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Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions

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Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions 2026-08-07 at 14:06 By Ionut Arghire Initially calling itself BlackFile, the group has expanded operations to the Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon brands. The post Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison

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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison 2026-08-06 at 15:30 By Sinisa Markovic A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley Moucka, also known as “Waifu” and “Judische,” 26, of Kitchener, Ontario,

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Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison

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Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison 2026-08-06 at 12:30 By Ionut Arghire Maksim Silnikau was the creator and administrator of the ransomware group and involved in Angler EK’s distribution. The post Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime

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INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime 2026-08-05 at 15:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec Africa’s growing digital economy is exposing governments, businesses and internet users to a rising wave of cybercrime. The continent recorded more than 1.1 billion mobile subscriptions and over $1.1 trillion in digital transactions in 2025, while more than 570

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What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how

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What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how 2026-08-05 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The

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Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Accounts

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Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Accounts 2026-08-04 at 16:54 By Kevin Townsend Researchers demonstrate how attackers could abuse built-in email chatbots to evade detection, impersonate trusted employees, compromise executive accounts, and facilitate financial fraud. The post Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams

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OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams 2026-08-03 at 11:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam compounds and human trafficking operations. The network used the company’s models to create and manage fake

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Cybercrime goes subscription: AI, malware and infrastructure on demand

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Cybercrime goes subscription: AI, malware and infrastructure on demand 2026-07-31 at 16:55 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cybercrime has become a commercialized ecosystem where criminals can buy or rent nearly every capability needed to launch sophisticated attacks. These services provide anonymity, plausible deniability, and access to short-lived infrastructure that is difficult to detect, attribute, and disrupt, enabling

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Criminals used AI and children’s coding software to build a multimillion-dollar ad fraud empire

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Criminals used AI and children’s coding software to build a multimillion-dollar ad fraud empire 2026-07-31 at 15:19 By Sinisa Markovic A security investigation into inexpensive Android TV boxes led researchers to an ad fraud operation that had remained unnoticed for several years. Fuyao apps ecosystem (Source: Bitsight) According to Bitsight, the operation, named Fuyao, uses

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Attackers are using Microsoft’s legitimate login system to camouflage phishing attacks

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Attackers are using Microsoft’s legitimate login system to camouflage phishing attacks 2026-07-30 at 14:22 By Sinisa Markovic Attackers are moving away from fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s own authentication system, letting phishing campaigns slip past the warning signs employees are trained to spot, according to Check Point. Between June 25 and

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Coca-Cola confirms hackers stole data in Fairlife ransomware attack

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Coca-Cola confirms hackers stole data in Fairlife ransomware attack 2026-07-28 at 12:01 By Sinisa Markovic Coca-Cola has confirmed that the ransomware attack on its dairy subsidiary Fairlife involved the theft of company data, weeks after the incident temporarily halted production at its US facilities. Fairlife is a Coca-Cola-owned dairy brand that makes ultra-filtered milk and

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Call of Duty Mobile scam uses fake free points giveaway to hijack players’ accounts

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Call of Duty Mobile scam uses fake free points giveaway to hijack players’ accounts 2026-07-28 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Call of Duty Mobile players should watch out for a phishing campaign disguised as a free Call of Duty Points giveaway, Malwarebytes researchers have warned. Victims are asked to log in with their email address

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How attackers hosted a fake Claude download page on the claude.ai domain

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How attackers hosted a fake Claude download page on the claude.ai domain 2026-07-23 at 16:12 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor abused Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts feature to funnel users toward malware, Huntress researchers have disclosed. Employees at at least 29 organizations were compromised over two days in July, after searching for the Claude desktop app

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US seizes over 1,000 domains used for illegal World Cup 2026 streams

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US seizes over 1,000 domains used for illegal World Cup 2026 streams 2026-07-22 at 13:51 By Sinisa Markovic The US Department of Justice has seized more than 1,000 internet domains that streamed FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without a license. The domain seizure notice (Source: US Department of Justice) The seizures came in three waves

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Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform behind 15,000 monthly campaigns

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Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform behind 15,000 monthly campaigns 2026-07-22 at 11:02 By Sinisa Markovic German and US law enforcement have dismantled the infrastructure behind Kratos, a notorious phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. Its alleged developer and administrator was arrested in Indonesia by local police. Seizure banner (Source: BKA) The takedown was led by the Frankfurt public

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The Odyssey piracy scams surface hours after its theatrical debut

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The Odyssey piracy scams surface hours after its theatrical debut 2026-07-20 at 21:59 By Sinisa Markovic Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey had barely reached theaters before scammers began targeting people searching for pirated copies, according to Malwarebytes. Within hours of the film’s release, researchers found two separate scams running on cloned piracy sites: fake browser warnings

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Paidwork breach exposes sensitive data of 23 million user

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Paidwork breach exposes sensitive data of 23 million user 2026-07-20 at 17:52 By Sinisa Markovic Data belonging to more than 23 million users has been exposed following a breach at Paidwork, a platform that pays people for completing online microtasks. Paidwork markets itself as a way to earn money through simple tasks like watching ads,

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Spirals ransomware locks down victim systems in under 24 hours

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Spirals ransomware locks down victim systems in under 24 hours 2026-07-17 at 15:25 By Sinisa Markovic A previously unknown ransomware strain called Spirals was used last month in an attack against an IT services company in South Asia, where attackers went from initial access to data theft and encrypting the network in less than 24

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Scammers weaponize FaceTime to drain bank accounts

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Scammers weaponize FaceTime to drain bank accounts 2026-07-17 at 13:02 By Sinisa Markovic Apple is warning iPhone and iPad users that scammers are using FaceTime calls to trick them into handing over money and account details. The company says scammers use social engineering, posing as representatives of a trusted company or entity, and contacting people

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