Cyber Crime
Six days before the 276-arrest takedown, the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force restrained $701.96 million in cryptocurrency, seized 503 fake investment websites, and pulled off the first-ever federal seizure of a Telegram channel — the recruitment funnel that lured trafficking victims into Cambodian scam compounds. The arrests got
Data Breaches
A Bloomberg investigation found that nearly all 20 U.S. state-run health insurance exchanges plus D.C. were sending applicant data — citizenship, race, ZIP codes, prescriptions, even disclosures about incarcerated family members — to TikTok, Meta, Google, Snap, and LinkedIn via misconfigured tracking pixels. More than 7 million Americans bought insurance
phishing
Securonix tracked a phishing campaign that has compromised more than 80 organizations — mostly U.S.-based — by abusing legitimate SimpleHelp and ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote-monitoring tools. The lure impersonates the U.S. Social Security Administration. The architecture is dual-RMM redundancy: when defenders detect one channel, the other persists. Securonix Threat Research
Ransomware
World Leaks — the rebrand of Hunters International — published 8.5 terabytes and roughly 15 million files from Mediaworks, Hungary's pro-Orbán media giant. Mediaworks asked journalists not to report on the leak, citing criminal data-handling law. At least one Hungarian outlet refused. The data-extortion group World Leaks claimed responsibility
phishing
Microsoft Defender Research disclosed a sophisticated AiTM phishing campaign that hit 35,000+ users at 13,000+ organizations across 26 countries in just three days. 92% of targets were in the U.S. The lure was a fake employee disciplinary case. The reverse proxy stole session tokens — bypassing MFA in
Policy & Government
The Department of Homeland Security used a 1930s customs law to demand Google hand over a Canadian's location, activity logs, and identifying information — over anti-ICE posts. The Canadian has not entered the United States in more than ten years. The ACLU is suing. WIRED reported on May 4,
Vulnerabilities
A Defender signature update flagged DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha and quarantined them worldwide. Microsoft fixed it in 1.449.430.0. The underlying DigiCert breach is the bigger story.
Threat Intelligence
CTM360 names FEMITBOT — a shared backend running crypto scams, fake AI tools, and Android malware impersonating Apple, NVIDIA, Disney, and the BBC, all inside Telegram.
Cyber Attacks
Trellix — formed from McAfee Enterprise + FireEye, owned by Symphony Technology Group — confirms unauthorized access to its source code repository. Customers should monitor and ask, not panic.
The operator who installed the spyware was the one who left the cloud bucket open.
The breach didn't need a hack. It needed an interoperability framework that took fake clinics at their word.
Instructure says its forensics team believes the latest attack is contained — but won't yet say what's been touched.
The OAuth phishing kit is plumbed end-to-end through legitimate SaaS, which is exactly the point.
CISA added CVE-2026-31431 — "Copy Fail" — to its KEV catalog after confirming active exploitation of a Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw affecting every distribution running kernels since 2017, allowing unprivileged users to gain root.
Vietnamese-linked operation "AccountDumpling" has compromised 30,000 Facebook Business accounts by sending phishing emails from Google's legitimate AppSheet address — bypassing spam filters and running a criminal resale storefront for stolen accounts.
CVE-2026-42208 in LiteLLM — the open-source AI gateway with 45K GitHub stars — was exploited within 36 hours of disclosure with no public PoC. A successful attack yields OpenAI org keys, Anthropic workspace admin keys, and AWS Bedrock credentials.
276 suspects arrested and 9 cryptocurrency fraud centers dismantled in a joint US-China operation targeting pig-butchering scams that have cost American victims millions — the DOJ called it "unprecedented" bilateral cooperation.
Official SAP npm packages were backdoored on April 29 in the latest Mini Shai-Hulud wave — adding browser credential theft across Chrome, Safari, and Edge to the campaign's existing cloud secret harvesting. Over 1,100 victim repositories confirmed.
Wiz discovered CVE-2026-3854 — a critical GitHub RCE where a single crafted git push gave attackers cross-tenant code execution and access to millions of private repositories. 88% of GHES instances were still unpatched at public disclosure.
Ryan Goldberg (Sygnia) and Kevin Martin (DigitalMint) were sentenced to 4 years in federal prison for acting as BlackCat ransomware affiliates while employed as incident response professionals — attacking the same clients they were hired to help.
Trend Micro publishes full technical attribution of Shadow-Earth-053 — confirming the China-linked group targets journalists and civil society activists alongside governments and defense sectors across Asia and one NATO member state.
