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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...

The FBI and the Dutch National Police said Tuesday that they had arrested suspected member of the notorious cyber group ShinyHunters, the group that claimed responsibility for last week's defacing the FBI's jobs website and bragged that it had stolen data about FBI personnel and job applicants. The Dutch National Police said Tuesday that the suspect is a 24-year-old from Amsterdam, and was arrested on September 15 on suspicion of being a member of ShinyHunters. That means he was already in custody days before ShinyHunters announced it had hacked the FBI jobs website, which was first reported on Sept. 22...

Kash Patel is facing a major security breach at the FBI after hackers claimed to have stolen personal data on every employee and job applicant at the bureau. ShinyHunters, a notorious hacking gang, said it obtained FBI agents' names, home addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth, and even details on their spouses. The gang also defaced the FBI's jobs website on Tuesday, writing: 'This site has been seized by ShinyHunters.' The message mocked the seizure notices the bureau plasters on criminal sites it takes down. They then trolled Donald Trump, ending the message with the president's trademark Truth Social...