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Agentic AI coding assistant helped attacker breach, extort 17 distinct organizations

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Agentic AI coding assistant helped attacker breach, extort 17 distinct organizations 2025-08-28 at 15:29 By Zeljka Zorz Cybercriminals have started “vibe hacking” with AI’s help, AI startup Anthropic has shared in a report released on Wednesday. An attacker used the agentic AI coding assistant Claude Code for nearly all steps of a data extortion operation […]

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Cybercriminals are getting personal, and it’s working

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Cybercriminals are getting personal, and it’s working 2025-08-07 at 09:15 By Help Net Security Cybercriminals are deploying unidentifiable phishing kits (58% of phishing sites) to propagate malicious campaigns at scale, indicating a trend towards custom-made or obfuscated deployments, according to VIPRE Security. These phishing kits can’t easily be reverse-engineered, tracked, or caught. AI makes them

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Why stolen credentials remain cybercriminals’ tool of choice

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Why stolen credentials remain cybercriminals’ tool of choice 2025-07-31 at 09:26 By Help Net Security It’s often the case that the simplest tools have the longest staying power, because they ultimately get the job done. Take duct tape, for example: it’s a sturdy household classic that wasn’t invented to be elegant or high tech. It

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Money mule networks evolve into hierarchical, business-like criminal enterprises

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Money mule networks evolve into hierarchical, business-like criminal enterprises 2025-06-27 at 09:12 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Michal Tresner, CEO of ThreatMark, discusses how cybercriminals are weaponizing AI, automation, and social engineering to industrialize money mule operations. He looks at how these networks have changed and how behavioral intelligence is helping

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LockBit panel data leak shows Chinese orgs among the most targeted

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LockBit panel data leak shows Chinese orgs among the most targeted 2025-06-12 at 17:17 By Zeljka Zorz The LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has netted around $2.3 million USD within 5 months, the data leak stemming from the May 2025 hack of a LockBit affiliate panel has revealed. From that sum, the operators took their 20%

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How global collaboration is hitting cybercriminals where it hurts

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How global collaboration is hitting cybercriminals where it hurts 2025-06-03 at 09:03 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, William Lyne, Deputy Director of UK’s National Crime Agency, discusses the cybercrime ecosystem and the threats it enables. He explains how cybercrime is becoming more accessible and fragmented. Lyne also talks about key trends,

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How cybercriminals are exploiting digital twins to scam crypto users

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How cybercriminals are exploiting digital twins to scam crypto users 2025-05-05 at 12:03 By Cointelegraph by SK Arora What is a digital twin? A digital twin is a virtual model or replica of a physical object, system or process. It’s like a digital mirror, allowing us to simulate, monitor and predict the behavior of real-world

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When confusion becomes a weapon: How cybercriminals exploit economic turmoil

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When confusion becomes a weapon: How cybercriminals exploit economic turmoil 2025-04-23 at 09:02 By Help Net Security It begins with a simple notification: “Markets in Free Fall.” Within moments, the headlines multiply: new tariffs, emergency actions, plummeting consumer confidence. Across boardrooms and break rooms, anxiety ripples at every level. People begin refreshing inboxes and apps

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Inside PlugValley: How this AI vishing-as-a-service group operates

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Inside PlugValley: How this AI vishing-as-a-service group operates 2025-04-17 at 07:41 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Alexis Ober, Threat Intel Analyst at Fortra, discusses the threat actor group PlugValley, which is now offering AI-powered vishing-as-a-service. Rather than requiring technical skills or large budgets, PlugValley’s service lets any cybercriminal launch vishing

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Cybercriminal groups embrace corporate structures to scale, sustain operations

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Cybercriminal groups embrace corporate structures to scale, sustain operations 2025-04-15 at 08:33 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Sandy Kronenberg, CEO of Netarx, discusses how cybercriminal groups are adopting corporate structures and employee incentives to scale operations, retain talent, and evade detection. He covers the strategic collaborations behind major attacks, business-like parallels,

