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Patrick Howell O'Neill

Patrick Howell O’Neill is a cybersecurity reporter for CyberScoop based in San Francisco.

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(Francis Storr/ Flickr)

U.S., Russia fighting to extradite suspected Russian cybercriminal who ran $4 billion bitcoin exchange

Geopolitics

DanaBot — (Getty)

Cybersecurity is U.S. bank regulator’s top priority

Financial

Whole Foods investigating breach tied to point-of-sale systems

Technology

salon cryptomining — (Getty)

Hackers find unpatched servers to secretly mine $17,000 in Monero per month

Technology

Hawkeye. Photo: United States Navy.

Northrop Grumman awarded $14.5 million to build cybersecurity capabilities into surveillance planes

Government

europol — Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, was in on the bust. (Europol)

Europol: Ransomware is far and away criminals’ favorite attack method

Government

ad network malware — Scammers are filling ad networks with malicious ads that appear in Android apps. (Maurizio Pesce / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0)

AI now detects the majority of new malware on Android

Policy

(Gety Images)

The business models behind ATM malware empires

Financial

(yubico)

New dime-sized YubiKey adds more mobility to authentication keys

Technology