INTERPOL announced the results of Operation Serengeti III on 22 October 2026. The coordinated action ran from June 29 to August 31, 2026 and targeted business email compromise (BEC), ransomware and online scams. It led to 1,462 arrests, the disruption of 10,909 malicious networks and the recovery of more than $105 million (bleepingcompute…
Proofpoint reported at its Protect 2026 conference that generative AI is removing the behavioral tells (awkward language, reused templates, repeated infrastructure) that email filters have relied on. Attackers can now produce fluent, personalized, unique messages for each recipient, which weakens behavior-only detection. The vendor cites …
Infoblox links the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least 2017, to the Russian-language affiliate program Hotejka, assessed with high confidence to be a rebrand of the traffic monetization operation ROI777. Help TDS supplies PHP templates and a malicious WordPress plugin that affiliates install on comprom…
A New Mexico state judge, Francis J. Mathew, ordered Meta to pay $25 billion to the state of New Mexico, the largest penalty ever imposed on the company (securityweek.com, thehackernews.com, techcrunch.com). A jury found more than 43 million violations of the state's consumer protection and unfair practices law. The case was filed in 2021…