Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K members (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/leakbase-cybercrime-forum-seized/
Not good. The US federal government is hiring fewer and fewer people in cybersecurity roles in the face of budget slashing
Instead of the 75-plus agencies that typically showed up to the in-person fair, roughly 40 agencies were at February’s virtual event.
https://…
As a general matter the US Federal government can not hold a copyright.
As such the "Coalie" character (see article below) may well be fair game for use by any and all in counter-messaging.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh
Perplexity asks a US judge to force Dow Jones and the New York Post to hand over the queries they made to "fish" for a basis to sue for copyright infringement (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/p
Donnerstag: Risiko durch Googles API-Keys, Erfolge gegen Cybercrime & Phishing
Missbrauch offener Cloud-Schlüssel Googles Europol schließt LeakBase-Forum & Phishing-Plattform Tycoon2FA Datenschutz des BND nicht einklagbar #heiseshow
Team Cymru warns that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/iran-cisa-cybersecurity-war-threat.html