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.

Fake Ledger Apps Steal Crypto Secrets via Malware
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