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Detained ShinyHunters hacker reportedly helping FBI track down fellow members

A suspected ShinyHunters member known as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI track down the rest of the group. Reuters reports that Jordanian …

sentence
Former US Air Force members behind million-dollar BEC scheme head to prison

Two men who ran BEC and phishing campaigns against US businesses while serving in the Air Force have been sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison. According to …

door
FBI job portals remain offline after ShinyHunters claims breach via PeopleSoft zero-day

The FBI’s online portals for job applicants (at apply.fbijobs.gov) and special agent applicants (at fbijobs.gov/special-agents) are still unavailable, following what …

user
Scammers impersonate cops, use arrest threats to extort victims

Scammers are posing as police officers and federal agents, threatening arrest unless victims pay up, the FBI warns. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) …

world
FBI takes down one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services

The FBI has seized the domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service officials call one of the longest running “booter” operations in existence. The …

eye
Iranian hackers use CHOSEN BRICK data-stealing malware to spy on dissidents and journalists

Iranian state cyber actors are deploying malware called CHOSEN BRICK against individuals they see as a threat to the regime, reaching victims through social messaging apps and …

CISA
Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns

China-based AI companies are using large-scale knowledge distillation campaigns to copy capabilities from leading U.S. AI models, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory …

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 …

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 …

critical infrastructure
US agencies warn of AI-powered attacks on Siemens industrial controllers

Threat actors are using AI to write exploit scripts targeting internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used across water, energy, …

ransomware
Medusa ransomware gang has hit over 500 organizations, CISA warns

Medusa ransomware has breached more than 500 organizations since it first appeared in June 2021, the FBI, CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in …

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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison

A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley …

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