New, by me:

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure of Stark Industries Solutions, an Internet service provider sanctioned last year by the EU as a frequent staging ground for cyber mischief from Russia’s intelligence agencies.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberattacks/

Previous reporting on Stark Industries:

May 2024: Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/

July 2024: The Stark Truth Behind the Resurgence of Russia's Fin7: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/the-stark-truth-behind-the-resurgence-of-russias-fin7/

September 2025: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/bulletproof-host-stark-industries-evades-eu-sanctions/

#russia #cybercrime #arrest #sanctions

Ah, the #copyfail clickbait posts are coming. Here’s my serious contribution. On your Linux machine add

initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init

to your kernel boot commandline (typically in grub). Reboot. You are now safe until the updated kernel packages become available. For distributions with the `grubby` command this is done as root with

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init"

This mitigation comes courtesy of Red Hat. Our engineers keep you safe :)

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Fresh gist: mitigating CVE-2026-31431 ("Copy Fail") on RHEL 8/9/10 with a tiny Ansible playbook.

It blacklists algif_aead via a kernel boot arg (initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init), reboots only when needed, and asserts the mitigation actually stuck after reboot. Idempotent & safe to re-run.

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20260501-CVE-2026-31431_RHEL_Mitigation.md

#Ansible #RHEL #Linux #InfoSec #SysAdmin #DevOps #CVE #CVE_2026_31431 #copyfail

A fascinating collection of vintage microscopes. Some serious steampunk vibes from all that brasswork! Inside an abandoned medical research institute, somewhere in Portugal.

#AbandonedPlaces #Portugal #Steampunk #Photography #Brass #Microscope #Medical

A manager working for a top surveillance company sold a bunch of powerful hacking tools to a Russian company. Those tools then ended up being used by the Russians. Here's what happens when hacking tools spiral out of control

Watch, subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxLqopMo5o

This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamics robot dogs with the heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing.

“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple, the artist who created them, told the AP. "Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don't see."

https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a