Cybercrime
Operation Endgame: Europol takes down cybercrime network behind global malware outbreak
"Disrupting the front end of the ransomware kill chain has a ripple effect throughout the eCrime ecosystem."
Cybercrime
Opinion
How to stop ghost-brokering and other emerging threats from haunting financial services
"Institutions also face a perfect storm of challenges: mounting complexity, evolving compliance demands and the race to operationalise AI."
Security
"It's not a losing battle": CrowdStrike's optimistic view of a worsening threat landscape
"We can stop these threat actors - we just need the right tools, technology, and people behind the scenes to do it."
Cybercrime
"A new low!": Nursery hackers and the shocking evolution of amorality
Cybersecurity professionals horrified as threat actors publish pictures of innocent children and families' "sensitive" data.
Security
Jaguar Land Rover hit by cyber incident during peak season for UK car sales
"There is no evidence any customer data has been stolen but our retail and production activities have been severely disrupted."
Cybercrime
Anthropic shares the criminal confessions of Claude, warns of growing "vibe hacking" threat
Claude Code misuse is enabling low-skilled crooks to carry out high-impact fraud, extortion and romance scams.
Security
Workday CRM breach amplifies fears of an alliance between ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider
Cybercrime supergroup feared to be using sophisticated social engineering techniques in joint attacks against big-name victims.
Security
Dark web Initial Access Brokers are selling hacked network access for as little as $500, study reveals
Investigators find that crooks offer consumer-style hack'n'mix bundles that package access with privilege or other treats.
Cybercrime
The rise of Dark LLMs: DDoS-for-hire cybercriminals are using AI assistants to mastermind attacks
Lawbreaking language models lower the barrier of entry for unskilled crooks and make it frighteningly easy to launch crime campaigns.
Hacktivism
Europol leads global takedown of pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16)
Cops smash Moscow-linked group blamed for a number of DDoS attacks and believed to wield a huge botnet.
Dark Web
AntiDarkNet vigilante "annihilated" amid dark web drug user doxxing drama
Shadowy "United States of Dread" group seizes website of activist who claimed to have published the names of illegal marketplace customers.
Cybercrime
Large language models could cause a huge phishing crimewave, researchers warn
LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.