Investigation of banking hack leads to arrests in Europe, Brazil

The document aggregates five cybersecurity and technology news items: arrests linked to a banking hack in Europe and Brazil; an unauthorized-access incident affecting France’s tax authority with a claimed 600,000 victims; privacy-control changes by Flock Safety; a stealthier Mirai botnet variant using encrypted command-and-control and credential sniffing; and Brazil’s order for Discord to suspend livestreaming following a child-safety incident. The most directly actionable cyber threat is the Mirai variant, while the banking hack and French tax-authority breach represent significant criminal-—