More than 200 arrested in cyber raids aimed at Middle East scam networks
2026-05-19T02:51:55Z•6627f88de5bb89c039a36c753ad04fdfb12ea460265ba8d92bdab083fc48ecea
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber incidents and advisories reported: international law enforcement raided Middle East-based scam networks, arresting over 200 and identifying hundreds of compromised devices; Grafana confirmed theft of its codebase and refused to pay the ransom; OpenAI rolled out a ChatGPT feature to connect users’ financial accounts, prompting privacy warnings; THORChain suffered a ~$10.7M loss after one vault was compromised; and CISA ordered all federal agencies to urgently patch an exploited Cisco SD‑WAN vulnerability (Cisco has released a patch) that could allow unauthenticated,远程
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