Montenegro extradited Turkish-Iranian Amir Barati to face US charges over a university hacking campaign that US officials say did $3.4 billion in damage. Where he chose to travel decided the case: police picked him up on holiday in Kotor, nine years after the charged hacking ended.
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Prosecutors added eight names to a 2018 indictment over 31.5 terabytes of stolen academic work. The target set has not changed: professors' mailboxes and university libraries.
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Operation Economic Outcast names nearly 60 targets, but the durable change is the standing authority to designate foreign firms in crypto, technology, gold, aviation and shipping.
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A week of takedowns removed people and froze assets across five separate actions, while the kit that manufactures the stolen Microsoft 365 sessions those crews depend on still sells on Telegram for $320 a month.
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Check Point says Microsoft's signed BTR.sys remediation driver can be repurposed as a kernel operation engine with no vulnerable driver needed. Signature-based blocking does not apply.
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