Tag: cybercrime
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Vulnerabilities in Sitecore CMS Platform Allow Excute Arbitrary Code Remotely
Security researchers at watchTowr Labs have uncovered a devastating chain of vulnerabilities in Sitecore Experience Platform that could allow attackers to completely compromise enterprise websites without authentication. The research reveals how cybercriminals could poison website cache systems, escalate privileges, and execute remote code on systems used by thousands of organizations worldwide. HTML Cache Poisoning Enables…
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Google Urges 2.5B Gmail Users to Reset Passwords After Salesforce Breach
A sophisticated voice phishing operation has emerged as a significant threat to organizations worldwide, with cybercriminals successfully infiltrating Salesforce environments to steal sensitive data and demand ransom payments. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has identified this financially motivated campaign, designating the primary threat cluster as UNC6040, which has demonstrated alarming success in breaching corporate networks through…
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AI-Powered Cyber Crime Raises Worldwide Alarm Bells.
AI-Powered Cyber Crime Raises Worldwide Alarm Bells. A new report from Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Amazon and Google, revealed a major shift in the cybercrime landscape. Through the use of Anthropic’s own AI model (Claude) and coding agent (Claude Code), an unnamed hacker was able to carry out an >>unprecedented
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KI greift erstmals autonom an
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…
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Feds Seize $6.4M VerifTools Fake-ID Marketplace, but Operators Relaunch on New Domain
Authorities from the Netherlands and the United States have announced the dismantling of an illicit marketplace called VerifTools that peddled fraudulent identity documents to cybercriminals across the world.To that end, two marketplace domains (verif[.]tools and veriftools[.]net) and one blog have been taken down, redirecting site visitors to a splash page stating the action was undertaken…
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Inside the Scammer’s Mind: Attack Data Revealed
Inside the Mind of a Scammer: New Research That Unravels the Latest Fraud Trends To outsmart cybercriminals, you need to get inside their heads”, decipher their motives, anticipate their tactics. That’s exactly what our team of experts at Arkose Labs did. We pored over 12 months of data from some of the most heavily targeted…
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Cybercrime increasingly moving beyond financial gains
Tags: attack, awareness, business, ciso, computer, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, disinformation, espionage, finance, government, group, hacker, hacking, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, malicious, military, network, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-analysis, russia, strategy, theft, threat, tool, ukraine, vulnerability, wormsrcset=”https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?quality=50&strip=all 892w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=223%2C300&quality=50&strip=all 223w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=768%2C1033&quality=50&strip=all 768w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=761%2C1024&quality=50&strip=all 761w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=518%2C697&quality=50&strip=all 518w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=125%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 125w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=62%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 62w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=357%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 357w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=268%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 268w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=186%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 186w” width=”761″ height=”1024″ sizes=”auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px”> Incibe. En la imagen, Patricia Alonso GarcÃa.”We are very redundant when talking about cybercrime, because we always associate it with economic motivations,” says Hervé Lambert, global consumer operations…
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Threat Actors Use Facebook Ads to Deliver Android Malware
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning their sights from desktop to mobile, exploiting Meta’s advertising platform to distribute a sophisticated Android banking trojan disguised as a free TradingView Premium app. Bitdefender Labs warns that these threat actors have shifted tactics after months of targeting Windows users with fake trading and cryptocurrency ads, now focusing worldwide on smartphone…
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Mac Malware ‘JSCoreRunner’ Abuses Online PDF Tool to Spread
A sophisticated new Mac malware campaign has emerged that exploits users’ trust in free online PDF conversion tools, demonstrating how cybercriminals continue to evolve their tactics to bypass modern security measures. Cybersecurity firm Mosyle has exclusively disclosed the discovery of JSCoreRunner, a previously unknown Mac malware strain that achieved zero detections on VirusTotal at the…
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Cybercrime schläft nie wie das SOC Bedrohungen stoppt, bevor Sie davon erfahren
Cybercrime schläft nie wie das Security Operations Center Bedrohungen stoppt, bevor Sie davon erfahren. Hier stellen wir das SOC vor. First seen on tarnkappe.info Jump to article: tarnkappe.info/advertorial/cybercrime-schlaeft-nie-wie-das-soc-bedrohungen-stoppt-bevor-sie-davon-erfahren-320159.html
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New Mac Malware Dubbed >>JSCoreRunner<< Weaponizing PDF Conversion Site to Deliver Malware
A sophisticated new Mac malware campaign has emerged that exploits users’ trust in free online PDF conversion tools, demonstrating how cybercriminals continue to evolve their tactics to bypass modern security measures. Cybersecurity firm Mosyle has exclusively disclosed the discovery of JSCoreRunner, a previously unknown Mac malware strain that achieved zero detections on VirusTotal at the…
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Agentenbasierte Cyberkriminalität – Warum KI-Agenten Cyberangriffe schneller und gefährlicher machen
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/ki-agenten-cyberangriffe-a-c9f67f01012a7009a6df534933d0133c/
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TamperedChef Malware Disguised as Fake PDF Editors Steals Credentials and Cookies
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cybercrime campaign that’s using malvertising tricks to direct victims to fraudulent sites to deliver a new information stealer called TamperedChef.”The objective is to lure victims into downloading and installing a trojanized PDF editor, which includes an information-stealing malware dubbed TamperedChef,” Truesec researchers Mattias WÃ¥hlén, Nicklas First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Anthropic Warns of AI-Powered Cybercrime in New Threat Report
