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Gen Z in the Crosshairs: Cybercriminals Shift Focus to Young, Digital-Savvy Workers

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Gen Z in the Crosshairs: Cybercriminals Shift Focus to Young, Digital-Savvy Workers 2025-08-01 at 19:35 By Kevin Townsend Should Gen Z to be treated as a separate attack surface within your company? The post Gen Z in the Crosshairs: Cybercriminals Shift Focus to Young, Digital-Savvy Workers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt […]

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Scattered Spider Activity Drops Following Arrests, but Others Adopting Group’s Tactics

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Scattered Spider Activity Drops Following Arrests, but Others Adopting Group’s Tactics 2025-07-30 at 16:32 By Ionut Arghire Multiple financially motivated threat actors are targeting backup systems and employing Scattered Spider’s social engineering techniques. The post Scattered Spider Activity Drops Following Arrests, but Others Adopting Group’s Tactics appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt […]

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Telecom Giant Orange Hit by Cyberattack

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Telecom Giant Orange Hit by Cyberattack 2025-07-30 at 15:54 By Eduard Kovacs Orange was targeted by hackers in an attack that resulted in the disruption of services offered to corporate and individual customers.  The post Telecom Giant Orange Hit by Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Minnesota Activates National Guard in Response to Cyberattack

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Minnesota Activates National Guard in Response to Cyberattack 2025-07-30 at 14:11 By Ionut Arghire Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called in the National Guard to assist the City of Saint Paul in responding to a cyberattack. The post Minnesota Activates National Guard in Response to Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from […]

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Ransomware will thrive until we change our strategy

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Ransomware will thrive until we change our strategy 2025-07-29 at 08:36 By Help Net Security We have reached a stage where ransomware isn’t simply a cybercrime issue: it is now clearly a business disruptor, a threat to societal trust, and increasingly, a national security crisis. As James Babbage, Director General (Threats) at the UK’s National […]

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Cyberattack On Russian Airline Aeroflot Causes the Cancellation of More Than 100 Flights

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Cyberattack On Russian Airline Aeroflot Causes the Cancellation of More Than 100 Flights 2025-07-29 at 04:48 By Associated Press Ukrainian and Belarusian hacker groups, which oppose the rule of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, claimed responsibility for the cyberattack. The post Cyberattack On Russian Airline Aeroflot Causes the Cancellation of More Than 100 Flights appeared first […]

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Scattered Spider Targeting VMware vSphere Environments

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Scattered Spider Targeting VMware vSphere Environments 2025-07-28 at 15:23 By Ionut Arghire The financially motivated group is pivoting from Active Directory to VMware vSphere environments, deploying ransomware from the hypervisor. The post Scattered Spider Targeting VMware vSphere Environments appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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UK Student Sentenced to Prison for Selling Phishing Kits

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UK Student Sentenced to Prison for Selling Phishing Kits 2025-07-25 at 16:19 By Ionut Arghire Ollie Holman was sentenced to prison for selling over 1,000 phishing kits that caused estimated losses of over $134 million. The post UK Student Sentenced to Prison for Selling Phishing Kits appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt […]

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Mastermind behind Russian-speaking cybercrime hub arrested in Ukraine

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Mastermind behind Russian-speaking cybercrime hub arrested in Ukraine 2025-07-23 at 17:34 By Sinisa Markovic The suspected administrator of xss.is, one of the world’s most influential Russian-speaking cybercrime forums, was arrested in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 22 July. The takedown followed a long-running investigation led by the French Police and Paris Prosecutor, in close cooperation with Ukrainian […]

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France Says Administrator of Cybercrime Forum XSS Arrested in Ukraine

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France Says Administrator of Cybercrime Forum XSS Arrested in Ukraine 2025-07-23 at 16:20 By Eduard Kovacs French authorities announced that an alleged admin of XSS.is, one of the longest-running cybercrime forums, has been arrested in Ukraine. The post France Says Administrator of Cybercrime Forum XSS Arrested in Ukraine appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is […]

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UK’s Ransomware Payment Ban: Bold Strategy or Dangerous Gamble?

