Tag: cybercrime
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Phishing-as-a-Service: Cybercrime im Abo
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Phishing-as-a-Service: Cybercrime im Abo
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/phishing-as-a-service-cybercrime-abo
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Phishing-as-a-Service Wenn Cyberkriminalität zum Abo-Modell wird
Mitte Juni hat das FBI im Rahmen der Operation Ghost-Hook gemeinsam mit Google und Black Lotus Labs die Plattform Outsider vom Netz genommen, einer der größten bislang bekannten Phishing-as-a-Service-Anbieter. Seit 2023 lieferte der Dienst Cyberkriminellen Phishing-Infrastruktur mit über 290 fertigen Vorlagen, die Banken, Behörden, Telekommunikationsanbieter und Einzelhändler imitierten. Die Ermittler nehmen an, dass seit der…
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Cybercriminals Target Turkish Banks With 8,400 Phishing Domains and 6,600 Scam Ads
Cybercriminals are operating an industrial-scale fraud ecosystem targeting Turkey’s financial sector, using more than 8,400 phishing domains, thousands of social media advertisements, fake loan offers, illicit gambling services, and money-mule recruitment to steal credentials. Group-IB’s investigation links these operations into five interconnected schemes targeting dozens of Turkish banking brands. Group-IB recorded more than 6,600 scam…
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U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors’ and other cybercriminals’ malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans.The VPN, named First VPN Service (1VPNS), has been accused of offering its tools to ransomware groups, along with its 45-year-old Ukrainian First…
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Turning the Tables on Email Scammers With ‘ScamBuster’
An open source, AI-driven system adopts victim personas to engage with phishing attackers, allowing organizations and law enforcement to gather relevant data on cybercriminal operations. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/turning-tables-email-scammers-scambuster
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When cybercriminals outrun the feed
Tags: cybercrimeHow can you defend against yesterday? First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/when-cybercriminals-outrun-the-feed/824053/
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When cybercriminals outrun the feed
Tags: cybercrimeHow can you defend against yesterday? First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/when-cybercriminals-outrun-the-feed/824053/
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Chinese-Funded Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown Leads to 5,800 Arrests
Operation First Light 2026, coordinated by Interpol and funded by the Chinese government, has led to 5,811 arrests First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/china-interpol-cybercrime-crackdown/
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Nike Alleged Breach: Threat Actors Claim Leak of Millions of Customer Records
A threat actor on a prominent cybercrime forum has claimed responsibility for leaking data allegedly belonging to Nike and Alcon, posting the purported datasets for download. The claims, currently unverified, suggest a significant breach affecting millions of records across both organizations. Nike Alleged Breach According to the forum post, the threat actor alleges the Nike-related…
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Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tool Repositories
Cybersecurity researchers at ESET identify big rise in suspicious and malicious toolsets which put users at risk from cyber-attacks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cybercriminals-plant-ai-agents/
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A Hacker Claims 35 GB of Accenture Source Code. The Company discloses the data breach
Accenture confirmed a breach after a hacker claimed to steal 35 GB of source code, keys, and Azure credentials now offered for sale. A threat actor using the handle >>888<>Today […] First seen on securityaffairs.com Jump to article: securityaffairs.com/194962/data-breach/a-hacker-claims-35-gb-of-accenture-source-code-the-company-discloses-the-data-breach.html
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Accenture Data Breach Exposes 35GB Source Code and Azure DevOps Credentials
Accenture is currently investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor using the alias “888” claimed to be selling approximately 35GB of stolen data, including source code and sensitive credentials, on a cybercrime forum. This listing, posted on July 6, 2026, alleges that the breach resulted in the exfiltration of proprietary assets, including source…
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Scattered Spider’s Structure More Like a Cybercrime Collective Than a Unified Gang
Group-IB analysis argued Scattered Spider is a decentralized collective of independent clusters First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/scattered-spider-as-cybercrime/
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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials, meaning it wasn’t quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week’s headlines suggested. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump…
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Vect and TeamPCP Cybercrime Groups Link for Ransomware Hits
Supply-Chain Victims Also at Risk From Poorly Coded, Data-Shredding Crypto-Locker. Recently announced tie-ups between ransomware group Vect, supply-chain attack specialists TeamPCP and data-leak stalwart Lapsus$ show cybercriminals continuing their quest to monetize their attacks and develop new profit streams. But not all has been smooth sailing. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/vect-teampcp-cybercrime-groups-link-for-ransomware-hits-a-32159
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FBI Disrupts Widely Used NetNut Residential Proxy Service
2 Million Home Devices, Including Routers and Smart TVs, Tied to NetNut Botnet. The FBI and private-sector partners have disrupted NetNut, one of the world’s biggest and most popular residential proxy networks. Google researchers said it comprised 2 million secretly hijacked home devices and was often used to route and disguise cybercrime and cyberespionage activity.…
