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Newest story built on therecord.media reporting: Anne Arundel County says an intruder copied files from its systems (October 16, 2026). therecord.media reporting informs the Security, Invest, and Product desks, most often on Data Breaches, Ransomware, and Russia-Ukraine War. At least 60 of our current stories draw on it.
Proofpoint has agreed to acquire Varonis in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3 billion, or $49.75 a share. Varonis expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027, and until then the two companies stay independent.
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Ukraine's military can use Starshield on the move again, a Defense Ministry source says, after a speed limit disrupted drone missions. The cause is unexplained, and officials are in talks with SpaceX and its partners to find it.
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BeyondTrust says a suspected China-nexus actor has exploited Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 since late August. SaaS customers were patched on October 8, but self-hosted installs without automatic updates must be updated by hand.
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Citizen Lab said Discover-Tech's ads delivered zero-click Candiru attacks to at least 45 Al Jazeera devices. Google and IAB Europe have delisted the vendor, but Citizen Lab cannot yet attribute the attacks to any party.
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Coopérative U CEO Dominique Schelcher confirmed on October 12 that a cyber-attack hit refrigeration at several of its stores from October 11. The Danfoss link, the loss figures and the other chains named come from press reports, and Danfoss was asked for comment.
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A cyberattack on BAE Systems has halted bankruptcy notices from federal courts, the Administrative Office of the US Courts said on Thursday. BAE says the incident is isolated to one system, and the office did not respond when asked if data was stolen.
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UK Legal Aid Agency says about 250,000 records stolen in its April 2025 breach predate 2007, the oldest from 1978. The bulk of the data still falls between January 2007 and 16 May 2025, three years earlier than the 2010 start the agency confirmed in May.
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Microsoft and Health-ISAC seized domains behind YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, phishing services tied to more than 1 billion messages since January. Microsoft's Steven Masada wrote that the three are only part of a larger criminal network.
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Russian authorities have arrested three of the four suspected members of DataSuckers in the Dodo Pizza investigation, Risky.Biz and Nasha Niva report. Police tracked a 19-year-old from Barnaul through his home IP address, according to Risky.Biz.
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Anne Arundel County, Maryland, confirmed that an unauthorized actor copied files from its systems after detecting activity on August 28. The Rhysida ransomware gang claimed the attack, but the county has not said what was taken or whether residents are affected.
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North Macedonia and the FBI arrested the alleged OLVX administrator, accused of selling stolen data through 1,500-plus seller accounts. The suspect, 20, also ran the ONEMILI Telegram fraud-tools group, police said.
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Federal prosecutors charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan with planting an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it has no indication that source code, model weights or customer data were taken.
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Cisco Talos and Recorded Future tie a June 2025 to August 2026 campaign against CIS governments to UAT-6275. Talos rates its Kazakhstan nexus at medium confidence, and Recorded Future tracks the same activity as TAG-193.
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Ledger confirmed on Oct. 10 that one affected customer's wallet held an unauthorized implant, after drains that trackers put near $93 million. That proves tampered hardware reached a victim, but investigators have not tied comparable equipment to the rest of the losses.
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Brooklyn's District Attorney and the FBI seized 241 domains and 112 servers from a three-year crypto scam aimed at Russian speakers. The same operators then offered victims fake fund recovery, and about $300,000 has been recovered against tens of millions lost.
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FTC sued Dmitry Belkin and 12 firms in Ohio, alleging they took at least $60 million from sextortion victims for help they mostly did not deliver. The complaint is an allegation, but it gives anyone advising victims specific things to check in a paid helpline.
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DOJ raided more than 40 Texas residences on September 21-25 and seized 187 laptops and other devices it says North Koreans used in an IT-worker scheme. The FBI says the workers now also hire freelancers in South Asia and West Africa, so US hosts are one intermediary among several.
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Yandex shut its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third of its sites knocked out within days. Cloud customers absorbed outages across more than 80 services, cryptobriefing reported, and the only share-price reading, a fall of nearly 4%, came after the second strike.
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Ahold Delhaize, operator of more than 9,400 stores, confirmed it took some systems offline after a cybersecurity incident. A spokesperson was not immediately available to answer BleepingComputer's questions on scope or encryption.
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North Korea's Kimsuky targeted Ukrainian diplomacy and security experts with fake conference invitations, Genians reported Monday. Most observed attempts failed, and Genians' researchers say the aim may be intelligence on the war.
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