Police raid malware network tied to Russia's Evil Corp hacker group

Multiple security stories: an international law-enforcement operation disrupted the SocGholish malware/botnet infrastructure tied to Russia-linked cybercrime group Evil Corp. Separately, Mackay Sugar reported operational outages after a ransomware group (claimed by a group referenced as “Gentlemen”) said it carried out an attack. Human Rights Watch obtained export-license records showing Bulgarian firm Circles sold surveillance technology to repressive regimes (2018–2023). The UK NCSC warned that nation-state actors are prepositioning in critical infrastructure and that future kinetic attacks,