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FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Thursday arrested an executive at a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell...
A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months
How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man...
FBI and Spanish Police Arrest Alleged Cyber Army of Russia Reborn Member
Spanish police and the FBI arrested an alleged Cyber Army of Russia Reborn member as international efforts against pro Russia cyberattacks continue worldwide...
Deepfake posting sites depicting famous women taken down by feds
Thanks to Uncle Sam, anyone trying to find nonconsensual intimate deepfakes on CFake.com and SOCFake.com will be disappointed. The US Departments of Justice DOJ and Homeland Security has seized the two domain names under the TAKE IT DOWN Act. The TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed in May 2025, is the first...
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID...
Information Security in Small-Scale Protests: Surveillance of Ugandan Anti-EACOP Protesters
We examine the information security practices of Ugandan climate activists protesting the development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline EACOP. We conducted five-week fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda, which included interviews with 13 anti-EACOP activists. Through an inductive analysis, we report...
Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler aka Dort, 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the developmen...
2026: The Year of AI-Assisted Attacks
On December 4, 2025, a 17-year-old was arrested in Osaka under Japan’s Unauthorized Access Prohibition Act. The young man had run malicious code to extract the personal data of over 7 million users of Kaikatsu Club, Japan's largest internet cafe chain. When asked, the young man shared his...
US-Estonian Suspect Arrested Over Alleged Scattered Spider Cyberattacks
US-Estonian suspect Peter Stokes arrested in Finland over alleged ties to Scattered Spider, facing US charges for cyberattacks, fraud, and data breaches...
French Police Arrest HexDex Hacker Over Mass Data Theft and Leaks
French police arrest HexDex hacker, a 20-year-old suspect accused of mass data theft and leaks targeting government, sports groups, and firms...
Alleged German DDoS-for-Hire Kingpin Behind Fluxstress Caught in Thailand
Alleged German cybercrime figure behind Fluxstress and Neldowner arrested in Thailand after years running global DDoS-for-hire services across countries...
LeakBase Admin Arrested in Russia Over Massive Stolen Credential Marketplace
The alleged administrator of the LeakBase cybercrime forum has been arrested by Russian law enforcement authorities, state media reported Thursday. According to TASS and MVD Media, a news website linked to the Russian Interior Ministry, the suspect is a resident of the city of Taganrog. The suspe...
Dark Web Roast - January 2026 Edition
Dark Web Roast - January 2026 Edition By Trellix Advanced Research Center · February 11, 2026 Executive Summary Welcome to January 2026's underground intelligence roundup, where criminal masterminds continue to demonstrate that the phrase "honour among thieves" remains the greatest oxymoron in...
Operation Endgame Dismantles Rhadamanthys, Venom RAT, and Elysium Botnet in Global Crackdown
Malware families like Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and the Elysium botnet have been disrupted as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation led by Europol and Eurojust. The activity, which took place between November 10 and 13, 2025, marks Please remove image compression the latest phase...
Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List
A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest...
Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy Igorevich Rybtsov , a...
School’s AI system mistakes a bag of chips for a gun
An artificial intelligence AI detection system at Kenwood High School mistakenly flagged a student’s bag of potato chips as a gun, triggering a police response. The 16-year-old had finished eating a bag of Doritos and crumpled it up in his pocket when he was done. But the school’s AI-based gun...
UK Police Arrest Two Teens Over Kido Nursery Ransomware Attack
Met Police arrested two teenagers over the Kido nursery ransomware attack, which exposed data for 8,000 children. Full details on the hack and police investigation...
