Both DomainTools and Resecurity have recently covered last year's KnownSec's data leak
DomainTools Investigations | DTI
THE KNOWNSEC LEAK: Yet Another Leak of China’s Contractor-Driven Cyber-Espionage Ecosystem - DomainTools Investigations | DTI
Leaked Knownsec documents reveal China’s cyberespionage ecosystem. Analyze TargetDB, GhostX, and 404 Lab’s role in global reconnaissance and cr...
Resecurity | Knownsec Data Breach: A Trove of Espionage Tradecraft with an Insider Narrative
 tl;dr: This is not your typical govt cyber contractor
Spanish authorities have arrested a man for allegedly hacking Canadian credit union Desjardins in 2019. Juan Pablo Serrano was arrested in November and is still in custody awaiting extradition https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/juan-pablo-serrano-most-wanted-fugitive-quebec-arrested-9.7035053
The US DOJ has indicted a former Northeastern University coach for hacking the Snapchat accounts of almost 570 women to steal and sell nude photos
 
Resecurity has released 105 pages containing the email subjects extracted from the one of the email inboxes of John Erin Binns, aka IRDev, one of the members of the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters hacking group
Resecurity | Cyber Counterintelligence (CCI): When 'Shiny Objects' trick 'Shiny Hunters'
France frees Russian basketball player in Conti ransomware investigation https://www.reuters.com/world/france-releases-russian-man-wanted-us-cyberhacking-lawyer-says-2026-01-08/
According to Emsisoft, ransomware groups had a massive year claiming between 8,100 and 8,800 victims last year, between 33% and 46% growth from the previous year (depending on sources)
The State of Ransomware in the U.S.: Report and Statistics 2025
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Cloudflare says that BGP routing anomalies right before the US intervention and arrest of Nicolas Maduro appear to have been just "an accident" https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/
Meta has allegedly silently deployed anti-device fingerprinting protections for its WhatsApp service. https://medium.com/@TalBeerySec/whatsapp-silent-fix-of-device-fingerprinting-privacy-issue-assessment-the-good-the-not-so-bad-9127b5215e28
Samsung, the world's largest smart TV maker over the past two decades, said at the annual CES conference that it will add AI capabilities into every of its TV models going forward. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tv-makers-tout-ai-ces.html
The data on more than 8,000 users of far-right dating site WhiteDate was scraped and leaked online after its administrators didn't secure their WordPress site properly https://cybernews.com/security/investigator-exposes-white-supremacist-sites-users/