Researchers say a sweeping hacking campaign targeting devices made by Fortinet has led to compromises across the internet, with evidence of password theft at Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in more than 15 countries. Most of the affected devices were in the United States, India, and Taiwan, according to Hudson Rock, a firm that...Read More
Twenty-nine men are facing criminal charges in Jacksonville after Sheriff T.K. Waters said they engaged in online conversations with individuals they believed to be young teens seeking sex. The arrests are the result of a five-day sting operation, dubbed Operation Checkmate, led by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, Water said at...Read More
Tenet Security announced it emerged from stealth with $6 million in seed funding to help enterprises secure autonomous AI agents. The round was led by The Westly Group and MizMaa Ventures. The company was founded by offensive security researchers Barak Sternberg and Nevo Poran. Before launching Tenet, Sternberg and Poran helped build Cisco’s AI Defense...Read More
Cybercrime has become a converged criminal economy, linking ransomware, fraud, trafficking, money laundering and organized crime. Isolated technical responses are inadequate; defenders need shared intelligence, public-private cooperation and cross-domain coordination. Disruption should target criminal ecosystems: infrastructure, financial flows, service providers, recruitment channels and physical operating networks. Cybercrime is evolving into a converged criminal economy that...Read More
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Here is a ransomware trend that is becoming more frequent in 2026: The same victim organizations are posted twice, under two different flags. This is occurring frequently enough that we stopped treating it as a curiosity and went looking for the why behind this trend. We expected one answer, but we found at least five....Read More
Trend Micro found criminals abusing Claude’s “Shared Chats” feature to spread infostealers via ClickFix and malvertising Fake Apple Support chats on claude.ai, promoted through Google Ads, tricked macOS developers into pasting malicious commands Anthropic banned the accounts and disabled malicious conversations, promising further abuse mitigations Security researchers Trend Micro have detected criminals abusing a legitimate...Read More
The US government tried to lock down Anthropic’s most powerful AI models. Now, cybersecurity veterans say that decision could make the internet less safe. Anthropic took Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline after Washington ordered restrictions on foreign access to the models, citing national security concerns. The company said the order forced it to suspend...Read More
ESET Gentlemen operators develop and maintain an EDR-killer suite provided directly to affiliates. GentleKiller, an in-house framework, has at least eight variants abusing different vulnerable or malicious drivers. Gentlemen operators apply a unified evasion strategy across tools to standardize impersonation and protection. Third-party EDR killers (HexKiller, ThrottleBlood, and HavocKiller) are operationally integrated. The gang’s victimology...Read More
Key Findings Global law enforcement and private sector partners worked to disrupt activity related to TA569, as part of Operation Endgame. TA569 is one of the most prominent cybercriminal threat groups in Proofpoint threat data, which our researchers have tracked since 2018. TA569’s SocGholish inject activity has been linked to major ransomware families and criminal syndicates. The law enforcement actions included...Read More
