5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (602+ words) A Russian military court sentenced 26 members of the cybercrime group Flint24 to prison terms of up to 15 years, including the network’s alleged leader Alexei Stroganov — a notorious hacker also wanted by U.S. authorities for large-scale payment card fraud. The defendants…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (458+ words) Eight Greeks who were snooped on by Predator spyware sued the surveillance tech manufacturer Intellexa on Tuesday, as well as 13 individuals tied to the company. The victims are asking for about €7.6 million ($8.7 million) total in compensation, their lawyer Zacharias Kesses…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (373+ words) ransomware attacks. Ryan Goldberg, 40, and Kevin Martin, 36, each pleaded guilty in December to one count...Goldberg worked for incident response firm Sygnia and Martin was a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint. Prosecutors...on top of carrying out attacks with Goldberg and…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (467+ words) the same case pleaded — Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin — pleaded guilty to extortion charges earlier this...were given four-year prison sentences in May. Martin and Martino were ransomware negotiators for DigitalMint....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (425+ words) French authorities have arrested a suspected hacker believed to be behind dozens of data breaches targeting public institutions, sports federations and private organizations across the country, prosecutors said Wednesday. The suspect, a 20-year-old known online as HexDex, was detained Monday…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (795+ words) A phone belonging to a former member of the European Parliament was targeted and infected with Pegasus spyware multiple times during his tenure on the parliamentary committee probing the technology’s misuse, according to a report released Friday. Stelios Kouloglou’s phone…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (468+ words) A Russian-speaking threat actor used commercial generative artificial intelligence tools to help compromise more than 600 Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices across more than 55 countries earlier this year, researchers have found. The campaign, which ran from mid-January to mid-February, exploited weak security…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (370+ words) A North Korea-linked hacker group was behind several high-profile compromises of open-source software libraries used by developers worldwide, researchers have found. In a report released Wednesday, Amazon said the threat actor known as SapphireSleet was responsible for four separate compromises…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (555+ words) Hackers stole more than $26 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Truebit platform on Thursday, marking the first major crypto hack of 2026. The company said in a statement that it became aware of a security incident “involving one or more malicious…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (447+ words) A 19-year-old man with dual U.S. and Estonian citizenship was extradited from Finland to Chicago this week to face criminal charges of participating in hacks as part of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group. Peter Stokes made an initial appearance on Tuesday…...