Giles Bruce reports: Microsoft has seized 338 phishing websites associated with a cybercrime service that targeted at least 20 U.S. healthcare organizations. Using a court order granted by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the tech giant’s Digital Crimes Unit disrupted RaccoonO365, which offers subscription-based phishing kits allowing novices to mimic official…
The threat actor known as Confucius has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that has targeted Pakistan with malware families like WooperStealer and Anondoor. “Over the past decade, Confucius has repeatedly targeted government agencies, military organizations, defense contractors, and critical industries — especially in Pakistan – using spear-phishing and malicious documents as initial
A recent executive order is taking federal cybersecurity requirements a few step backwards. Is there anything positive about it? Dan Goodin reports: Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing software the government uses, punishing people who compromise sensitive networks, preparing new encryption…
Trimble Cityworks is affected by a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks involving the delivery of malware. The post Trimble Cityworks Customers Warned of Zero-Day Exploitation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A law enforcement operation coordinated by INTERPOL has led to the recovery of $3 million and the arrest of 574 suspects by authorities from 19 countries, amidst a continued crackdown on cybercrime networks in Africa. The coordinated effort, named Operation Sentinel, took place between October 27 and November 27, 2025, and mainly focused on business…
Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: When Royal Cornwall Hospital responded to a routine Freedom of Information request in 2023, they had no idea they were about to expose sensitive staff data to the public. The hospital recently apologized after discovering that a spreadsheet published on their website contained hidden sickness absence data for 8,100 current and……
It’s time once again to pay our respects to the once-famous cybersecurity solutions whose usefulness died in the past year. The cybercriminal world collectively mourns the loss of these solutions and the easy access they provide to victim organizations. These solutions, though celebrated in their prime, succumbed to the twin forces of time and advancing…
