FBI warns extortion hackers are visiting US law firms to steal data
2026-05-27T14:51:54Z•044052c5af7202f7798eb22f4980d5163c2e5cb4acfb560b7ceb9760b972a191
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What happened
Multiple cyber incidents and law-enforcement actions were reported: the FBI issued a public advisory warning an extortion group is using social‑engineering to gain remote access to US law firms and exfiltrate client/corporate data; Dutch police arrested a suspect in a cyber breach of AFC Ajax and seized digital storage; researchers (Gambit Security) attribute a hack of the Los Angeles transit system to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS); Lithuania is investigating theft of some 600,000 state registry records after unauthorized access; and Dutch authorities arrested two men and seized over
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