A roundup of recent cybersecurity news: The FBI is investigating a breach of its unclassified wiretapping and surveillance network, discovered February 17, with possible links to China's Salt Typhoon group. Europol dismantled two major cybercrime platforms — Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service operation responsible for 62% of phishing attempts blocked by Microsoft, and stolen data marketplace LeakBase with 142,000 users. LastPass warned customers of a sophisticated phishing campaign using display name spoofing to steal master passwords. Russian national Evgenii Ptitsyn pleaded guilty to administering the Phobos ransomware-as-a-service operation that extorted over $39 million from 1,000+ victims. Chainalysis reported sanctioned entities conducted $154 billion in crypto transactions in 2025, a 694% year-over-year increase.
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Europol takes down phishing outfit and dirty data distributorLastPass warns users about tricky phishing attacksCrypto flows to sanctioned entitiesSort: