T-Cybercrime

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Sep
Fifteen Years in the Making: The Sentencing of Ransomwareas- a-Service's Original Architect- 309

Fifteen Years in the Making: The Sentencing of Ransomwareas- a-Service's Original Architect- 309

August 7, 2026 When a US federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years
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03
Aug
When cybercrime borrows a spy's toolkit: the UAT-11795 campaign hiding inside everyday software- 292

When cybercrime borrows a spy's toolkit: the UAT-11795 campaign hiding inside everyday software- 292

July 18, 2026 A financially motivated, Russian-speaking hacking crew has spent over a year quietly trojanizing the installers of
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03
Aug
Nichirei and the price of ambiguity: what the RansomHouse extortion of Japan's cold-chain giant reveals about a widening pattern of unattributed pressure on Japanese industry- 278

Nichirei and the price of ambiguity: what the RansomHouse extortion of Japan's cold-chain giant reveals about a widening pattern of unattributed pressure on Japanese industry- 278

July 22, 2026 When Nichirei Corporation severed its own network connections on July 13, 2026, it did more than contain
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03
Aug
Canada's Signals Intelligence Agency Turns Its Offensive Toolkit on Criminal Networks, Not Just State Adversaries- 277

Canada's Signals Intelligence Agency Turns Its Offensive Toolkit on Criminal Networks, Not Just State Adversaries- 277

July 7, 2026 Canada's Communications Security Establishment has disclosed that it ran three offensive cyber operations against foreign
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03
Aug
What Medtronic's Own Notice Leaves Unsaid: A Breach, an Extortion Claim, and a Company That Won't Connect the Two- 276

What Medtronic's Own Notice Leaves Unsaid: A Breach, an Extortion Claim, and a Company That Won't Connect the Two- 276

July 5, 2026 Medtronic, the world's largest medical device manufacturer, has begun formally notifying 3.83 million people
3 min read
22
Jul
Bulletproof No Longer: The Unsealing of the Media Land Indictment- 270

Bulletproof No Longer: The Unsealing of the Media Land Indictment- 270

July 16, 2026 Three years after federal prosecutors first built their case, the US Justice Department this week unsealed an
2 min read
21
Jul
Digital Growth, Deepening Exposure: Nigeria's Race to Regulate a Rising Cybercrime Economy- 263

Digital Growth, Deepening Exposure: Nigeria's Race to Regulate a Rising Cybercrime Economy- 263

July 18, 2o26 Nigeria's fraud statistics tell an uncomfortable story about the relationship between reported incident volume and
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21
Jul
Free Hosting, Weaponized: How 148 npm Packages Turned Students' Browsers Into a Botnet- 260

Free Hosting, Weaponized: How 148 npm Packages Turned Students' Browsers Into a Botnet- 260

July 15, 2026 For roughly two weeks in May, a campaign hiding inside the npm package registry turned an ordinary
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20
Jul
Trust as the Attack Surface: Inside the ClickFix Campaigns Powering ACR Stealer- 258

Trust as the Attack Surface: Inside the ClickFix Campaigns Powering ACR Stealer- 258

July 19, 2026 No vulnerability was patched, no exploit chain engineered, in the campaigns Microsoft disclosed distributing ACR Stealer through
2 min read
20
Jul
The Certificate Authority's Blind Spot: How a Trusted Signing Chain Became a Weapon- 255

The Certificate Authority's Blind Spot: How a Trusted Signing Chain Became a Weapon- 255

July 18, 2026 In April 2026, a routine support interaction at DigiCert — a customer service chat, a screenshot-disguised ZIP
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