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A U.S. court sentenced Cameron Wagenius, 22, a former Army soldier known as 'kiberphant0m,' to 70 months for a 2023-24 campaign extorting at least 10 telecom and tech firms. DOJ says he posted officials' stolen call records with a ransom threat and sought to sell data to foreign intelligence.

Three men who worked in incident response ran BlackCat attacks. One of them was simultaneously negotiating on behalf of ransomware victims — and passing the attackers his own clients' insurance limits.

LockBit, BlackSuit and Play didn't run their own servers. They rented them from a company in St Petersburg that answered no abuse reports and no takedown requests, and billed like any other host.