Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Police arrested the alleged admin of XSS.is, a major cybercrime forum whose trusted escrow service helped power the underground economy. On 22 July 2025, French and Ukrainian police arrested a 38-year-old man in Kyiv and shut down XSS.is, the most influential Russian-language cybercrime forum of the past decade. Europol, which coordinated the operation under the […]

Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.…

PLUS: Euro-cops take down investment scammers; Fancy Bear returns to Ukraine; and more Infosec In Brief The Alabama state government is investigating an unspecified "cybersecurity event" that it said has affected some state systems, but didn't involve the theft of citizen's personal info.…

Pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for Russian state broadcasting shutdown Ukrainian hackers shut down Russian state news agency VGTRK's online broadcasting and streaming services on Monday – president Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday – as Kremlin officials vowed to bring those responsible for the "unprecedented" cyber attack to justice.…

'Operation Endgame' Disrupted 5 Botnets Including IcedID and SmokeLoaderAn international law enforcement operation resulted in the arrests of four botnet operators and the seizure of more than 100 servers used as infrastructure for malware dropper botnets. Armenian police arrested one person and Ukrainian police arrested three. German police are seeking eight suspects.

SentinelLabs researchers identified the malware as a new variant of AcidRain, which shut down thousands of Viasat satellites in Ukraine and Western Europe in 2022

Kyivstar announced its mobile network had temporarily been shut down due to a major cyber-attack on its systems

Fraudsters operated from Ukrainian call centers

A group of Ukrainian hackers known as the Cyber.Anarchy.Squad claimed an attack that took down Russian telecom provider Infotel JSC on Thursday evening. [...]

Researchers say the specialized OT malware has similarities with Industroyer, which was used to take down power in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2016

The 2022 AcidRain wiper attack, which shut down satellite services for thousands of people in Ukraine and Western Europe, was extensively discussed during the CYSAT conference in Paris

A group of imposters operating out of a Ukrainian call center defrauded thousands of victims while pretending to be IT security employees at their banks and leading them to believe that attackers had gained access to their bank accounts. [...]

Meta Platforms on Tuesday disclosed it took steps to dismantle two covert influence operations originating from China and Russia for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) so as to manipulate public debate

The Ukrainian cyber police (SSU) has shut down a massive bot farm of 1,000,000 bots used to spread disinformation on social networks. [...]

Several ministry websites shut down by Anonymous affiliates in retaliation for Belarus' support of Russia’s Ukrainian invasion.

​Hackers continue to target Russia with cyberattacks, defacing Russian TV to show pro-Ukrainian messages and taking down the RuTube video streaming site. [...]

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday disclosed that it thwarted a cyberattack by Sandworm, a hacking group affiliated with Russia's military intelligence, to sabotage the operations of an unnamed energy provider in the country

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Sandworm tried on Friday to take down a large Ukrainian energy provider by disconnecting its electrical substations with a new variant of the Industroyer malware for industrial control systems (ICS) and a new version of the CaddyWiper data destruction malware. [...]

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it obtained a court order to take control of seven domains used by APT28, a state-sponsored group operated by Russia's military intelligence service, with the goal of neutralizing its attacks on Ukraine

US chipmaker Intel announced Tuesday night that it had suspended all business operations in Russia, joining tech other companies who pulled out of the country due to the invasion of Ukraine. [...]