What happened INTERPOL warned that cybercrime is rising sharply across Asia and the South Pacific, driven by rapid digitalization, wider internet adoption, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and uneven cybersecurity maturity across the region. The findings come from INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report. According to the report, phishing has become the...Read More
Microsoft, Europol, and international partners have disrupted infrastructure used by the Amadey and StealC malware operations as part of Operation Endgame, which targets cybercriminal services and ransomware gangs. The law enforcement action involved authorities and private partners from multiple countries, who assisted in identifying and taking down, seizing, blocking, or sinkholing infrastructure tied to the malware...Read More
An Algerian man known online as “SPOX” was extradited from Spain and charged with running a black-market cybercrime operation that prosecutors say defrauded thousands of victims and funneled roughly $900,000 through a cryptocurrency account over a three-year period. Abdellah Belmili, 26, made his initial appearance Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District...Read More
Swati KhandelwalJun 26, 2026Linux / Vulnerability DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough for the flaw on June 25, the first public demonstration for this variant. Tracked as CVE-2026-43503 (CVSS 8.8), it lets a local user corrupt file-backed memory through a cloned network packet and gain...Read More
In Kharkiv, a Ukrainian combatant gets a message on Telegram. The account on the other end looks like a woman from a local dating channel, and the pair talk for a while. Eventually, she shares a link to what looks like a Ukrainian adult-club site. He follows it, downloads what he thinks is a client...Read More
Türkiye Detains Over 400 Suspects in Nationwide Cybercrime Crackdown – VIDEO Turkish authorities have detained 409 suspects during a large-scale operation targeting cybercrime networks across 29 provinces. The coordinated raids focused on individuals suspected of involvement in online fraud, illegal gambling operations, and other cyber-related offenses, The Caspian Post reports via the Turkish Interior Ministry....Read More
A Police officer stands guard as he blocks the area around the US Embassy in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica on February 22, 2018. (AFP Photo) June 26, 2026 09:22 AM GMT+03:00 An Iran-linked hacker wanted in the United States for allegedly causing billions of dollars in damage has been arrested in Montenegro, police said Thursday. Montenegrin...Read More
This week, Cobalt released the findings of its second annual Cobalt AI and Pentesting Pulse Report 2026. The research evaluated 455 cybersecurity professionals and found that the percentage of organizations that rely entirely on AI automation for testing needs plummeted from 29% to 9% from last year, with 47% now preferring a hybrid testing model,...Read More
Overview For executive leadership, the emergence of Kyber ransomware represents a significant and immediate threat due to its specialized, dual-platform deployment capability targeting mission-critical virtualization infrastructure (VMware ESXi) and core Windows file systems. This cross-platform approach, coupled with effective anti-recovery measures, drastically elevates the risk of a total operational disruption. Organizations should treat Kyber not...Read More
The 39-year-old man, who holds Iranian and Turkish citizenship, was identified by Montenegrin media as Amir Barati and was arrested in the Adriatic resort town of Kotor, Montenegro’s police directorate said Thursday. He is wanted by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on charges including conspiracy to commit computer fraud,...Read More
