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ShinyHunters Gang Claims It Stole 9M Records From Medical Device MakerMedtronic is already facing at least a half-dozen proposed class action lawsuits filed in federal court just days after the medical device maker confirmed that cybercriminals recently hacked into its corporate IT systems. Plaintiffs include patients that use the company's cardiac devices and other products.

Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, has disclosed a security incident after a social engineering attack allowed hackers to access data in its Salesforce instance. [...]

Alleged Nation-State Hacker Being Held in Houston JailU.S. prosecutors allege 34-year-old Chinese national Xu Zewei operated under China’s Ministry of State Security to hack universities and firms during the pandemic, exploiting VPN and Exchange flaws and exfiltrating research data in a Silk Typhoon campaign.

Suspects accused of distributing malware and selling access to stolen Roblox accounts on Russian marketplaces

A cybercrime group of Brazilian origin has resurfaced after more than three years to orchestrate a campaign that targets Minecraft players with a new stealer called LofyStealer (aka GrabBot)

A 19-year-old dual United States and Estonian citizen arrested in Finland earlier this month faces federal charges in the U.S. alleging he was a prolific member of the notorious Scattered Spider hacking collective. [...]

A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy.  Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies between February 2020 and June 2021, including

Cybercrime Gang ShinyHunters Claimed to Steal 9M RecordsMedtronic has told federal authorities that cybercriminals hacked its corporate IT systems, but said the incident did not affect the medical device makers' products, manufacturing or distribution operations. Cybercrime gang ShinyHunters reportedly claimed responsibility for the hack.