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UK’s Ransomware Payment Ban: Bold Strategy or Dangerous Gamble? 2025-07-23 at 16:20 By Kevin Townsend Critics warn that a ban on ransomware payments may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, including forcing victims into secrecy or incentivizing attackers to shift tactics. The post UK’s Ransomware Payment Ban: Bold Strategy or Dangerous Gamble? appeared first on SecurityWeek. […]

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Phishing campaign targets U.S. Department of Education’s G5 portal

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Phishing campaign targets U.S. Department of Education’s G5 portal 2025-07-23 at 13:04 By Anamarija Pogorelec A new phishing campaign is targeting users of the U.S. Department of Education’s G5 portal, a site used by educational institutions and vendors to manage grants and federal education funding. Threat researchers at BforeAI uncovered a cluster of lookalike domains […]

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Fraud: A Growth Industry Powered by Gen-AI

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Fraud: A Growth Industry Powered by Gen-AI 2025-07-18 at 14:02 By Kevin Townsend With generative AI enabling fraud-as-a-service at scale, legacy defenses are crumbling. The next wave of cybercrime is faster, smarter, and terrifyingly synthetic. The post Fraud: A Growth Industry Powered by Gen-AI appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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Armenian Man Extradited to US Over Ryuk Ransomware Attacks

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Armenian Man Extradited to US Over Ryuk Ransomware Attacks 2025-07-17 at 16:20 By Eduard Kovacs Karen Serobovich Vardanyan pleaded not guilty to charges related to his alleged role in the Ryuk ransomware operation. The post Armenian Man Extradited to US Over Ryuk Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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Cambodia Makes 1,000 Arrests in Latest Crackdown on Cybercrime

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Cambodia Makes 1,000 Arrests in Latest Crackdown on Cybercrime 2025-07-17 at 05:47 By Associated Press More than 1,000 suspects were arrested in raids in at least five provinces between Monday and Wednesday, according to Information Minister Neth Pheaktra and police. The post Cambodia Makes 1,000 Arrests in Latest Crackdown on Cybercrime appeared first on SecurityWeek. […]

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Europol-Coordinated Global Operation Takes Down Pro-Russian Cybercrime Network

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Europol-Coordinated Global Operation Takes Down Pro-Russian Cybercrime Network 2025-07-16 at 20:54 By Associated Press Codenamed Eastwood, the operation targeted the so-called NoName057(16) group, which was identified as being behind a series of DDoS attacks on municipalities and organizations linked to a NATO summit. The post Europol-Coordinated Global Operation Takes Down Pro-Russian Cybercrime Network appeared first […]

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Global crackdown hits pro-Russian cybercrime, 100+ systems taken down worldwide

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Global crackdown hits pro-Russian cybercrime, 100+ systems taken down worldwide 2025-07-16 at 16:03 By Sinisa Markovic In a major blow to pro-Russian cybercrime, authorities across Europe and the United States launched a sweeping international crackdown on the hacking group NoName057(16) between 14 and 17 July. The coordinated operation, codenamed Eastwood and led by Europol and […]

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Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon Pleads Guilty

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Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon Pleads Guilty 2025-07-16 at 11:30 By Ionut Arghire Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to charges related to hacking into US telecommunications companies. The post Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon Pleads Guilty appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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AsyncRAT evolves as ESET tracks its most popular malware forks

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AsyncRAT evolves as ESET tracks its most popular malware forks 2025-07-15 at 12:50 By Sinisa Markovic AsyncRAT is an open-source remote access trojan that first appeared on GitHub in 2019. It includes a range of typical RAT capabilities, such as keylogging, screen capture, credential theft, and more. Its simplicity and open-source design have made it […]

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Thirteen Romanians Arrested for Phishing the UK’s Tax Service

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Thirteen Romanians Arrested for Phishing the UK’s Tax Service 2025-07-14 at 05:16 By Mike Lennon Investigators from HMRC joined more than 100 Romanian police officers to arrest the 13 Romanian suspects in the counties of Ilfov, Giurgiu and Calarasi.  The post Thirteen Romanians Arrested for Phishing the UK’s Tax Service appeared first on SecurityWeek. This […]

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