51:48Zf3b564a9f22336561a69ced80ccd0c1b4cefd6106672a441db3a48ec797067b9
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Feed highlights multiple high-impact events: a Phobos ransomware administrator (Evgenii Ptitsyn) pleaded guilty in the U.S.; researchers disclosed a Russian phishing campaign delivering new BadPaw and MeowMeow malware against Ukrainian targets; and law enforcement (FBI/Europol) seized the LeakBase cybercrime forum in “Operation Leak.” Google TAG revealed the Coruna iOS exploit kit chaining 23 exploits against iOS 13–17.2.1. Cisco patched two maximum-severity Secure FMC flaws that could yield root access, while CISA added multiple vendor flaws (including Qualcomm and Broadcom/VMware Aria Ops)to

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