Cybercrime
Hackers have attacked a Belgian school and are demanding €50 for every child
Cybercriminals have hacked the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Instituut (OLV) Pulhof, a secondary school in Berchem, Belgium, and are demanding a ransom from the school and parents. The threat actor claims they will publish all stolen data on the dark web if the ransom isn’t paid by Monday.
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City of New Britain hit with a ransomware attack
The City of New Britain in central Connecticut, US, experienced system disruption due to a ransomware attack for over 48 hours.
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After FBI’s RAMP seizure, cybercriminals scatter as mistrust spreads on dark web forums
Cybercriminals are already beginning to scatter across alternative platforms following the FBI seizure of RAMP, a long-running underground forum used by ransomware-as-a-service gangs, extortionists and initial access brokers.
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China executes 11 gang members in first death penalties against online scammers
China has carried out the executions of 11 members of the Ming family, a crime clan accused of running industrial-scale online scam centers in Myanmar. It marks the country’s first use of the death penalty against bosses of the region’s cyber fraud industry.
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WinRAR flaw used against Ukraine now fueling global cybercrime, Google warns
Google Threat Intelligence warns that a critical flaw in the widely used file-compression tool WinRAR is being actively exploited by Russia- and China-linked state hackers, with cybercriminal groups rapidly adopting the same techniques for financially motivated attacks.
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Bragging hackers unintentionally expose $60M theft from US government crypto wallets
The US Marshals Service (USMS) confirms it is investigating a potential breach of its crypto wallets after an internet sleuth traces a $60 million theft to a hacker openly bragging about it inside “The Com.”
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Healthcare ransom asking price drops by 80%: here’s why
A new report has highlighted a sector under sustained attack, but with a notable shift in attacker behavior. France is also revealed as the nation with the biggest uptick attacks on its health service.
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London’s ultra-prime property market rocked by council cyberattacks
A cyberattack on local government IT systems has impacted search systems, threatening to delay thousands of property transactions in some of the capital’s most expensive areas.
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Nova claims KPMG cyberattack
The Dutch branch of KPMG has allegedly been attacked by Nova, a ransomware-as-a-service operation, according to reports.
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Korea’s data breaches reveal a global shift towards targeted phishing
Analysis of South Korea’s recent wave of data breaches shows how large-scale leaks are reshaping phishing tactics worldwide, replacing mass scams with precision attacks. Cybercriminals are increasingly using data-stealing mobile apps and leaked personal data to carry out highly targeted campaigns.
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Reports link ShinyHunters to SSO vishing attacks, but key details reserved for Okta paying customers
There are reports that threat actor ShinyHunters is behind an active voice phishing campaign, aimed at stealing single sign-on (SSO) credentials for Okta, Microsoft, and Google accounts.
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He hacked Apple and the US gov: Video reveals hacker’s 'studio apartment' prison cell
A short video circulating on X shows one of the internet’s most notorious hackers waiting out extradition from a French prison cell, which looks more like a studio apartment than a jail.
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Cambodian scam mastermind finally arrested after being exposed years ago
Who knows if infamy helped, but Kuong Li, a 50-year-old Cambodian national featured in a popular BBC investigation, has finally been arrested. The prominent businessman, unsurprisingly, denies all allegations.
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KongTuke’s CrashFix campaign uses fake Chrome adblocker to deploy ModeloRAT
A worker searching for an adblocker ended up installing malware instead after threat actor KongTuke pushed a fake Chrome extension that hijacked the browser, causing repeated crashes and baiting users into running malicious commands.
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Hackers impersonate doctors to write fake prescriptions for Xanax
Prosecutors have charged seven people who supposedly hacked into doctors’ accounts and issued counterfeit electronic prescription drugs. Some were narcotic.
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Jeanine Pirro announces victory over hacker who infiltrated Supreme Court, other government agencies
One hacker infiltrated US government agencies just to post them on his dedicated Instagram account “@ihackedthegovernment.”
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Ukraine-Germany police raid homes linked to Black Basta ransomware group
Ukrainian and German police raided homes linked to the members of the notorious Black Basta ransomware group, which is responsible for over 700 compromised organizations worldwide.
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Researcher steals cookies from the cookie stealers: here’s what happened next
In a ‘Reverse Uno’ move, security researchers at CyberArk exploited a flaw in the backend of a cookie-stealing malware service, so they stole their cookies to find out more about them.
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Mustang Panda exploits US Maduro operation with phishing attack
A Chinese-linked cyberespionage group targeted US government and policy-related officials with Venezuela-themed phishing emails in the days after the US operation to topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, cybersecurity researchers said Thursday.
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ASUS and TP-Link routers affected by WiFi crash flaw, but the issue is fixable
New research has identified a WiFi vulnerability that allows attackers within wireless range to repeatedly crash or reboot certain consumer routers by sending malformed wireless traffic.
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