June 10, 2026 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – In continuous efforts to strengthen public awareness of cybercrime threats, the Cyber Crime Investigation Division of the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) recently was invited to deliver a briefing titled ‘Online Scams’ at two separate programmes recently. The briefing was conducted as part of the Information Literacy Programme...Read More
UNK_DeadDrop targets developers with email‑based fake job lures Campaign mirrors Lazarus tactics but uses new self‑contained payloads Proofpoint says shift to mass phishing shows industrialized NK ops Lazarus is not the only North Korean threat actor that is luring software developers with fake jobs – there is also a hacking group called UNK_DeadDrop now doing...Read More
A new security centre has launched in Guernsey to provide free advice and support to islanders and businesses around cyber threats. The Guernsey Cyber Security Centre will be operated in conjunction with the Jersey Cyber Security Centre and under the oversight of the Committee for Home Affairs. Director of both Matt Palmer said it was...Read More
Summary On June 8, 2026, the ransomware group TheGentlemen launched a cyberattack againstInstitucion Cervantes (cervantes.edu.ar), a notable private higher education institution in Argentina. The group has threatened to release sensitive data unless their demands are met. Incident Report Field Details Target Institucion Cervantes Domain cervantes.edu.ar Country Argentina Attacking Group TheGentlemen Date Reported June 8, 2026...Read More
Check Point on Monday warned that a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting its VPN and firewall products has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS score of 9.3), the security defect is described as a logic flow weakness in the validation process of Remote Access and Mobile Access certificates. It...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 09, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a command injection vulnerability that could allow any authenticated user...Read More
U.S.-based cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike warned Tuesday of increasing cyberattacks from China-based entities aimed at stealing artificial intelligence to narrow the tech gap with the U.S. The Chinese entities accounted for more than 58% of state-sponsored targeted cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially their AI assets, CrowdStrike said in a report. “China-nexus adversaries are escalating espionage...Read More
North Korea-aligned hackers are once again targeting the developer community, this time by hiding malicious code inside seemingly legitimate GitHub repositories. The campaign, tracked under the name UNK_DeadDrop, uses fake job offers and code review requests to lure developers into cloning infected repositories and unknowingly executing malware on their own machines. The threat actor sent...Read More
The recent eJewishPhilanthropy article exploring cybersecurity and the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence on online crime is both timely and unsettling (“Security experts warn philanthropic, Jewish worlds at risk as AI supercharges cyber attacks,” April 27). It highlights a reality many Jewish organizations are only beginning to fully absorb. While our community has invested heavily...Read More
A ransomware data breach occurs when attackers encrypt an organization’s systems and simultaneously steal sensitive data, using the threat of public exposure as a second lever to force payment. It is both a system-availability crisis and a data privacy violation, which is why it triggers legal notification obligations that a simple ransomware attack without exfiltration...Read More
