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Third segment: cybercrime
  
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  <title><![CDATA[CircleID]]></title>
  <link>https://circleid.com/topics/cybercrime</link>
  <description>CircleID - Cybercrime</description>
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  <dc:date>2026-09-01T16:03:00+00:00</dc:date>

  
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      <title><![CDATA[International Operation Disrupts Sality Botnet After More Than Two Decades]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/international&#45;operation&#45;disrupts&#45;sality&#45;botnet&#45;after&#45;more&#45;than&#45;two&#45;decades</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Authorities disrupted the decades-old Sality botnet by targeting its decentralized peer-to-peer network and supporting domains, cutting infected machines off from malicious payloads while beginning the longer task of identifying and remediating compromised systems.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-03T08:46:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thirty-Five Years Later, Moscow Comes Looking for the Soviet Union&#8217;s Domain]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/thirty&#45;five&#45;years&#45;later&#45;moscow&#45;comes&#45;looking&#45;for&#45;the&#45;soviet&#45;unions&#45;domain</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Russia is imposing state identity verification on .su, the Soviet Union's surviving domain, as researchers uncover criminal infrastructure across the namespace and ICANN pursues a retirement process that could eventually remove it from the global root.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-01T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[FulcrumSec Claims 86 GB Data Theft in Manchester Airports Breach]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/fulcrumsec&#45;claims&#45;86&#45;gb&#45;data&#45;theft&#45;in&#45;manchester&#45;airports&#45;breach</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[FulcrumSec claims it stole 86 GB from Manchester Airports Group, including detailed booking and travel data, while the operator has confirmed a breach but not the group's account of its scale or method.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-31T14:59:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN’s New Data Sharpens the Picture of DNS-abuse Enforcement]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;updates&#45;dns&#45;abuse&#45;enforcement&#45;data</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN's updated DNS-abuse data distinguishes allegations from actionable complaints and malicious registrations from compromised domains, offering a clearer test of whether tougher contractual requirements are strengthening enforcement or simply generating a larger volume of reports.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-28T09:41:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/dns&#45;abuse&#45;and&#45;criminal&#45;infrastructure&#45;beyond&#45;definitions&#45;and&#45;blocklists</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Research suggests criminals may control a striking share of newly registered gTLD domains, raising questions about whether ICANN's definitions, contractual safeguards and enforcement mechanisms are keeping pace with the industrial scale of technology-facilitated harm.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-21T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Reagan-Era Cyber Strategists Can Teach America Today]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/what&#45;reagan&#45;era&#45;cyber&#45;strategists&#45;can&#45;teach&#45;america&#45;today</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reagan-era cyber strategists anticipated today's transnational threats, proposing international treaties, public-private cooperation and infrastructure protections. As America again considers aggressive action against cybercriminals, their largely forgotten blueprint offers both lessons and warnings.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-17T12:01:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Regional Domain Registration Habits Are Changing Global Portfolio Strategy]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/how&#45;regional&#45;domain&#45;registration&#45;habits&#45;are&#45;changing&#45;global&#45;portfolio&#45;strategy</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Regional domain habits are reshaping global portfolio strategies, as European companies favor country codes, APAC embraces layered local structures, and North America sticks with generic domains, while rising fraud adds urgency to defensive registrations.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-17T10:39:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trump Enlists Private Firms for Offensive Cyber Operations]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/trump&#45;enlists&#45;private&#45;firms&#45;for&#45;offensive&#45;cyber&#45;operations</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration will allow vetted American companies to conduct surveillance and offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal groups, extending private-sector capabilities into cybercrime enforcement while keeping missions subject to federal approval, oversight and legal safeguards.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-13T08:33:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Phishing That Hasn&#8217;t Happened Yet: MX Records as Bad-Faith Evidence in UDRP Proceedings]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;phishing&#45;that&#45;hasnt&#45;happened&#45;yet&#45;mx&#45;records&#45;as&#45;bad&#45;faith&#45;evidence&#45;in&#45;udrp&#45;proceedings</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Inactive cybersquatted domains may conceal active email infrastructure. MX records can corroborate bad faith in UDRP disputes when weighed with other evidence, helping panels address fraud risks before harm occurs without conflating capability with misconduct.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-07-24T08:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Who Registers the Domain That Steals Your Data? The Registrar Accountability Gap in India&#8217;s DNS Abuse Crisis]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/who&#45;registers&#45;the&#45;domain&#45;that&#45;steals&#45;your&#45;data&#45;the&#45;registrar&#45;accountability&#45;gap&#45;in&#45;indias&#45;dns&#45;abuse&#45;crisis</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[India's DNS abuse crisis exposes a registrar accountability gap: malicious domains remain online while vulnerable users bear the cost. Concentrated abuse patterns suggest stronger oversight and faster mitigation could significantly reduce predictable harms nationwide today.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-07-24T07:53:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Question Isn&#8217;t Whether the Harm Is Real - It&#8217;s Who Should Act]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;question&#45;isnt&#45;whether&#45;the&#45;harm&#45;is&#45;real&#45;its&#45;who&#45;should&#45;act</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Measuring online abuse can reveal its scale, but not who should intervene. Effective policy must distinguish harm from contractual responsibility, identify the actors best placed to act, and target remedies where they can work effectively.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-07-17T08:05:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What the i2Coalition Article Misses About DNS Abuse]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/what&#45;the&#45;i2coalition&#45;article&#45;misses&#45;about&#45;dns&#45;abuse</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Authors defend research showing malicious domain registrations occur at industrial scale, arguing that blocklist data is reliable and that policymakers must prioritize prevention alongside mitigation to curb cybercriminal exploitation of the domain name market globally.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-07-15T08:32:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ZEGO&#8217;s Cyberattack Pushes Bavarian Textile Firm Into Insolvency]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/zegos&#45;cyberattack&#45;pushes&#45;bavarian&#45;textile&#45;firm&#45;into&#45;insolvency</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A cyberattack forced Bavarian textile specialist ZEGO into insolvency after a six-week production shutdown. The company is pursuing restructuring efforts to preserve jobs, customer relationships and its future amid growing cyber risks.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-07-14T12:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[FBI Warns of Russian Cyber Campaign Targeting Vulnerable Routers]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/fbi&#45;warns&#45;of&#45;russian&#45;cyber&#45;campaign&#45;targeting&#45;vulnerable&#45;routers</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The FBI and international partners warn that Russia's FSB Center 16 is exploiting vulnerable routers worldwide, highlighting persistent weaknesses in network security and urging organizations to adopt stronger protections to safeguard critical infrastructure against intrusion.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-07-14T12:12:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Internet, Beyond a Right: A Critical Infrastructure]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;internet&#45;beyond&#45;a&#45;right&#45;a&#45;critical&#45;infrastructure</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[As governments, economies and essential services become ever more dependent on connectivity, the internet can no longer be viewed solely as a right. It must be treated as critical infrastructure, protected, regulated and made resilient against disruption.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-06-22T09:53:00-07:00</dc:date>
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