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Qilin Dominates Ransomware Market Amid Growing Cybercrime Consolidation
The ransomware landscape is reconsolidating around major players, with Qilin emerging as the leading RaaS operation, researchers say First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/qilin-dominates-ransomware-market/
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FBI Says TeamPCP Uses Trojanized Updates to Steal Cloud Tokens, SSH Keys, and Kubernetes Secrets
Tags: access, advisory, attack, cloud, cyber, cybercrime, exploit, group, kubernetes, software, supply-chain, updateThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an urgent FLASH advisory warning that the cybercriminal group TeamPCP is weaponizing trojanized software updates to harvest cloud access tokens, SSH keys, and Kubernetes secrets at scale. This campaign represents one of the most sophisticated software supply chain attacks observed in 2026, exploiting trust in widely deployed…
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Aussies Face Reduced Cybercrime Risk, as Pressure Shifts to SMBs
Improved institutional safeguards and stricter regulations have pushed the burdens of protection and risk reduction on to Australian businesses. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-analytics/aussies-face-reduced-cybercrime-risk-pressure-shifts-smbs
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This Threat Hunter Helped Cops Bust Up An African Cybercrime Syndicate
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 15: Interpol relied on Will Thomas and his team at Team Cymru to help break up a sprawling cybercrime ring, leading to the arrest of 574 suspects, the recovery of more than $3 million, and the decryption of six malware variants. Here’s his story. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article:…
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Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited From Finland to US
FBI Says Peter Stokes, 19, ‘Exhibited Substantial Wealth for a Person of His Age’. A suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group has been extradited from Finland to stand trial in the United States. Peter Stokes, 19, a dual U.S.-Estonian citizen, faces a six-count indictment, including an attempted $8 million shakedown of a…
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Cybercriminals Pose as Interpol in Phishing Emails to Infect Victims With Ransomware
Bitdefender researchers warned of curious ransomware campaign which has targeted businesses around the world First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cybercriminals-pose-interpol/
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Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to U.S. to Face Cybercrime Charges
Alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes, 19, was extradited from Finland to the U.S. over hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Peter Stokes, 19, an alleged Scattered Spider member known online as >>Bouquet,<< has been extradited from Finland to the U.S. to face hacking, fraud, and extortion charges. Prosecutors say he took part in multiple cyberattacks,…
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Scattered Spider Hacker Arrested in Finland and Extradited to U.S. Over Cyber Intrusion Charges
U.S. authorities have announced federal charges against an alleged member of the notorious cybercriminal group Scattered Spider, following his arrest in Finland and extradition to the United States. The defendant, identified as 19-year-old Peter Stokes, a dual national of the U.S. and Estonia, is accused of participating in a widespread conspiracy involving cyber intrusions and…
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MeetingTV Sues Palo Alto Networks Over Koi Threat Report
Tags: ai, china, cybercrime, cybersecurity, infrastructure, intelligence, malware, network, threat, toolMeetingTV Says Koi’s AI Analysis Tool Wrongly Tied it to Malware Infrastructure. MeetingTV alleges an AI-assisted threat intelligence report published by Koi Security falsely linked its infrastructure to a Chinese cybercrime operation, while Koi parent Palo Alto Networks argues the report reflects protected cybersecurity analysis rather than actionable false statements. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Browser-Only Ransomware: From LLM Hallucinations to a Practical Attack Technique
Tags: ai, attack, chatgpt, cybercrime, LLM, malicious, malware, programming, ransomware, software, toolesearch by:Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways Introduction Over the past several years, large language models have reshaped software development, and malware development has followed the same path. Check Point Research has documented this trend from early experiments showing that AI systems could generate offensive components, to cases of cybercriminals using ChatGPT to create malicious tools, and…
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XSS.is, The Forum That Ran the Ransomware Supply Chain Is Down. The Market Isn’t
Police arrested the alleged admin of XSS.is, a major cybercrime forum whose trusted escrow service helped power the underground economy. On 22 July 2025, French and Ukrainian police arrested a 38-year-old man in Kyiv and shut down XSS.is, the most influential Russian-language cybercrime forum of the past decade. Europol, which coordinated the operation under the…
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AI-Driven Identity Attacks Are Surging, PwC Warns
AI has given cybercriminals a big advantage in attacking organizations, which they are using to go after weaknesses on edge devices The post AI-Driven Identity Attacks Are Surging, PwC Warns appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-pwc-ai-identity-edge-device-cyber-threats/
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Ukraine to use seized crypto from cybercrime group to buy war bonds
Ukraine’s Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA), which manages property seized in criminal proceedings, said more than $8.3 million in cryptocurrency had been transferred to its official digital wallet following a court order. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-uses-seized-crypto-cybercrime-for-war-bonds