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Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?

Extortionists are now threatening to swat hospital patients — calling in bomb threats or other bogus reports to the police so heavily armed cops show up at victims' homes — if the medical centers don't pay the crooks' ransom demands.…

Fitzpatrick faces potentially decades in prison later this month, so may as well get some foreign Netflix in beforehand

The cybercriminal behind BreachForums was this week arrested for violating the terms of his pretrial release and will now be held in custody until his sentencing hearing.…

'Almost everything' wiped in the telecom attack, says Ukraine's top cyber spy

Russia's Sandworm crew appear to have been responsible for knocking out mobile and internet services to about 24 million users in Ukraine last month with an attack on telco giant Kyivstar.…

Miscreants mock Google-owned security house: 'Change password please'

Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant's Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop, telling its admins to change the password.…