A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka,
Threat actors behind the "Phantom Deal" campaign are studying companies in extreme detail, aiming to dupe midlevel employees into initiating large financial transfers.
Two separate attacks demonstrate how threat actors are finding new ways to compromise organizations by using the popular social engineering tactic.
Threat actors are abusing multiple Google services to evade detection, ultimately harvesting credentials or installing ScreenConnect remote access.
Threat actors are leveraging Microsoft's Graph API to identify lucrative targets, then passing their access to extortion groups like ShinyHunters.
Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.
A likely North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group used a previously undocumented Linux espionage toolkit to compromise load balancers, gain access to communications, and further exploit networks.
Amid the US and China's fight for eco-colonial influence in Latin America, a stealthy backdoor has taken flight.
Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture, a premium WordPress plugin that has more than 6,000 active installs. "This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including PHP backdoors,
Acronis has warned that a high-severity security flaw in its Backup plugin for cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) deployments has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-87886 (CVSS score: 7.8), is described as a case of local privilege escalation due t
Google has disclosed that a high-severity security flaw in its Pixel Cellular Modem has come under exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704 (CVSS score: 8.0), is a privilege escalation flaw. "In Cellular Modem, there is a possible permission bypass
The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries in Latin America since at least August 2025. "SparroWocky is a modular, C++ backdoor," ES