cybercrime

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• cybercrime
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Scattered Spider
• The Com

Florida man gets 10 years in prison in first Scattered Spider sentencing

Cyber Scoop August 21, 2025

Florida man gets 10 years in prison in first...

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• cybercrime
• Government

‘Rapper Bot’ hit the Pentagon in at least 3 cyberattacks

Cyber Scoop August 21, 2025

‘Rapper Bot’ hit the Pentagon in at least 3...

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• Akamai
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• botnets
• Cloudflare
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• DDoS
• Defense Criminal Investigative Service
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Digital Ocean
• Flashpoint
• Google
• hacking
• Mirai
• PayPal
• Threats
• Unit 221B

Officials gain control of Rapper Bot DDoS botnet, charge lead developer and administrator

Cyber Scoop August 19, 2025

Officials gain control of Rapper Bot DDoS botnet, charge...

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• crypto
• cryptocurrency
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Financial
• Garantex
• Government
• Grinex
• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
• ransomware
• Russia
• sanctions
• State Department
• Threats
• Treasury Department

US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its successor and affiliate firms

Cyber Scoop August 14, 2025

US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its...

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• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• ransomware
• Research
• SonicWall
• Threats
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability

SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability

Cyber Scoop August 11, 2025

SonicWall pins firewall attack spree on year-old vulnerability |...

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• Black Hat
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• incident response
• Microsoft
• Research
• Threat hunting
• Threat Intelligence
• Threats

Microsoft: An organization without a response plan will be hit harder by a security incident

Cyber Scoop August 8, 2025

Microsoft: An organization without a response plan will be...

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• BlackSuit
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• ICE
• ransomware
• Royal
• Russia
• Threats

BlackSuit, Royal ransomware group hit over 450 US victims before last month’s takedown

Cyber Scoop August 7, 2025

BlackSuit, Royal ransomware group hit over 450 US victims...

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• computer fraud
• conspiracy
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• fraud
• identity theft
• Nigeria
• scam
• tax

Nigerian accused of hacking tax preparation businesses extradited to US

Cyber Scoop August 6, 2025

Nigerian accused of hacking tax preparation businesses extradited to...

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• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• exploit
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• firewall
• known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV)
• ransomware
• Research
• SonicWall
• SSL
• Technology
• Threats
• virtual private network (VPN)
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability
• zero-days

SonicWall firewalls hit by active mass exploitation of suspected zero-day

Cyber Scoop August 5, 2025

SonicWall firewalls hit by active mass exploitation of suspected...

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• Austria
• Cisco Talos
• CoralRaider
• cybercrime
• Geopolitics
• Hungary
• infostealers
• Money
• Netherlands
• passwords
• SentinelLabs
• SentinelOne
• South Korea
• Threats
• Vietnam

‘Highly evasive’ Vietnamese-speaking hackers stealing data from thousands of victims in 62+ nations

Cyber Scoop August 4, 2025

‘Highly evasive’ Vietnamese-speaking hackers stealing data from thousands of...

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