Rospotrebnadzor ended its quarantine on 7 October and freed most of the nearly 200 people held over a lab worker's death, after tests found no dangerous pathogen. What killed 28-year-old Daria Shipilova, and why the response far exceeded plague protocol, remains unexplained.
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Microsoft says Star Blizzard has sent fake event invitations to more than 100 organizations since January, many from hacked WordPress and cPanel sites. The group, long known for stealing email passwords, now uses the messages to install a Windows backdoor.
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build1 publisherOne report Microsoft says Russia's FSB-linked Star Blizzard sent fake event invitations to more than 100 organizations since January 2026. The lures pose as Chatham House and Atlantic Council events and carry a new Python backdoor, CosmicPulse, aimed at people working on Ukraine.
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US prosecutors charged Oxygen Forensics' CEO and a co-founder with hiding that five Russians owned the forensic firm and that its software was Russian-built. Police in seven EU states bought or accredited the tool, two of them this September.
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A data-sharing arrangement struck with Rosfinmonitoring in 2021 turned exchange records into evidence. The sum at issue was roughly $6,500.
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