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Europol Dismantles $540 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Network, Arrests Five Suspects
Europol on Monday announced the takedown of a cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that laundered €460 million ($540 million) from more than 5,000 victims across the world. The operation, the agency said, was carried out by the Spanish Guardia Civil,...
2025-06-30 20:47
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Blind Eagle Uses Proton66 Hosting for Phishing, RAT Deployment on Colombian Banks
The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been attributed with high confidence to the use of the Russian bulletproof hosting service Proton66. Trustwave SpiderLabs, in a report published last week, said it was able to make this connection by pivoting f...
2025-06-30 19:00
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Leveraging Credentials As Unique Identifiers: A Pragmatic Approach To NHI Inventories 
Identity-based attacks are on the rise. Attacks in which malicious actors assume the identity of an entity to easily gain access to resources and sensitive data have been increasing in number and frequency over the last few years. Some recent reports e...
2025-06-30 16:30
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Airline Hacks, Citrix 0-Day, Outlook Malware, Banking Trojans and more
Ever wonder what happens when attackers don’t break the rules—they just follow them better than we do? When systems work exactly as they’re built to, but that “by design” behavior quietly opens the door to risk? This week brings stories that ...
2025-06-30 15:46
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FBI Warns of Scattered Spider's Expanding Attacks on Airlines Using Social Engineering
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that it has observed the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider broadening its targeting footprint to strike the airline sector. To that end, the agency said it's actively working with av...
2025-06-28 15:18
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GIFTEDCROOK Malware Evolves: From Browser Stealer to Intelligence-Gathering Tool
The threat actor behind the GIFTEDCROOK malware has made significant updates to turn the malicious program from a basic browser data stealer to a potent intelligence-gathering tool. "Recent campaigns in June 2025 demonstrate GIFTEDCROOK's enhanced abil...
2025-06-28 13:28
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Facebook’s New AI Tool Asks to Upload Your Photos for Story Ideas, Sparking Privacy Concerns
Facebook, the social network platform owned by Meta, is asking for users to upload pictures from their phones to suggest collages, recaps, and other ideas using artificial intelligence (AI), including those that have not been directly uploaded to the s...
2025-06-28 12:49
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Over 1,000 SOHO Devices Hacked in China-linked LapDogs Cyber Espionage Campaign
Threat hunters have discovered a network of more than 1,000 compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices that have been used to facilitate a prolonged cyber espionage infrastructure campaign for China-nexus hacking groups. The Operational Re...
2025-06-27 21:28
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PUBLOAD and Pubshell Malware Used in Mustang Panda's Tibet-Specific Attack
A China-linked threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been attributed to a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the Tibetan community. The spear-phishing attacks leveraged topics related to Tibet, such as the 9th World Parliamentarians' Conve...
2025-06-27 18:55
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Business Case for Agentic AI SOC Analysts
Security operations centers (SOCs) are under pressure from both sides: threats are growing more complex and frequent, while security budgets are no longer keeping pace. Today’s security leaders are expected to reduce risk and deliver results without ...
2025-06-27 16:30
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Chinese Group Silver Fox Uses Fake Websites to Deliver Sainbox RAT and Hidden Rootkit
A new campaign has been observed leveraging fake websites advertising popular software such as WPS Office, Sogou, and DeepSeek to deliver Sainbox RAT and the open-source Hidden rootkit. The activity has been attributed with medium confidence to a Chine...
2025-06-27 15:55
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MOVEit Transfer Faces Increased Threats as Scanning Surges and CVE Flaws Are Targeted
Threat intelligence firm GreyNoise is warning of a "notable surge" in scanning activity targeting Progress MOVEit Transfer systems starting May 27, 2025—suggesting that attackers may be preparing for another mass exploitation campaign or probing for ...
2025-06-27 13:13
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OneClik Malware Targets Energy Sector Using Microsoft ClickOnce and Golang Backdoors
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign dubbed OneClik that leverages Microsoft's ClickOnce software deployment technology and bespoke Golang backdoors to compromise organizations within the energy, oil, and gas sectors. "The campaign ex...
2025-06-27 12:01
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OneClik Red Team Campaign Targets Energy Sector Using Microsoft ClickOnce and Golang Backdoors
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign dubbed OneClik that leverages Microsoft's ClickOnce software deployment technology and bespoke Golang backdoors to compromise organizations within the energy, oil, and gas sectors. "The campaign ex...
2025-06-27 12:01
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Critical Open VSX Registry Flaw Exposes Millions of Developers to Supply Chain Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in the Open VSX Registry ("open-vsx[.]org") that, if successfully exploited, could have enabled attackers to take control of the entire Visual Studio Code extensions marketplace, posing ...
2025-06-26 22:16
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Critical RCE Flaws in Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC Allow Unauthenticated Attackers to Gain Root Access
Cisco has released updates to address two maximum-severity security flaws in Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could permit an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. The v...
2025-06-26 18:54
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New FileFix Method Emerges as a Threat Following 517% Rise in ClickFix Attacks
The ClickFix social engineering tactic as an initial access vector using fake CAPTCHA verifications increased by 517% between the second half of 2024 and the first half of this year, according to data from ESET. "The list of threats that ClickFix attac...
2025-06-26 18:33
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The Hidden Risks of SaaS: Why Built-In Protections Aren't Enough for Modern Data Resilience
SaaS Adoption is Skyrocketing, Resilience Hasn’t Kept Pace SaaS platforms have revolutionized how businesses operate. They simplify collaboration, accelerate deployment, and reduce the overhead of managing infrastructure. But with their rise comes a ...
2025-06-26 16:30
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Iranian APT35 Hackers Targeting Israeli Tech Experts with AI-Powered Phishing Attacks
An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists, high-profile cyber security experts, and computer science professors in Israel. "I...
2025-06-26 14:15
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Cyber Criminals Exploit Open-Source Tools to Compromise Financial Institutions Across Africa
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa since at least July 2023 using a mix of open-source and publicly available tools to maintain access. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42...
2025-06-26 12:49
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