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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 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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Leaked chats reviewed by Recorded Future News show the Silent Ransom Group directing US-based recruits it calls 'agents' into law firm offices. For firms holding client data, an intrusion can start at reception with someone posing as a courier or an IT worker.
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Belarusian Cyber Partisans say they took admin access to Moscow's health department network in 2023, including systems linked to other agencies. Solar, the Rostelecom unit that found the intrusion, puts the first trace a year later, so the two sides disagree on how long the attackers were inside.
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Lawmakers from both parties urged appropriators to fund Cyber Command's $11 million psychological-support request after summer suicides at Fort Meade. The command had already ranked the training No. 2 on its unfunded priority list, warning that burnout and force degradation will continue without the money.
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Labour MP Graeme Downie's report puts the yearly cost of Russian cyberattacks and sabotage to Britain at £2bn to £2.5bn, a figure it calls a floor. It arrives before a budget expected later this month, arguing the harm cannot be weighed against defence spending while government does not count it.
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University of Illinois Chicago confirmed hackers stole data from its College of Medicine servers in a ransomware attack the Booba gang says netted 344 GB. The outage stayed inside one of UIC's 16 colleges, and the investigation into whose records were taken is still open.
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Polish invoicing platform Fakturownia, used by over 600,000 businesses, says an attacker may have reached bank details, password hashes and integration tokens. With the count of affected accounts still open, the listed data already supports forged bank-change notices to customers' business partners.
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Arizona's Supreme Court says hackers copied personal data on "many Arizonans," with no ransomware deployed and no ransom demand as of Monday. For the people in those records, the risk now is direct misuse of the data, and no extortion talks are under way to show what the thieves intend.
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Katherine Sutton, the Pentagon's top cyber policy official, gave Cyber Command seven mandatory wellbeing steps in an August 31 memo, two due within 30 days. The memo puts dates on operator strain, though whether workload played any part in the deaths is still unknown.
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Dodo Pizza confirmed hackers accessed customer names, addresses, birth dates and order details, while the DataSuckers group claims 68 million records. How many of its customers across 28 countries are affected rests, for now, on the attackers' word.
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Prosecutors in Kansas say the group crossed state lines to reach ATMs it believed were architecturally softer, which makes the machine on the street the control that mattered. The FBI counts 700 such incidents in 2025.
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BleepingComputer confirmed the attacker's text file and the defaced page on Clop's existing onion address. The full server access, the stolen source code and the Tor private key are still ShinyHunters' own account of it.
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Russian authorities restrict mobile service during Ukrainian drone raids to deny the drones cellular navigation. The same outage degrades the Telegram, app and SMS alerting that residents are told to use instead of sirens.
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The MSMT says Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan and Argentina had all acted on last October's UN findings by July. The named targets are an alleged money launderer in Argentina and an alleged document forger in Pakistan.
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The group says it took documents, server configurations, passwords and staff communications from Russia's Central Election Commission and the contractors building Vybory, and Important Stories says it authenticated the files.
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The Coast Guard sent cyber specialists, a vessel inspector and FBI operators onto a tanker underway in the Gulf of Mexico after indications of compromise, and says it has so far found no danger to the crew or the environment.
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Prosecutors in Ukraine's Lviv region say three men spent about a year harvesting Roblox session cookies and running them through software that valued each account before sale. They put the potential take at $480,000.
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Two Norwegian agencies opened criminal investigations into Telenor on Tuesday over the customer data its Myanmar unit handed the junta and the sanctioned surveillance equipment sold along with the unit.
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Chen Yixin, who runs the Ministry of State Security, cited the two frontier models in the Cyberspace Administration's journal as evidence of a disruptive upgrade in offensive cyber capability, without alleging either was used against China.
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