Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean who used the aliases "Anne Hathaway", "$$$" and "King Greavy", has pleaded guilty to leading a group that stole more than US $245 million in cryptocurrency from victims across the United States. According to the US Department of Justice, the group operated from October 2023 to May 2025 and recruited a…
In late August 2026, Sekoia's TDR team observed an attacker compromise an unauthenticated Flowise honeypot (emulating v2.2.8). The attacker harvested stored credentials, tried to plant a malicious chatflow with a callback to 154.217.251.226, and used prompt injection to turn the LLM agent into an offensive analysis assistant. The activity…
F5 Labs reports a scanning campaign observed on its Honeynet in March 2026. It recorded 1,897 session-grouped attempts (2,821 raw events) tied to CVE-2018-14028, a WordPress 4.9.7 unrestricted file upload flaw, and the CVE entered the monthly top 10 after being absent in February. Instead of exploiting the upload flaw, the operator probes…
F5 Labs honeynet telemetry shows overall hostile activity rising 55.5% month over month in June 2026, a return to the levels of the earlier-year spike. Highlighted is CVE-2024-44000, an unauthenticated account takeover flaw (CVSS 9.8, CWE-522) in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin, which rose by 1,128 to 2,603 attacks (8). Scanning is i…