Cyber Attacks

Hackers Spied on a Stock Exchange Executive’s Outlook Mailbox for Five Months

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Unknown attackers maintained long-term access to the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange for at least five months, quietly exfiltrating data in small batches via Dropbox and OneDrive to blend in with normal cloud traffic. According to Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team (Carbon Black), the activity strongly suggests espionage rather […]

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Phishing Campaign Uses LinkedIn Messages to Deliver Malware

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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a phishing campaign that uses private messages on social media platforms, particularly LinkedIn, to distribute malicious files likely intended to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT). According to ReliaQuest, the attack targets high-value individuals by initiating direct messages on LinkedIn, building trust, and then persuading victims to download a malicious WinRAR

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LastPass Warns of Active Phishing Campaign Targeting Users

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LastPass has warned users about an active phishing campaign impersonating the company in an attempt to steal master passwords. First observed around 19 January 2026, the campaign uses emails claiming urgent infrastructure maintenance and pressures recipients to back up their password vaults within 24 hours. The sense of urgency is designed to trick users into

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Operation SIMCARTEL: Inside the Network Behind 49 Million Fake Accounts

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Europol has announced a major crackdown on a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) operation that ran a large-scale SIM farm, providing tools for a wide range of criminal activities, from phishing scams to investment fraud. The operation, called Operation SIMCARTEL, involved 26 coordinated raids, resulting in seven arrests and the seizure of 1,200 SIM box devices containing

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Pro-Iranian Hackers Leak Saudi Games Records

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A pro-Iranian hacktivist group known as Cyber Fattah has reportedly leaked thousands of personal records connected to athletes and visitors of the Saudi Games. The cybersecurity firm Resecurity revealed that the breach was announced on Telegram on June 22, 2025, via SQL database dumps, describing it as part of a coordinated information campaign “orchestrated by

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How North Korea Hacked ByBit Crypto Worth $1.5 Billion

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Safe{Wallet} has revealed that the $1.5 billion Bybit cryptocurrency theft was a highly sophisticated, state-sponsored attack, allegedly carried out by North Korean cybercriminals. The hacking group, known as TraderTraitor (also called Jade Sleet, PUKCHONG, and UNC4899), reportedly took extensive measures to erase evidence and hinder investigations. To investigate the breach, Safe{Wallet} enlisted Google Cloud Mandiant,

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Six Governments Likely Using Isreali Spyware to Hack Whatsapp

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A recent investigation by The Citizen Lab has identified the governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore as potential users of Graphite, a powerful spyware developed by Israeli company Paragon Solutions. Paragon, founded in 2019 by Ehud Barak and Ehud Schneorson, created Graphite to extract sensitive data from messaging apps. Researchers linked the

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Russian Airstrikes Recruit Ukrainian Children for Cyber Operations and Reconnaissance

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The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU or SSU) has revealed a new spying operation that is believed to be carried out by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and entails enlisting Ukrainian children for illegal purposes under the pretence of “quest games.” According to law enforcement officials, it arrested two groups of FSB agents after conducting a

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Nigerian National Extradited to the U.S. for BEC Scheme

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Abiola Kayode, 37, of Nigeria, was extradited by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to face charges for allegedly taking part in a business email compromise (BEC) operation that defrauded companies out of over $6 million between January 2015 and September 2016. “Kayode’s co-conspirators posed as the chief executive officer, president, owner, or other executive of

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Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries

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Researchers studying cybersecurity have uncovered a new type of botnet malware known as Gorilla (also known as GorillaBot), which takes its cues from the publicly available source code for the Mirai botnet. According to the cybersecurity company NSFOCUS, which discovered the activities last month, between September 4 and September 27, 2024, the botnet “issued over

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