Cybercrime
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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Slack-like platform used to share child abuse materials
The uncommon end-to-end encrypted platform Wire has become a topic of conversation after a “trusted physician and family man” was jailed for almost a decade.
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This will get you hacked: from early probing to trust abuse
From insider recruitment and AI-powered investment scams to LLM reconnaissance and QR code phishing, Cybernews’s new security research round-up, This will get you hacked, offers a clearer view of how attackers operate and where defenders can respond.
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Europol arrests leader of Foxtrot “violence-as-a-service” network
A Swedish national has been arrested for operating the Foxtrot criminal network, an illicit organization that groomed children into crime.
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Californian privacy regulator fines two marketing firms for selling health information
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board (CalPrivacy) has imposed fines on two data brokers. One of them sold personal and sensitive information of Alzheimer patients, drug addicts, and other patients.
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Cloudflare fined €14M for violating anti-piracy regulations
The Italian competition authority, AGCOM, has issued a fine to Cloudflare for ignoring an official request to block certain IP addresses, which are notorious for being used to promote piracy.
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Cyber incidents cost firms up to $5m and can take weeks to recover from: report
Companies experience weeks-long disruptions after cyber incidents, with none able to recover operations within a day, new research shows.
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