Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator, was sentenced to 70 months for helping the BlackCat/Alphv group.
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Mount Royal University Confirms Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack
Hackers accessed the institution’s internal network and deleted two drives containing employee, student, and university data.
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County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group
The alleged victim, believed to be a small Ohio county, reportedly paid the extortion group to prevent the public release of sensitive stolen data.
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Agentic AI Used to Conduct Ransomware Attack via Langflow
Attack demonstrates how LLM agents can combine known exploitation techniques with real-time reasoning to automate complex, multi-stage intrusions.
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Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US
Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100 million in ransom payments.
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BlueHammer Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
The Microsoft Defender vulnerability CVE-2026-33825 was exploited in the wild as a zero-day before patches were released.
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More Klue Breach Victims Identified as Hackers Get Hacked
Roughly two dozen companies have notified their customers of the Klue-Salesforce incident impact.
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Microsoft Teams Relay Servers Abused in DragonForce Ransomware Attack
The attackers deployed a new Go-based backdoor that uses Microsoft Teams servers for command-and-control.
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Ukrainian Man Pleads Guilty in US to Conti Ransomware Charges
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko admitted to working on the development of a loader for the Conti gang.
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Check Point VPN Zero-Day Exploited in Qilin Ransomware Attacks
The authentication bypass vulnerability allows attackers to establish VPN connections without a valid password.
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