It may be a bit of an understatement to say that Resecurity has been up in the faces of ScatteredLapsus$Hunters and ShinyHunters. Not only did they recently embarrass the former by deceiving them with a honeypot and providing law enforcement with details about the threat actor attempting to access the synthetic data, but now they…
The cyber world never hits pause, and staying alert matters more than ever. Every week brings new tricks, smarter attacks, and fresh lessons from the field. This recap cuts through the noise to share what really matters—key trends, warning signs, and stories shaping today’s security landscape. Whether you’re defending systems or just keeping up, these…
From Europol: Following the massive botnet takedown codenamed Operation Endgame in May 2024, which shut down the biggest malware droppers, including IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader and Bumblebee, law enforcement agencies across North America and Europe dealt another blow to the malware ecosystem in early 2025. In a coordinated series of actions, customers of the Smokeloader pay-per-install botnet,…
News has been making headlines over the weekend of the extensive attack campaign targeting browser extensions and injecting them with malicious code to steal user credentials. Currently, over 25 extensions, with an install base of over two million users, have been found to be compromised, and customers are now working to figure out their exposure…
Credential theft isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s often the first move in a chain reaction that ends in full-scale compromise. Beyond the dreaded password reset process, information stealers, as shown in several recent cyberattacks, can have far more consequential follow-on effects. For many small and mid-sized organizations, a single stolen identity can lead to…
After BreachForums went offline in April, several clones emerged to try to replace it, but none were truly successful. Yesterday, the “official” BreachForums (if it can be said that there is an “official” one) reappeared on its darkweb address. The forum looked the same and some of the moderators’ names were familiar, but it was…
If you were glued to a Telegram channel the other day watching people associated with ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsu$ leak data and rant about Mandiant, the NCA, the FBI, and demand that some arrested folks be set free, then you might want to think of yesterday and today as the next episode to the……
