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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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04
Sep
A Familiar Hand, A New Weapon: Storm-1175 Steps Out From Medusa's Shadow- 308

A Familiar Hand, A New Weapon: Storm-1175 Steps Out From Medusa's Shadow- 308

August 11, 2026 A ransomware group going quiet for four months usually means one of two things: law enforcement caught
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04
Sep
The Whole Pipeline: How Breached Data Becomes Cash, Leverage, and Sextortion Material- 306

The Whole Pipeline: How Breached Data Becomes Cash, Leverage, and Sextortion Material- 306

August 13, 2026 A data breach is usually reported as a single event — a company discloses an intrusion, a number
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04
Sep
Seeing Is No Longer Believing: How Synthetic Media Weaponizes Trust in Two Unrelated Worlds- 301

Seeing Is No Longer Believing: How Synthetic Media Weaponizes Trust in Two Unrelated Worlds- 301

August 8, 2026 A flooded province in southern China and a subscription platform for adult content creators would seem to
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Aug
The Long Wire: How Beijing Builds Access That Outlasts Its Cover Stories- 297

The Long Wire: How Beijing Builds Access That Outlasts Its Cover Stories- 297

August 12, 2026 Four episodes surfaced within days of each other in August 2026, and none of them, on its
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03
Aug
FortiBleed and the anatomy of an unforced error: how 86,000 stolen passwords, not a software flaw, opened Foreign Office networks, NHS suppliers, and global shipping to the same campaign- 280

FortiBleed and the anatomy of an unforced error: how 86,000 stolen passwords, not a software flaw, opened Foreign Office networks, NHS suppliers, and global shipping to the same campaign- 280

July 7, 2026 By the time the UK's National Cyber Security Centre issued an urgent alert on July
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03
Aug
Fifteen Years, Nine Countries: The EU and UK Name the FSB Behind Europe's Infrastructure Sabotage Campaign- 275

Fifteen Years, Nine Countries: The EU and UK Name the FSB Behind Europe's Infrastructure Sabotage Campaign- 275

July 14, 2026 The United Kingdom and European Union have taken a step neither has taken before: attributing years of
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19
Jul
Anubis's real innovation isn't the ransomware — it's making destruction irreversible- 250

Anubis's real innovation isn't the ransomware — it's making destruction irreversible- 250

July 1, 2026 Anubis, a ransomware-as-a-service operation that emerged in late 2024 as a spinoff of the
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19
Jul
London's police made 700,000 data requests last year. Nobody had to ask a judge- 237

London's police made 700,000 data requests last year. Nobody had to ask a judge- 237

May 20, 2026 The Metropolitan Police made more than 700,000 requests to technology companies for communications data in 2025
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19
Jul
When a ransomware gang gets ransomware'd: what The Gentlemen's leak reveals about the RaaS economy- 232

When a ransomware gang gets ransomware'd: what The Gentlemen's leak reveals about the RaaS economy- 232

May 10, 2026 In early May 2026, one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service operations running today discovered
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