Sergiu Gatlan is a News Reporter at BleepinComputer. With over a decade of experience, he specializes in cybersecurity and technology, covering critical topics such as cybercrime, data breaches, and privacy issues. Sergiu's work has been featured in CodeProject - For Those Who Code, NewsBreak, and BleepingComputer.
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Sergiu focuses on breaking news, government announcements, and press releases in the privacy & cybersecurity space. He would likely be receptive to pitches providing exclusive insights into trending cyber threats, data breaches, or emerging hacking techniques.
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By: Sergiu Gatlan
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their servers against a critical
The FBI warned on Tuesday that the Silent Ransom Group (SRG) extortion gang is now targeting U.S.-based law firms in in-person data theft attacks.
A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to targeting more than 145 children across the United States, some as young as 6 years old, in an eight-year-long sextortion scheme.
By: Sergiu Gatlan
Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang in April 2026.
A Romanian national was sentenced this week to 56 months in federal prison for breaking into an Oregon state government computer network and fr cyberattacks targeting dozens of other U.S. victims.
An unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the Gogs self-hosted Git service can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on Internet-facing instances.
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from 4.9 million accounts after hacking the U.S. telecom giant Charter Communications in early April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.
By: Sergiu Gatlan
A Google security engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million using confidential company data to place bets on the cryptocurrency-based Polymarket decentralized prediction market.
By: Sergiu Gatlan
A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for selling the personal information of over 7 million elderly Americans to Jamaican scammers.
Google says the Chrome Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) security feature is now generally available and is rolling out to all users to prevent account takeovers.
