Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2025
Malicious NPM packages target PayPal users

Threat actors deploy malicious NPM packages to steal PayPal credentials and hijack cryptocurrency transfers. Fortinet researchers discovered multiple malicious NPM packages that are used to target PayPal users. The packages were uploaded to the repository in early March by a threat actor known as tommyboy_h1 and tommyboy_h2, and were used to steal PayPal credentials and hijack cryptocurrency transfers. “Using PayPal-related […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2025
Tycoon2FA phishing kit rolled out significant updates

The operators of the Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform Tycoon2FA have rolled out significant updates to enhance its evasion capabilities. Tycoon2FA, a phishing kit discovered in 2023 by cybersecurity firm Sekoia, was recently updated to improve its evasion capabilities. The phishing kit now uses advanced evasion tactics such as a custom CAPTCHA via HTML5 canvas, invisible Unicode […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2025
South African telecom provider Cell C disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack

Cell C, one of the biggest telecom providers in South Africa confirms a data breach following a 2024 cyberattack. Cell C is the fourth-largest mobile network operator in South Africa, ,after Vodacom, MTN, and Telkom. The company founded in 2001 offers prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, data bundles and internet services, fiber broadband, roaming and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2025
Laboratory Services Cooperative data breach impacts 1.6 Million People

Laboratory Services Cooperative discloses a data breach from October 2024 that exposed personal and medical info of 1.6 million individuals. Laboratory Services Cooperative disclosed a data breach that impacted the personal and medical information of 1.6 million people. The Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) is a clinical laboratory based in Bremerton, Washington, providing diagnostic testing services […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2025
AkiraBot: AI-Powered spam bot evades CAPTCHA to target 80,000+ websites

AkiraBot, a CAPTCHA-evading Python framework, has spammed over 80,000 websites with AI-generated messages, targeting small and medium-sized businesses. SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs researchers warn that AkiraBot, a spam framework, targets websites’ chats and contact forms to promote low-quality SEO services, AkiraBot has already targeted more than 400,000 websites and successfully spammed at least 80,000 websites since September […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2025
Oracle confirms the hack of two obsolete servers hacked. No Oracle Cloud systems or customer data were affected

Oracle confirmed a hacker stole credentials from two obsolete servers but said no Oracle Cloud systems or customer data were affected. Oracle confirmed a hacker stole and leaked credentials from two obsolete servers, but said no Oracle Cloud systems or customer data were affected. The threat actor accessed usernames from two outdated, non-Oracle Cloud Infrastructure […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2025
National Social Security Fund of Morocco Suffers Data Breach

Threat actor ‘Jabaroot’ claims breach of National Social Security Fund of Morocco, aiming to steal large volumes of sensitive citizen data. Resecurity has identified a threat actor targeting government systems in Morocco with the goal of exfiltrating large volumes of sensitive data relating to citizens. The actor using the alias ‘Jabaroot’ released claims about the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2025
Everest ransomware group’s Tor leak site offline after a defacement

The Tor leak site of the Everest ransomware group went offline after being hacked and defaced over the weekend. The Everest ransomware gang’s darknet site went offline after being hacked and defaced, with victim listings replaced by the following message. “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague” read the message published on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2025
A member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group pleads guilty

A 20-year-old man linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group has pleaded guilty to charges filed in Florida and California. Noah Urban, a 20-year-old from Palm Coast, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud, and identity theft in two federal cases, one in Florida and another in California. “In the California case, he pleaded guilty to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2025
The controversial case of the threat actor EncryptHub

Microsoft credited controversial actor EncryptHub, a lone actor with ties to cybercrime, for reporting two Windows flaws. Microsoft credited the likely lone actor behind the EncryptHub alias (also known as SkorikARI) for reporting two Windows security flaws, highlighting a “conflicted” figure balancing ethical cybersecurity work with cybercriminal activity. Outpost24 KrakenLabs published a detailed analysis of […]

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