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August 2026

Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service

Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service

Swati KhandelwalAug 06, 2026Ransomware / Cybercrime A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up… 

CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild

CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild

Ravie LakshmananAug 06, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency… 

Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People

Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People

Swati KhandelwalAug 06, 2026Cybercrime / Law Enforcement Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of… 

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management… 

Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures

Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures

A macOS ClickFix operation spanning more than 250 front-end domains now fingerprints visitors before deciding whether to show them a malware lure, a change Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracked on infrastructure it had been watching for… 

OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes

OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes

Ravie LakshmananAug 05, 2026Cybercrime / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law…