A malicious campaign dubbed ‘GreedyBear’ has snuck onto the Mozilla add-ons store, targeting Firefox users with 150 malicious extensions and stealing an estimated $1,000,000 from unsuspecting victims. […]
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Cryptomixer founders pled guilty to laundering money for cybercriminals
The founders of the Samourai Wallet (Samourai) cryptocurrency mixer have pleaded guilty to laundering over $200 million for criminals. […]
Massive IPTV piracy service with 28,000 channels taken offline
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced the shutdown of Rare Breed TV, a major illegal IPTV service provider, after reaching a financial settlement with its operators. […]
Air France and KLM disclose data breaches impacting customers
Air France and KLM announced on Wednesday that attackers had breached a customer service platform and stolen the data of an undisclosed number of customers. […]
Microsoft warns of high-severity flaw in hybrid Exchange deployments
Microsoft has warned customers to mitigate a high-severity vulnerability in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate their privileges in Exchange Online cloud environments without leaving any traces. […]
Microsoft accidentally confirms GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5-Nano ahead of launch
OpenAI is hosting a live stream at 10AM PT to announce GPT-5, but Microsoft has already confirmed the details. […]
Akira ransomware abuses CPU tuning tool to disable Microsoft Defender
Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security tools and EDRs running on target machines. […]
New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations
A new post-exploitation command-and-control (C2) evasion method called ‘Ghost Calls’ abuses TURN servers used by conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to tunnel traffic through trusted infrastructure. […]
Hacker extradited to US for stealing $3.3 million from taxpayers
Nigerian national Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu has been extradited from France to the U.S. to face charges of hacking, fraud, and identity theft for suspected spearphishing attacks on U.S. tax preparation businesses. […]
MFA matters… But it isn’t enough on its own
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