Cybercriminals

Arizona lawmaker David Schweikert introduced “The Scam Farms Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025” in August, which proposes neo-privateers — state-sanctioned pirates — to combat cybercriminals engaged in threats …

Aug 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananOnline Fraud / Financial Crime INTERPOL on Friday announced that authorities from 18 countries across Africa have arrested 1,209 cybercriminals who targeted 88,000 victims. “The crackdown recovered …

Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cryptocurrency Threat actors have been observed leveraging the deceptive social engineering tactic known as ClickFix to deploy a versatile backdoor codenamed CORNFLAKE.V3. Google-owned Mandiant described …

An Iranian-backed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) named Pay2Key has resurfaced in the wake of the Israel-Iran-U.S. conflict last month, offering bigger payouts to cybercriminals who launch attacks against Israel and the U.S. …

Jul 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider Aeza …

Empty grocery store shelves and grounded planes tend to signal a crisis, whether it’s an extreme weather event, public health crisis, or geopolitical emergency. But these scenes of chaos in …

Jul 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Phishing Unknown threat actors have been observed weaponizing v0, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from Vercel, to design fake sign-in pages that impersonate …

“I am always a big proponent of automation in those security systems as a first line of defense, particularly if it’s not going to be an overly damaging action,” Immler …

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned Americans of cybercriminals impersonating health fraud investigators to steal their sensitive information. As the federal law enforcement agency cautioned in a Friday …

“This trend is particularly concerning because it demonstrates adversaries ‘closing the loop on model tuning’ — their offensive capabilities constantly improving over time through real-time feedback and illicit data,” Ian …