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Scammers take over social media

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Scammers take over social media 2025-03-05 at 07:02 By Help Net Security In Q4 2024, cyber threats reached unprecedented levels, with 2.55 billion attacks blocked, equating to 321 threats every second. In this Help Net Security video, Luis Corrons, Security Evangelist at Gen, discusses a new Gen report that highlights a troubling trend: social media

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Two Estonians plead guilty in $577M cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme

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Two Estonians plead guilty in $577M cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme 2025-02-17 at 13:48 By Zeljka Zorz Two Estonian nationals may spend the next 20 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars through a massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, the US Department of Justice announced last week. The fraudulent operation “According to court documents, Sergei

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8Base ransomware group leaders arrested, leak site seized

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8Base ransomware group leaders arrested, leak site seized 2025-02-11 at 15:31 By Zeljka Zorz The Thai police has arrested four individuals suspected of being the leaders of the 8Base ransomware group and of stealing approximately $16 million from 1,000+ victims they targeted with the Phobos ransomware. “Officers from Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, led by Police

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Cybercrime gang exploited VeraCore zero-day vulnerabilities for years (CVE-2025-25181, CVE-2024-57968)

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Cybercrime gang exploited VeraCore zero-day vulnerabilities for years (CVE-2025-25181, CVE-2024-57968) 2025-02-05 at 18:49 By Zeljka Zorz XE Group, a cybercriminal outfit that has been active for over a decade, has been quietly exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-25181, CVE-2024-57968) in VeraCore software, a popular solution for warehouse management and order fulfillment. According to Intezer and Solis Security

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Defense strategies to counter escalating hybrid attacks

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Defense strategies to counter escalating hybrid attacks 2025-01-23 at 07:33 By Zeljka Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Tomer Shloman, Sr. Security Researcher at Trellix, talks about attack attribution, outlines solutions for recognizing hybrid threats, and offers advice on how organizations can protect themselves against hybrid attacks. What are the most promising technologies or

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Configuration files for 15,000 Fortinet firewalls leaked. Are yours among them?

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Configuration files for 15,000 Fortinet firewalls leaked. Are yours among them? 2025-01-16 at 13:03 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor has leaked configuration files (aka configs) for over 15,000 Fortinet Fortigate firewalls and associated admin and user credentials. The collection has been leaked on Monday and publicized on an underground forum by the threat actor

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Cybersecurity in 2025: Global conflict, grown-up AI, and the wisdom of the crowd

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Cybersecurity in 2025: Global conflict, grown-up AI, and the wisdom of the crowd 2025-01-09 at 06:59 By Help Net Security As we look ahead to cybersecurity developments in 2025, there’s bad news and good—expect to see new challenging attacks and the cybersecurity community increasingly working together to counter threats that are beyond the scope of

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The sixth sense of cybersecurity: How AI spots threats before they strike

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The sixth sense of cybersecurity: How AI spots threats before they strike 2024-12-30 at 07:47 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Vineet Chaku, President of Reaktr.ai, discusses how AI is transforming cybersecurity, particularly in anomaly detection and threat identification. Chaku talks about the skills cybersecurity professionals need to collaborate with AI systems

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China Accuses the U.S. of Hacking Back as Cyber Conflict Grows 

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China Accuses the U.S. of Hacking Back as Cyber Conflict Grows  2024-12-27 at 11:18 By Ashish Khaitan Overview U.S. national security and cybersecurity agencies have leveled cyber espionage accusations against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for much of 2024, accusing the PRC of infiltrating U.S. critical infrastructure and telecom networks – possibly in preparation

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How CISOs can make smarter risk decisions

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How CISOs can make smarter risk decisions 2024-12-24 at 07:03 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Gavin Reid, CISO at HUMAN Security, talks about the latest cybersecurity threats and how attackers are becoming more sophisticated. He explains the difficulties organizations encounter in detecting fraud and malicious bots while keeping the user experience

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