Lucknow: A day after Lucknow police busted a sophisticated multi-layered cyber fraud call centre operating from the Vrindavan Yojna area, which swindled crores of rupees from unsuspecting victims across India, as many as 15 individuals, mostly from Bihar and Jharkhand, were arrested. They were allegedly lured into the racket under the pretext of lucrative job […]

On June 6, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14306 to scale back a range of cybersecurity requirements and government-wide approaches implemented by the Biden Administration. The associated Fact Sheet (June 6 Fact Sheet) can be found here. Although E.O. 14306 rescinds certain Biden-era cybersecurity policies pertaining to federal contractors and subcontractors, […]

Fog ransomware was seen using Syteca, a legitimate employee monitoring tool, to log keys and grab passwords It also used open-source tools for payload dropping and file exfiltration The attack was “atypical”, researchers claim Fog ransomware operators have expanded their arsenal to include legitimate and open source tools. This is, most likely, to avoid being […]

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware 7.2 Million Individuals’ Personal Data Being Held to Ransom by Threat Actor Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 13, 2025     The government place in Asunción, Paraguay. (Image: FranckV/Shutterstock) A data-leak extortion group is shaking down the government of Paraguay for a ransom payment worth $7.4 million, or […]

Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme. “We continue to try and shut them […]

In the fast-changing world of cybersecurity, IT leaders have to keep up with evolving threats and new technologies to stay ahead of attackers. With nation states lending a hand to threat groups with more pointed aims than ever before, alongside the double-edged sword of greater AI adoption in cybersecurity, there’s never been a more worrying […]

Nine Chinese nationals linked to cryptocurrency and romance scams have been jailed in Nigeria for “cyber-terrorism and internet fraud”, the national anti-graft agency said They were sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of one million naira (about $630) each in the commercial capital, Lagos, after pleading guilty, said Economic and Financial Crimes […]

Ransomware gangs have been exploiting a vulnerability in remote device control software SimpleHelp during a recent string of attacks, according to federal cybersecurity officials.  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned on Thursday that CVE-2024-57727 — a vulnerability affecting SimpleHelp’s widely-used remote access tools — was exploited to “compromise customers of a utility billing […]

With the news always full of stories about massive data breaches, whether they’re genuinely huge or just a false alarm, it should come as a surprise to learn that the risk of cybercrime affecting gaming has never been greater than at any time before. With billions of PCs, consoles, and phones being used around the […]

In the world of cybercrime surveillance, a critical memory leak in the DanaBot malware’s command-and-control infrastructure—dubbed “DanaBleed”—has exposed a wealth of sensitive information over nearly three years. The flaw allowed cybersecurity researchers to silently observe DanaBot’s internal operations, offering an unprecedented look into one of the longest-running and most notorious malware-as-a-service (MaaS) networks operating out […]