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The attack was described as a “clear example of an organisation linked to the Russian state using ‘proxies’ — in this case British men — to carry out very serious criminal activity in this country on their behalf."

The Iran-linked ransomware-as-a-service group Pay2Key.I2P reportedly told affiliates that they can keep a larger cut of extortion payments if they attack entities within Iran's adversaries.

Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said the campaign has already affected over 100 victims across several dozen Russian organizations, but did not disclose the specific targets.

Police in Brazil arrested an employee of C&M Software, who allegedly told them he had sold his login credentials to the hackers behind a massive theft via the PIX instant payment system.

An investigation revealed that hackers had access to the utility's critical systems, allowing them to steal sensitive information like driver's license numbers, Canadian Social Insurance information and bank account details.

Organizations on multiple continents — particularly in the health and tech sectors — have been breached by a ransomware group calling itself Bert, according to researchers at Trend Micro.

The developers behind a custom firmware used to convert consumer drones for military use in Ukraine have reported a cyberattack disrupting the system that distributes the software.

Ingram Micro published a statement on Saturday saying it discovered “ransomware on certain of its internal systems,” which it immediately took offline.

The outages in Russia's second largest city are the latest in a series of shutdowns that may be linked to the Kremlin’s efforts to protect critical infrastructure from Ukrainian drone attacks.

Recorded Future News spoke to Estonia's cyber ambassador-at-large on the sidelines of the Tallinn Cyber Diplomacy Summer School about the country's efforts to secure its digital services.

Carol Steele, the county’s administrator, said they hired cybersecurity experts to help with the recovery and notified the FBI’s Cyber Crimes Division as well as the Cyber Fusion Center of the Virginia State Police.

Groups calling themselves IT Army of Russia and TwoNet are newly active on Telegram, coordinating operations and seeking new members, researchers at Intel 471 said.

Interpol said it analyzed five years of data about the illicit industry, which relies on human trafficking to staff up centers with people who are forced to conduct investment fraud, romance scams and other schemes.

Microsoft said it has spent years monitoring North Korea’s campaign to get its citizens hired in IT roles at U.S. companies and recently saw changes in how the campaign operates.

Russian authorities said the man used malware to attack Russian information systems in 2022, blocking access to websites of several local companies and damaging critical infrastructure.

“After careful consideration and in light of recent developments, we have decided to close the Hunters International project,” the prolific cybercrime gang wrote on its darknet site.

Google's data transfers from idle Android phones on cellular networks essentially amounted to stealing, lawyers alleged in a class-action case where a jury awarded $314 million to plaintiffs. Google said it will appeal.

The campaign uses thousands of phishing websites that mimic the design and product listings of retailers like Apple, Nordstrom and Hermes to trick people into entering their credit card information.

Surmodics, a Minnesota-based company that makes specialized coatings for medical devices, reported a cyberattack to federal regulators.

The initiative, dubbed the “Cyber Dome,” involves the creation of a German-Israeli cyber research center and expanded cooperation between Israel’s Mossad and Germany’s BND intelligence agency.