Dutch police arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man on September 15 on suspicion of playing a role in the ShinyHunters criminal organisation. Police have not named him, but Brian Krebs identified him as Pepijn van der Stap, a convicted hacker. A search of his laptop reportedly turned up details of two murders "to be committed abroad", which…
Kenneth Carter, 44, of Portland, Oregon, a former AT&T retail store employee, was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for acting as the inside man for a SIM-swap gang. According to his plea agreement, the scheme ran from May 2018 to November 2019 and involved at least three co-conspirators. Carter used privileged store access to move…
U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius (alias Kiberphant0m), 22, was sentenced in Seattle to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty to hacking multiple telecommunications companies and stealing call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024. Working with co-c…
The F5 Labs 2026 State of PQC on the Web report scanned the top 1 million domains with TLS 1.3 handshakes. It found that 54% support post-quantum (hybrid) key exchange, but the figure is driven mainly by CDNs, especially Cloudflare and Fastly, which enable PQC by default. Excluding Cloudflare-hosted domains, adoption falls to 22%. Sectors…
Unit 42 analyzed the operational environment of a previously unreported, financially motivated, English-speaking actor using the handle BUGSTER. The actor ran the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek V4 as its reasoning engine and the Cursor IDE as a secondary tool, with safety controls disabled in both. With AI-generated scripts and reco…
MITRE released version 20 of its ATT&CK framework, expanding coverage of recent adversary tradecraft across the Enterprise, ICS and Mobile domains. Enterprise gains nine techniques and sub-techniques, including two prompt injection techniques (direct and indirect), abuse of an organization's own AI agents for data theft, poisoning of web …