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flashpoint.io · medium

Joint Disruption Week: 28 arrests in Ghana and Nigeria and 3.7M scam accounts removed in West African scam network takedown

Flashpoint joined the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), the DOJ, FBI, U.S. Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations and private-sector partners in "Joint Disruption Week", held in London the week beginning October 6, 2026. The operation targeted West African scam networks running cryptocurrency investment scams, impersonation scheme…

newsroom.trendmicro.com · medium

Trend Micro report details criminal use of off-the-shelf deepfake tools for CEO fraud, fake job candidates and KYC bypass

Trend Micro published a report, Deepfake it 'til You Make It: A Comprehensive View of the New AI Criminal Toolset, describing how cybercriminals use inexpensive, off-the-shelf generative AI platforms to produce deepfake video, audio and images. Many of these platforms are marketed to content creators. Observed abuse includes CEO fraud wit…

welivesecurity.com · medium

AI-powered OSINT lowers the barrier for mass victim profiling, making ordinary users viable fraud targets

ESET's WeLiveSecurity warns that AI and large language models (LLMs) now automate OSINT reconnaissance at machine speed. Profiling that once took a skilled attacker hours or days can be done by low-skill actors, so ordinary internet users are now economically viable fraud targets. Fraudsters can collect public information at scale, includ…

bitdefender.com · medium

Malone Lam pleads guilty to leading gang that stole over $245 million in cryptocurrency via social engineering

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…

huntress.com · medium

Business email compromise (BEC): tactics, warning signs and defensive guidance, with $55B in reported global losses

Huntress published an explainer on business email compromise (BEC), a targeted form of phishing in which attackers impersonate or take over trusted email accounts to redirect payments or steal credentials. The article cites roughly $55 billion in worldwide losses and a Huntress survey of 500+ US IT professionals, in which 36% of organizat…

unit42.paloaltonetworks.com · medium

Unit 42 reports top five initial access vectors for September 2026: edge exploitation, credential abuse, social engineering, supply chain, drive-by

Unit 42 Threat Intelligence published its overview of the top five initial access threat vectors observed in September 2026. Adversary activity relied heavily on external edge exploitation and identity compromise, with public-facing infrastructure and legitimate credential abuse as the primary footholds for intrusion campaigns. Social eng…