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The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of a North Korean military hacker identified as Rim Jong Hyok. Part of the Andariel North Korean hacking group, Hyok and other Andariel operatives were linked to Maui ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure…

Meta has removed 63,000 Instagram accounts from Nigeria that were involved in sextortion scams, including a coordinated network of 2,500 accounts linked to 20 individuals targeting primarily adult men in the United States. The social media giant said these accounts are linked to an organized cybercrime group called ‘Yahoo Boys,’ that has recently increased its…

Image: MidjourneyProgress Software has warned customers to patch a critical remote code execution security flaw in the Telerik Report Server that can be used to compromise vulnerable devices. As a server-based reporting platform, Telerik Report Server provides centralized storage for reports and the tools needed to create, deploy, deliver, and manage them across an organization.…

The French police and Europol are pushing out a “disinfection solution” that automatically removes the PlugX malware from infected devices in France. The operation is conducted by the Center for the Fight Against Digital Crime (C3N) of the National Gendarmerie with assistance by French cybersecurity firm Sekoia, which sinkholed a command and control server for…