Posted on 10/12/2026 1:52:45 PM PDT by CFW
A Canadian cybersecurity executive who specializes in negotiating with ransomware hackers has reportedly been arrested on federal charges in Pennsylvania.
Edward Dubrovsky, 54, was arrested Thursday in the Philadelphia area, according to federal court documents cited by Reuters. The arrest comes as the FBI investigates ShinyHunters, a hacking group that recently claimed to have stolen information concerning nearly every FBI employee. Authorities have not publicly confirmed whether Dubrovsky’s arrest is connected to that investigation.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday in a post on X that agents had arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, the group believed to be responsible for a recent incident involving the FBI’s jobs website.
“Our agents in the field have arrested another suspected co-conspirator of the ShinyHunters group – the group believed to be responsible for the recent FBIjobs.gov incident, which occurred on a platform managed by a third-party vendor,” Patel wrote.
Patel said the arrest was the latest involving the network in a matter of days as the FBI works to dismantle the group and pursue additional leads. He did not identify the arrested suspect by name, and authorities have not publicly confirmed whether Dubrovsky is the individual referenced in his statement.
Federal court records filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania list charges involving conspiracy to threaten the confidentiality of information to extort money and interference with commerce, Reuters reported.
The specific conduct underlying the federal allegations remains unclear because the criminal case in the Eastern District of Texas is sealed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinyHunters
This article is about the hacker group; not to be confused with shiny hunters.
ShinyHunters
ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker and extortion group that has been active since 2019[2][3] and is said to have been involved in a significant number of data breaches.[2]
They're really mad, now.
The specific conduct underlying the federal allegations remains unclear because the criminal case in the Eastern District of Texas is sealed.
Like I told members of the church the other day, if the authorities WANT to find you, they can (and will). They can find these Indian scammers who cheat people out of money and could kill them for what they’ve done. They just don’t want to. However mess with the big boys themselves and watch (read) what happens to you.
It’s like the illegal surveillance of Candidate and President Trump, it didn’t matter until congress found out they were spying on them too. Then all of a sudden they write a bill giving themselves $500k to sue the government.
New story and interesting, but not a new phenomenon.
A long-long time ago you already had this happening.
On another note-
I still have the FR and a few news sites I sort of trust, but the Internet in the big picture is dead.
There is so much control being exercised by government on what gets to come in, by the big telecom providers, the OS system, social media has become just a few monopolies like Meta, that at this point the web which once was a free and open forum of information and communication is dead.
Between government wanting to control, and the soccer mom demanding control, the WWW has become a dim, and sterile place of idiot shorts, moron pundits, and trash news hidden behind pay walls.
What we call the “dark web,” and where you can sort of get to if you jump through hoops, this place which is today described as some criminal, dubious place, is really just the last vestiges of what once was a free and open web.
Yep. These ransomware extortionists cannot seem to be caught unless they try it on the FBI. Now all of a sudden, they’re taking action.
Ransomware extortionists should never be let out of prison.
“Like I told members of the church the other day, if the authorities WANT to find you, they can (and will). They can find these Indian scammers who cheat people out of money and could kill them for what they’ve done. They just don’t want to. However mess with the big boys themselves and watch (read) what happens to you.”
That was obvious by the Garland persecution of January 6 Defendants. The FBI/DOJ tracked every person in DC and even some that weren’t there on that weekend.
Ninety-nine percent of the time, when the law wants someone, they can find them. When someone is allowed to get away with crime time after time, it’s because someone high up wants that chaos or crime to continue. Just like the Somalian financial fraud in MN. The state knew it was happening and they knew who was doing it. But it benefited certain people for the fraud to continue.
Exactly.
Financial crimes might be given special lifetime lifestyle limitation punishments:
Vehicles:
No driving of a motorized vehicle except:
1. one having a Blue Book value of less than 40% of the average,
2. a work vehicle not capable of exceeding 28 miles per hour and only on private property or travelling no more than 50 feet on a public road within any 60 minute period.
No riding in a vehicle other than:
1. that of public transit organization vehicle with a seating capacity of at least 10,
2. a motorized vehicle except those having a Blue Book value of less than 40% of the average,
3. in the passenger space of a law enforcement vehicle, or
4. in a medical transport vehicle as appropriate to your apparent medical need.
Housing:
No being in a residential dwelling between 6pm and 7am that is larger than 1,200 square feet or has water or mountain views except a homeless shelter or as may be personally permitted by the probation department within the last 12 months.
Retail Stores:
No being in a retail store except grocery stores, stores selling substantial quantities of milk, bread or hamburger, or as personally permitted by the probation department within the last 12 months.
Restaurants:
No being in a restaurant except as an hourly employee or as a customer of a multi-unit, fast-food restaurant.
Clothing:
No wearing of any garment or accessory which bears a name, trademark, is not primarily monochromatic, or contains silk or the hide of any creature.
Shoes:
No wearing of any item of footwear that could be expected to have intellectual property protection except a trademark in its interior or on its underside that would not normally be seen.
Jewelry and Accessories:
No possessing or wearing of any item of jewelry or any accessory which contains a gemstone or a precious metal other than that of one’s wedding ring, or if born female, one’s engagement ring having a value of less than $2,000 in 2026 dollars.
No acquisition or aiding the acquisition of any item of jewelry containing a precious metal or gemstone except as personally permitted by the probation department within the last 12 months.
Why can’t AI find and stop these scammers
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