Cybercrime is taking a larger share of criminal activity in Asia and the Pacific. More than half of surveyed jurisdictions reported that cybercrime accounts for over 30% of all crimes recorded nationally, according to INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report. Distribution of malware types detected within the Asia and South Pacific region...Read More
Take a look at the ‘Loveless, the Hacker’ Vault Hunter Teaser Trailer for Borderlands 4, the latest addition to the first-person looter shooter RPG developed by Gearbox. Players will get acquainted with the new Vault Hunter entering the fold with Loveless, an ex-Anshin hacker turned assassin. Loveless is fitted with the highest-end cybernetics and a...Read More
COMMUNITY News: Residents, families, seniors, nonprofit organizations, churches, educators, and small business owners are invited to attend a free Community Cybersecurity Awareness Presentation, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Conference Center, 60 Entrada Drive. This free educational event is being presented through a partnership...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
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
Iran-linked group claims prolonged access to sensitive FBI drone data World Cup security enters spotlight after hackers issue public warning Handala expands attention with claims involving American institutions recently An Iran-linked hacking group has claimed access to FBI drone systems and issued threats referencing the ongoing FIFA World Cup in the United States. Monitoring organization...Read More
