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LAB52 has been monitoring a campaign dubbed “Operation MacroMaze”, which, based on its characteristics, can be attributed to APT28, also known as Fancy Bear
lab52.io/blog/operati...

⚡️ Russian occupation authorities sentenced a 69-year-old Ukrainian pensioner to 15 years in prison for donating to the Ukrainian military.

An illegal, Russian-controlled court in occupied Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, issued a "guilty" verdict against Svitlana Loy for "high treason"

Anthropic's Claude went rogue when placed under external simulation pressure, even threatening blackmail and planning the murder of an engineer who wanted to shut it down
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U.S. Investment Fund Sues Russia Over $225Bln in Unpaid Tsarist-Era Debts - The Moscow Times American investment fund Noble Capital RSD has filed a lawsuit against Russia seeking more than $225 billion in unpaid debt and other financial obligations of the Russian Empire that the Bolsheviks re...

American investment fund Noble Capital RSD has filed a lawsuit against Russia seeking more than $225 billion in unpaid debt and other financial obligations of the Russian Empire that the Bolsheviks repudiated after seizing power in 1917.
www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Unveiling GRU's Information Operations Troops with OSINT and Medals  - CheckFirst We tracked the infrastructure of one of the most secretive units of Russian intelligence by using phaleristics (i.e. the academic study of medals and military decorations) and traditional OSINT techni...

Security researchers have revealed new details about Russia’s secretive Information Operations Troops (VIO) after analyzing 118 photos of military insignia, patches, and pennants.
checkfirst.network/unveiling-gr...

Bulgarian Activists Claim Discovery of Secret Wagner Group Base Linked to “Terrorist Activity” A Bulgarian group reports discovering a site linked to Russia's Wagner PMC near Kladnitsa, raising concerns about possible terrorist activities.

⚡️ Bulgarian activists claim they have uncovered a secret base for Russia’s Wagner mercenary group linked to terrorist activity.

Russian attack on Odesa last night.

One person killed. Residential buildings damaged. A night of horror for so many people.

Russian war crimes are mounting up.

BfV & BSI warn that a likely state-controlled threat actor is conducting phishing attacks via messaging services such as Signal. The targets are high-ranking individuals in politics, military, & diplomacy and investigative journalists in Germany & Europe. www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/C...

eSentire's Threat Response Unit share technical artifacts uncovered in their investigation of a malicious command attempting to deploy Prometei on a Windows Server belonging to a customer. www.esentire.com/blog/tenant-...

Ukraine’s energy company DTEK published footage showing how its thermal power plants looked before the full-scale invasion and how they look now. The company said its facilities have been attacked by Russian forces more than 220 times. #Ukraine

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

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We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.

In China, hidden cameras in hotels record guests and broadcast them live, and then distribute the footage through messengers and adult websites.
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Houston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex charge - The Texas Tribune Andrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor.

NEW: Insurrectionist pardoned by Trump has been arrested for child sex crimes. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

This may be my last story for the Post. Here is an archive version, free to all. archive.is/2026.02.06-2...

Malicious dYdX Packages Published to npm and PyPI After Main... Malicious dYdX client packages were published to npm and PyPI after a maintainer compromise, enabling wallet credential theft and remote code executio...

🚨 We detected malicious #dYdX client packages published to npm and PyPI after a maintainer account compromise, enabling wallet theft and remote code execution.

Full investigation → socket.dev/blog/malicio... #crypto

Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’

A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown targeted only “crooks” has been arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The FBI, CISA, and UK’s NCSC released a joint advisory on how hostile nation-state linked threat actors exploit end-of-support edge devices to access and compromise data.
www.ic3.gov/csa/2026/260...

YouTube video by DEFCONConference DEF CON 33 - Voice Cloning Air Traffic Control: Vulnerabilities at Runway Crossings - Andrew Logan

We’ve heard a lot about use of AI to clone the voices of celebrities, execs, and politicians. Here’s a @defcon.bsky.social talk from @helicoptersofdc.bsky.social about cloning the voices of air traffic controllers to give false instructions to pilots. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKwx...

A 79-year-old woman was injured and hospitalized. Another woman, aged 89, was treated by medics at the scene.

In the Shevchenkivskyi district, a fire broke out after a strike hit a four-story office building; it was quickly brought under control.

Last night, Russia carried out yet another attack on Ukraine

#Kyiv
A parking lot was on fire in the Obolonskyi district,rescuers extinguished the fire in two cars

In the Solomianskyi district,the blast wave shattered windows in 4 residential buildings and damaged a kindergarten and an outbuilding

Pinterest sacks engineers for tracking staff job cuts The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.

Pinterest has sacked two engineers for tracking which workers lost their jobs in a recent round of layoffs.
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Russian TV-expert Alexey Samoilov mocks Trump openly saying they used time between bombardments for their 'special military measures'labelling them as "energy truce". Additionally, Trump was called a "grandpa". But why wouldn't they do that since Trump says "we'll take anything"?

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

React Server Components Exploitation Consolidates as Two IPs Generate Majority of Attack Traffic Two months after CVE-2025-55182 was disclosed on December 3, 2025, exploitation activity targeting React Server Components has consolidated significantly.

Two IPs now generate 56% of all CVE-2025-55182 exploitation traffic.

One deploys cryptominers. The other opens reverse shells.

We dug into the infrastructure. What we found goes back to 2020.

https://www.greynoise.io/blog/react2shell-exploitation-consolidates

China-driven cyber groups escalate global attacks, put Korea and Taiwan at risk China-driven cyber groups escalate global attacks, put Korea and Taiwan at risk Stealthy, AI-fueled intrusions target critical infrastructure as regional tensions intensify

According to the 2025 Threat Roundup released recently by Vedere Labs under Forescout, global security corporations, as of last year, China had the most state-backed hacking groups active worldwide, with 210.
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The city of Dnipro suffered the largest Russian missile and drone attack: over 8,000 people were left without heating.

An energy infrastructure facility was also damaged. In total, damage has been reported at five locations across the city.

Russia attacked Zaporizhzhia.

As a result,two 18-year-olds are dead, seven people were injured, including a child, according to the head of the Regional administration Head, Ivan Fedorov.

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CERT-UA Урядова команда реагування на комп’ютерні надзвичайні події України, яка функціонує в складі Державної служби спеціального зв’язку та захисту інформації України.

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team has warned of a new wave of targeted cyberattacks exploiting a critical MS Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) disclosed on January 26, 2026
cert.gov.ua/article/6287...

Russia struck a bus carrying miners with a Shahed drone as it was transporting them after their shift. The death toll has now reached 13, and another 8 miners have been injured

Medvedev continues blaming Europe for everything:

"I have the impression that a gang of halfwits has seized power in Europe and is now leading the European Union.

It is some kind of pack of madmen - either completely inadequate and incompetent..."