British investigators have charged 19-year-old East London resident Talha Jubair, alleged to be linked with the Scattered Spider group. According to police and prosecutors, he took part in extortion campaigns against more than a...
Hackers are increasingly setting their sights on backups — not on systems or servers, but specifically on the very data companies safeguard “for a rainy day” to restore operations after an attack. A new...
In the United Kingdom, former Labour politician Oliver Stedman, who once served as a councillor for Islington in North London, has been formally charged with blackmail. Stedman resigned from his post following his arrest...
UK authorities have arrested two teenagers suspected of involvement in the August 2024 cyberattack on London’s Transport for London (TfL). The arrests stem from an international investigation linked to the notorious hacking collective Scattered...
Cyberattacks originating not only from criminal syndicates but also from foreign intelligence services have inflicted nearly €300 billion in damages on the German economy over the past year. This conclusion comes from the industry...
Cybercriminals have discovered a way to bypass mobile operators’ filters and launch large-scale waves of fraudulent text messages. Whereas past attacks relied on databases of phone numbers and automated distribution through conventional networks, attackers...
Several major European airports—including London Heathrow, Berlin Brandenburg, and Brussels—faced flight delays and cancellations on Saturday following a cyberattack against a company responsible for passenger check-in systems. Heathrow officials reported that supplier Collins Aerospace,...
Microsoft, in collaboration with Cloudflare, has carried out a sweeping operation against RaccoonO365, a Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform widely exploited to steal Microsoft 365 credentials across the globe. Through coordinated action, 338 domains were seized,...
The Yala protocol has suffered a devastating blow to its ecosystem: on September 14, its Bitcoin-backed stablecoin YU collapsed by nearly 80%—plunging from $1 to $0.20—after attackers exploited a vulnerability in the system. The...
Google has confirmed that a bogus account was created in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS), the portal used by government agencies to request user data. A company spokesperson said: “We discovered a fake...
Twenty-two-year-old American Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, better known by his alias Pompompurin, has received a new sentence in the case concerning the creation and administration of the notorious hacking forum BreachForums. An appellate court overturned...
A sprawling advertising-fraud operation known as SlopAds hid behind a storefront of hundreds of seemingly innocuous Android apps and ballooned into a global enterprise. Researchers at Satori (HUMAN) recently described how 224 programs amassed...
