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The company confirmed it has employed Deloitte to lead a forensic review of the cyber-attack

The malicious variant distributed spyware to collect personal data and send it to the hacker

Secureworks also warns of rise of info-stealers

National Republican Army wants to overthrow Putin regime

Star failed to disclose payment for promotional content

Two years of scamming + $10 million leeched = 25 years in prison. Just in time for #Cybermonth.

An ex-NSA employee has been charged with trying to sell classified data to the Russians (but instead actually talking to an undercover FBI agent).

It’s a weird story, and the FBI affidavit raises more questions than it answers. The employee only worked for the NSA for three weeks—which is weird in itself. I can’t figure out how he linked up with the undercover FBI agent. It’s not clear how much of this was the employee’s idea, and whether he was goaded by the FBI agent. Still, hooray for not leaking NSA secrets to the Russians. (And, almost ten years after Snowden, do we still have this much trouble vetting people before giving them security clearances?)

Mr. Dalke, who had already left the N.S.A. but told the agent that he still worked there on a temporary assignment, then revealed that had taken “highly sensitive information” related to foreign targeting of U.S. systems and information on cyber operations, the prosecutors said. He offered the information in exchange for cryptocurrency and said he was in “financial need.” Court records show he had nearly $84,000 in debt between student loans and credit cards.

Dalke reportedly requested $85,000 in return for additional information in his possession

Payment details of some of the victims were successfully stolen by the attackers

ESET said the vulnerability was exploited at least twice via a specific user-mode module