Anthropic’s August report reveals hackers, North Korean operatives, and state actors misused its Claude AI for extortion, fraud, and espionage. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-warns-ai-powered-cyber-crime/
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Cryptohack Roundup: Scammer Posing as UK Police Steals Bitcoin
Also: Taiwan Charges 14 in $41M Fraud; 1,200 Arrested in Cybercrime Bust. This week, a scammer posed as police to steal bitcon, Taiwan charged 14 in a $41M fraud case, U.S. regulators lifted a consent order on Anchorage Digital, U.S. federal prosecutors said writing code alone is not a crime and the U.S. Commodity Futures…
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Dark Reading Confidential: A Guided Tour of Today’s Dark Web
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 9: Join us for a look around today’s Dark Web, and find out how law enforcement, AI, nation-state activities, and more are reshaping the way cybercriminals conduct their dirty business online. Keith Jarvis, senior security researcher at Sophos’ Counter Threat Unit joins Dark Reading’s Alex Culafi for a conversation you don’t…
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Cryptohack Roundup: Scammer Posing as UK Police Steals Bitcon
Also: Taiwan Charges 14 in $41M Fraud; 1,200 Arrested in Cybercrime Bust. This week, a scammer posed as police to steal bitcon, Taiwan charged 14 in a $41M fraud case, U.S. regulators lifted a consent order on Anchorage Digital, U.S. federal prosecutors said writing code alone is not a crime and the U.S. Commodity Futures…
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Anthropic Blocks Hackers Attempting to Exploit Claude AI for Cyber Attacks
Anthropic, a leading AI research company, has successfully disrupted multiple attempts by cybercriminals to misuse its Claude AI model for sophisticated cyberattacks, as detailed in their latest Threat Intelligence report. The company has implemented advanced safeguards, including real-time classifiers and hierarchical summarization techniques, to detect and mitigate these abuses. By leveraging these technical measures, Anthropic…
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Agentic AI coding assistant helped attacker breach, extort 17 distinct organizations
Cybercriminals have started >>vibe hacking
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New Research Explores Emulating Scattered Spider Tactics in Real-World Scenarios
Experts have described methods for mimicking the strategies of the advanced persistent threat (APT) group Scattered Spider in a recent in-depth analysis by cybersecurity company Lares, allowing enterprises to strengthen their defenses through adversarial cooperation. Lares specializes in threat emulation, replicating real-world tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) observed in cybercriminal activities. By dissecting incidents like…
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Anthropic detects the inevitable: genAI-only attacks, no humans involved
Tags: ai, attack, business, ciso, control, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, dns, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, malicious, malware, open-source, openai, RedTeam, threat, tool, warfarenot find.”There is potentially a lot of this activity we’re not seeing. Anthropic being open about their platform being used for malicious activities is significant, and OpenAI has recently shared the same as well. But will others open up about what is already likely happening?” Brunkard asked. “Or maybe they haven’t shared because they don’t…
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TDL001 – Cybersecurity Explained: Privacy, Threats, and the Future – Chester Wisniewski
Tags: access, ai, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ciso, computer, country, crime, crimes, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, edr, email, finance, firewall, gartner, government, guide, hacker, hacking, Hardware, infosec, Internet, jobs, linkedin, mail, malicious, microsoft, military, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, ransomware, risk, russia, scam, skills, software, sophos, spam, sql, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, virus, vulnerability, wifi, windowsSummary “The Defenders Log” Episode 1 features host David Redekop and guest Chet Wisniewski discussing the dynamic world of cybersecurity. Wisniewski, with decades of experience, traces his journey from early BBS and phone network exploration to becoming a cybersecurity expert. They delve into the evolution of hacking, the emergence of profitable cybercrime like email spam,…
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AI is becoming a core tool in cybercrime, Anthropic warns
A new report from Anthropic shows how criminals are using AI to actively run parts of their operations. The findings suggest that AI is now embedded across the full attack … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/27/anthropic-ai-powered-cybercrime/
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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived
Cybercriminals are increasingly using generative AI tools to fuel their attacks, with new research finding instances of AI being used to develop ransomware. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/the-era-of-ai-generated-ransomware-has-arrived/
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Oh, great. Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating
Tags: cybercrimeScattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/scattered_spidershinyhunterslapsus_cybercrime_collab/
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ShadowCaptcha Exploit: Massive WordPress Site Compromise Used to Execute Malicious Commands on Victims
A large-scale cybercrime conspiracy known as ShadowCaptcha was made public by cybersecurity researchers at Israel’s National Digital Agency. This campaign exploits the ClickFix technique, deploying deceptive CAPTCHA interfaces mimicking legitimate services like Cloudflare or Google to manipulate users into running malicious commands. The operation, traced through compromised WordPress websites, represents a sophisticated blend of social…
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ShadowCaptcha Exploit: Massive WordPress Site Compromise Used to Execute Malicious Commands on Victims
A large-scale cybercrime conspiracy known as ShadowCaptcha was made public by cybersecurity researchers at Israel’s National Digital Agency. This campaign exploits the ClickFix technique, deploying deceptive CAPTCHA interfaces mimicking legitimate services like Cloudflare or Google to manipulate users into running malicious commands. The operation, traced through compromised WordPress websites, represents a sophisticated blend of social…
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African Law Enforcement Agencies Nab Cybercrime Syndicates
African nations work with Interpol and private-sector partners to disrupt cybercriminal operations on the continent, but more work needs to be done. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/african-law-enforcement-agencies-nab-cybercrime-syndicates