U.S. government seized $1 million from Russian ransomware gang

A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.

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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

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Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

Cisco disclosed a data breach including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users.

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New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts

The top cybersecurity official in New York told TechCrunch in an interview that Trump's budget cuts are going to put the government at risk from cyberattacks, and will put more pressure on states to secure themselves.

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Hackers are trying to steal passwords and sensitive data from users of Signal clone

The bug in the modified messaging app can expose users' “plaintext usernames, passwords, and other sensitive data,” per GreyNoise.

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