Lithuania investigates theft of 600,000 state registry records by foreign actor
2026-05-27T08:51:53Z•be9ee4ca674bd2422ebc5c86b2342af03328dc108d6dc57c059a7001d83d8098
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What happened
Multiple security and cyberintelligence developments: Lithuania is investigating unauthorized access and theft of over 600,000 records from the Centre of Registers (state property and legal-entity records). Dutch authorities arrested two men and seized >800 servers for allegedly providing infrastructure for pro-Russian cyber operations, sanctions evasion, and disinformation campaigns. Russia appointed Andrei Kozlov — linked to a Rostec cybersecurity center with alleged GRU ties — to a Security Council aide role, raising concerns about state-linked cyber coordination. CISA launched a nomination
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