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crypto scams
$245 million in stolen crypto funded racketeering crew’s lavish lifestyle

A 22-year-old man built his fortune by breaking into strangers’ digital wallets, then spent it on nightclub tabs, private jets, and a fleet of cars worth millions. …

AI
Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks

AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google …

Microsoft 365 phishing
IT help-desk vishing tricks executives into handing over Microsoft 365 access

IT help-desk vishing calls, stolen session tokens, and sign-ins routed through residential proxies are behind a wave of data theft and extortion against Microsoft 365 and …

scammers
Scammers have figured out the best time to text you

The suspicious calls, texts, and DMs you got recently aren’t a coincidence, according to Malwarebytes. Scammers have worked out which platform gets them the best results …

sentence
Russian man indicted for spreading malware to 80,000 freelancers

A Russian national accused of using fake accounts on a freelance employment platform to spread malware to approximately 80,000 users has been indicted by a federal grand jury …

Phishing
Attackers are going after prominent individuals through OAuth phishing, FBI warns

Attackers are targeting prominent individuals, their relatives and personal contacts to gain persistent access to their accounts, including private emails and files, the FBI …

botnet
Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run

Sality, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that had been running for 23 years and infecting more than 15,000 machines worldwide, has been taken down in a joint operation by …

Phishing
Vishing campaign abuses Microsoft Teams to give attackers a foothold in company networks

A coordinated voice-phishing (vishing) campaign, named Spring Ring, used fake IT support accounts on Microsoft Teams to trick employees into installing malware or granting …

AI
Threat actors are posing as AI crawlers to hunt for exposed credentials

Attackers are disguising automated scanning as traffic from AI crawlers operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and other companies while searching websites for …

data breach
ShinyHunters claims it stole 284 million patient records from McKesson

Healthcare company McKesson disclosed a cybersecurity incident in which hackers got into third-party applications and stole data. McKesson is a major U.S. healthcare company …

arrest
Two alleged TeamPCP hackers arrested over global supply chain attacks

Two men from Western Australia have been charged after police allege they were part of TeamPCP, a cybercrime group that planted malicious code in open-source software, then …

Phishing
AnonyMousKIT phishing-as-a-service uses AI voice calls to steal iPhone passcodes

A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called AnonyMousKIT is automating the theft of Apple ID credentials needed to remove Activation Lock from stolen iPhones, SOCRadar …

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