The City of Columbus, Ohio, confirmed that 500,000 residents were affected by a July 18 ransomware attack by the Rhysida gang. The city also dropped its lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross Jr., who had allegedly downloaded city data from the dark web and threatened to share it, claiming that it was the right thing to do as Ross was simply exposing misrepresentations. The city remained unaware of any misuse of the stolen personal information.
North Korean Hackers Steal $10M with AI-Driven Scams and Malware on LinkedIn
North Korean group Sapphire Sleet, linked to the state, is estimated to have stolen over $10 million in cryptocurrency through a six-month social engineering campaign,