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3 'Young IT Specialists' Arrested After Malware Tied to Government Agency InfectionRussian police have arrested "three young IT specialists" in Moscow, charging them with developing and selling the notorious Meduza information-stealing malware, and members of their group using the infostealer to breach a Russian government institution in May and exfiltrate data.

Rare case of the state turning on its own, but researchers say it may be doing so more often Russia's Interior Ministry says police have arrested three suspects it believes helped build and spread the Meduza infostealer.…

The Russian authorities have arrested three individuals in Moscow who are believed to be the creators and operators of the Meduza Stealer information-stealing malware. [...]

Peter Williams, a former general manager at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to stealing and selling confidential cybersecurity information to a Russian vulnerability exploit broker. [...]

The open-source command-and-control (C2) framework known as AdaptixC2 is being used by a growing number of threat actors, some of whom are related to Russian ransomware gangs

The former general manager of defense contractor Trenchant has admitted selling zero-days to Russian broker

US Cites Risk of Treaty Being Weaponized by Authoritarian Regimes, Privacy ConcernsThe U.S. declined to sign the new U.N. cybercrime convention despite support from 72 nations and its backing by Russia and China over fears it could be exploited by authoritarian states to legitimize surveillance, censor dissent and pressure cross-border data cooperation.

Organizations in Ukraine have been targeted by threat actors of Russian origin with an aim to siphon sensitive data and maintain persistent access to compromised networks

Fake views from Moscow's pet media outlets appear in about one in five responses Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, raising fresh questions over whether AI risks undermining efforts to enforce sanctions on Moscow-backed media.…

Everest Extortion Group Lists Dublin AirportA Russian data extortion group threatened Sunday to release passenger data putatively stolen from the Dublin Airport days after its operator said it investigated a breach stemming from a September cybersecurity incident that affected airports across Europe.