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It’s a pre-July 4th extravaganza! To celebrate, we dive into a little cybersecurity history with a story about the MySpace Samy worm, then we jumpe into the news of the week, including an update on the Fable 5 export control drama, and the emergence of the ARToken operator panel. Links ARTokens story: https://decipher.sc/2026/06/26/new-turla-stockstay-backdoor-emerges/ Scattered Spider […]
19-year-old Peter Stokes is one of several to be arrested for their alleged participation in Scattered Spider.
As part of the takedown, SocGholish infrastructure tied to fake browser-update scams was heavily impacted, including remediation of nearly 15,000 compromised WordPress sites.
The Silent Ransom Group, a data exfiltration and extortion actor, started posing as IT teams via phone calls and phishing emails sent to legal sector firms.
Law enforcement is increasingly targeting the “infrastructure layer” of cybercrime, rather than ransomware operators themselves.
Deniss Zolotarjovs, 35, of Moscow, Russia, was a member of a ransomware group called Karakurt, which was led by the former operators of Conti.
