Ukraine arrests suspected admin of XSS Russian hacking forum
The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday at the request of the Paris public prosecutor's office. The French authorities state that the investigation was opened roughly four years ago, uncovering activities related to ransomware and other cybercrimes, which yielded multi-million-dollar profits. This was despite the forum publicly banning all ransomware topics on the platform in May 2021. "The investigation, ope