Russia arrests alleged owner of cybercrime forum LeakBase, report says TechCrunch By: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 26 March 2026 at 00:36 Russian state-owned media reported that police in Russia arrested the administrator of LeakBase, a large hacking forum.
The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam TechCrunch By: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 13 March 2026 at 22:55 The FBI believes a series of video games published on Steam in the last two years were embedded with malware by the same hacker.
US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine TechCrunch By: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 11 March 2026 at 01:44 Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.