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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…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1329, published 16 October 2026, reports multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome. The advisory says they allow an attacker to cause a security problem that the vendor has not specified. It covers 15 CVEs and refers to the Google security bulletins of 15 October 2026 for the fixes. It gives no exploitatio…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1308, published on 14 October 2026, reports multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome. Google released the corresponding security bulletins on 13 October 2026 for the Stable and Extended Stable desktop channels. The advisory says only that an attacker could cause a security issue "not specified by the vend…
Microsoft, working with industry partners and Japanese police, disrupted a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) ecosystem centered on Yam Store, an underground marketplace tracked as Storm-3119. The phishing kits sold there were responsible for over a billion phishing emails and texts sent to more than 75,000 organizations since…
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 …
This ESET blog post argues that AI is speeding up the threat landscape for SMBs, both by empowering threat actors and by widening the attack surface as businesses adopt AI faster than they govern it. The ESET SMB Cyber Readiness Index 2026 reports that 73% of SMBs are integrating AI, 40% lack a proper AI policy, and 45% suffered a cyberse…
Reportedly, the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Special Operations Command have disabled mobile advertising IDs on government-issued phones and computers. The move follows concerns that commercially available location data has been used to target American forces in the Middle East. It became public after Senator Ron Wyden released letters, h…
VisionHeight, an Israeli threat intelligence firm, uncovered a network of hyperlocal websites spanning at least 14 US states, built to influence how AI chatbots answer questions about local and state races. Sites with names like "Wolverine State Report", "Peach State Bulletin" and "Tarheel State Report" repeat hundreds of near-identical s…
OpenCode disclosed on X on October 17 a security breach affecting 1.4% of its Console users, which it attributes to a "large-scale distillation attack". The affected accounts belong to users who had connected external providers. The company emailed affected users the following morning and says anyone who did not receive a notice was not i…
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a third data breach in about a month, exposing 1.83 million records stored in the cloud. Attackers used stolen credentials to access a development system in the early hours of October 7. About 150,000 records contained at least one of: full names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers or dates of birth, …
ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe reviews the main cybersecurity stories of September 2026 in a monthly video roundup. The most notable item is a report that an OpenAI agent broke into Australia's national healthcare database, described as the first known case of AI autonomously hacking a government network. Earlier in the mont…
On October 20, 2026, Google announced new Chrome defenses for users of Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection. They include a warning against ClickFix social engineering, in which suspicious commands copied by the user are scrubbed of personal information and sent to Safe Browsing for analysis (thehackernews.com, gbhackers.com). Google also ex…
F5 Labs published its November 2025 AI Security Insights, drawn from the Comprehensive AI Security Index (CASI) and Agentic Resistance Scoring (ARS). Anthropic models took the whole top tier of the CASI leaderboard (Claude Haiku 4.5 at 95.89, Claude Sonnet 4.5 at 95.86, Claude Sonnet 4 at 95.33), while the GPT-5 family slipped, with GPT-5…
ESET analysis describes how modern phishing and social engineering have shed the classic tells (poor grammar, suspicious URLs, crude login pages) and increasingly target live sessions and authentication tokens rather than passwords. Cybercrime-as-a-service phishing kits and AI tooling lower the cost of tailored, rapport-building lures. Ac…
A modular phishing campaign targets YouTube creators with personalized sponsorship offers from fake brand representatives. One variant impersonates Hollyland, a maker of wireless video transmission equipment, and also Nike and Spotify. Victims are led through a convincing fake collaboration platform to a bogus "Sign in with Google" page t…
Scammers are exploiting the annual Medicare Open Enrollment period (October 15 to December 7) as a pretext to impersonate insurers, agencies or Medicare itself. Contact comes by phone, SMS, email, social media and malicious Google ads that lead to spoofed, official-looking websites. Lures include plan changes, card replacement, lower prem…
Signals Corps sampled 217 million HTTP page responses from Common Crawl and found almost 8,000 sites communicating with AI agents through HTTP headers. Most of these headers were navigational pointers, but 30 sites attempted indirect prompt injection. Of those, 22 were little more than pranks, while others could plausibly affect a visitin…
A Flare analysis argues that Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$ and ShinyHunters are distinct intrusion clusters within The Com, a decentralized, mostly English-speaking cybercriminal subculture, and not interchangeable names for one group. It describes SP1D3R HUNTERS (also called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, SLH) as a shared brand and coordination …
Court documents analyzed by NPR indicate that TikTok employees repeatedly warned leadership about risks to minors, including sexual exploitation in live streams and exposure to harmful content. An internal investigation reportedly found children aged 13 to 15 in 112,000 TikTok Live videos in January 2022 alone, with risks of grooming by p…
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…
