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FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved...
Japan confirms arrest of Russian Qilin operative, extradition to Germany
Image: Getty Images via Unsplash Japan confirms arrest of Russian Qilin operative, extradition to Germany Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed on Thursday the arrest and extradition of a Russian national accused of...
What We Missed: FBI Strikes Back at ShinyHunters
After ShinyHunters claimed a breach against the FBI and defaced its website, a suspected member of the cybercrime gang was detained in Jordan. In this episode of "What We Missed," Dark Reading's Rob Wright and Alex...
AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom
Surging demand for native-AI cybersecurity services (and the security capabilities needed to tame agentic AI) has put 2026 on the path to become another record-breaking year for cybersecurity-startup acquisitions. While...
ASOS Breach Reveals the Risks in Customer-Facing SaaS
The hackers who breached ASOS this week unearthed a serious security gap around customer-facing marketing and notifications platforms. On Oct. 6, a threat actor identifying itself as "Xuanye Group" announced that it had...
OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks
OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,” defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for...
Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto
Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners. AhsayCBS is typically used by...
Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. The technique, dubbed "Adception" by security...
OpenAI says it disrupted Russian and Iranian influence ops that used ChatGPT
Image: Insaanu Studio via Unsplash OpenAI says it disrupted Russian and Iranian influence ops that used ChatGPT Russian and Iranian influence campaigns used ChatGPT to spread propaganda through social media, news...
Belarusian hacktivists admit to 2023 breach of Russian state healthcare network
Image: Artem Korsakov via Pexels Belarusian hacktivists admit to 2023 breach of Russian state healthcare network Belarusian activist hackers have claimed responsibility for a years-old breach of Moscow's healthcare...
FBI touts another ShinyHunters arrest in response to data breach
Image: fbi.gov FBI touts another ShinyHunters arrest in response to data breach The FBI arrested another person allegedly connected to the ShinyHunters cybercriminal organization this week as the bureau seeks to detain...
Leader of vast money mule operation that laundered cybercriminal proceeds pleads guilty
Image: Pixabay via Pexels Leader of vast money mule operation that laundered cybercriminal proceeds pleads guilty The man behind an international organization that laundered money for cybercriminals with the help of...