Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev appeared in a San Francisco federal court on Monday after being arrested in Cyprus in May 2025 and extradited to the U.S. last week.
The healthcare data company Aesto informed federal regulators this week that more than 9.5 million people had sensitive information leaked during a cyberattack last December.
The group, which calls itself VantaCore, has targeted at least seven known victims, Russian cybersecurity firm F6 said in a report published this week.
Hackers reportedly gained access to payment accounts used by two Russian fundraising projects supporting Ukrainians and political prisoners, exposing donor email addresses and limited payment card information.
U.S. and European authorities disrupted the long-running botnet Sality, turning the malware’s peer-to-peer architecture against itself to cut thousands of infected computers off from operators.
In this GCN article, Staffan Truvé, CTO and Co-Founder at Recorded Future, explores how machine learning is speeding the processing of cybersecurity data.