Security Leftovers
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Suspected Vastaamo psychotherapy centre hacker extradited from France to Finland
A well-known Finnish hacker is suspected of intentionally leaking sensitive personal information about thousands of mental health patients and attempting to extort cryptocurrency from them.
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His lawyer, Peter Jaari, said on Saturday that the 25-year-old suspect had been transferred to Vantaa Prison near Helsinki.
Kivimäki was taken into custody near Paris on 3 February during a routine police check. He was on the run from a European arrest warrant issued by Finnish police last October. French authorities approved his extradition last week.
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A NATO Minnow Reels From Cyberattacks Linked to Iran
Albania has been the target of repeated digital assaults believed to be linked to its sheltering of an Iranian dissident group on its soil.
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How Russian cybercrime has changed during the war in Ukraine
Russia's cybercrime underground is starting to recover from the disruptions caused during the ongoing war, which could spell bad news for U.S. companies, experts told Axios.
The big picture: Before the war started, some still hoped Russian President Vladimir Putin might crack down on the deluge of ransomware gangs in his country.
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (asterisk, git, mariadb-10.3, node-url-parse, python-cryptography, and sofia-sip), Fedora (c-ares, golang-github-need-being-tree, golang-helm-3, golang-oras, golang-oras-1, and golang-oras-2), Oracle (httpd:2.4, kernel, php:8.0, python-setuptools, python3, samba, systemd, tar, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (webkit2gtk3), SUSE (phpMyAdmin, poppler, and postgresql12), and Ubuntu (dcmtk and linux-hwe).
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Security updates for Friday
"Security updates have been issued by Debian (binwalk, chromium, curl, emacs, frr, git, libgit2, and tiff), Fedora (qt5-qtbase), SUSE (c-ares, kernel, openssl-1_1-livepatches, pesign, poppler, rubygem-activerecord-5_1, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (linux-aws).