California city reports ransomware attack as LA transit agency finds ‘unauthorized activity’
2026-03-22T20:51:59Z•a31000ce4ebdc77afb8a0b48aaf574908cd81bf7bada8b2d01b77bf3d2fbae05
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What happened
A roundup of cybersecurity and policy news: Foster City disclosed a ransomware incident (possible exposure of public information) while LA Metro reported ‘unauthorized activity’; the FBI seized leak sites tied to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), which operated under names including “Handala”; the DOJ disrupted multiple botnet infrastructures (Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, Mossad) used for large-scale DDoS campaigns; Rep. Darin LaHood discussed the political effort needed to reauthorize Section 702; and a defendant pleaded guilty to an $8M scheme inflating streams of AI‑created
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