Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Conor Fitzgerald Allegedly Violated Computer Monitoring Requirement, VPN BanThe FBI arrested Conor Fitzgerald, the admitted administrator of the notorious, now-defunct BreachForums data breach forum and marketplace, for violating the conditions of his presentencing release, after he allegedly used VPN software and evaded mandatory monitoring of his computers.

23K nodes earned operator more than $500K – and now perhaps jail time The FBI says it has dismantled another botnet and collared its operator, who admitted hijacking tens of thousands of machines around the world to create his network of nodes.…

Also: 3D printing gun mods = jail time; France fines Clearview AI for ignoring fine; this week's critical vulns, and more in brief Japanese automaker Toyota has admitted yet again to mishandling customer data – this time saying it exposed information on more than two million Japanese customers for the past decade, thanks to a misconfigured cloud environment. …

A couple have already been jailed, others shown the door for embezzling or arranging sham contracts Chinese web and gaming giant Tencent has admitted it fired more than 100 people in 2022 for various forms of corruption – some so serious it reported them to local police.…