Another teenage hacker charged as feds continue Scattered Spider crackdown

Remington Ogletree, a 19-year-old resident of Texas and Florida, is at least the sixth alleged member of the Scattered Spider hacking collective to have federal charges filed against them in recent months.

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FSB Uses Trojan App to Monitor Russian Programmer Accused of Supporting Ukraine

A Russian programmer accused of donating money to Ukraine had his Android device secretly implanted with spyware by the Federal Security Service (FSB) after he was detained earlier this year.
The findings come as part of a collaborative investigation by First Department and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.
“The spyware placed on his device allows the operator to track a target device’s

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Pirated corporate software infects Russian businesses with info-stealing malware

Recent targets of the RedLine info-stealing malware include Russian businesses that are looking for cracked copies of corporate software, researchers say.

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Romania annuls presidential election over alleged Russian interference

A second round vote was scheduled for this Sunday, a runoff between a little-known far-right candidate and the liberal Elena Lasconi, but will now not take place.

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Can data embassies make cross-border AI safer?

Inconsistent data laws across the world are pushing organizations to think of diplomatic privacy solutions.

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Why SOC Roles Need to Evolve to Attract a New Generation

The cybersecurity industry faces a growing crisis in attracting and retaining SOC analysts.

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Open Source Security Priorities Get a Reshuffle

The “Census of Free and Open Source Software” report, which identifies the most critical software projects, sees more cloud infrastructure and Python software designated as critical software components.

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Ethyca Raises $10 Million for Data Privacy Platform

Data privacy solutions provider Ethyca has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Aspenwood Ventures and AVP.

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In Other News: Cloudflare Abuse, UK and EU Cybersecurity Reports, FBI Gen-AI Alert

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: ENISA and NCSC release cybersecurity reports, abuse of Cloudflare services, FBI warns of gen-AI enabling fraud. 

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SonicWall Patches 6 Vulnerabilities in Secure Access Gateway

SonicWall has released patches for multiple high-severity flaws in the SMA100 SSL-VPN secure access gateway.

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