Social Engineering
The Based Apparel merchandise site was pulled offline on May 22 after reports it served a ClickFix attack: a fake Cloudflare check whose copy button placed a hidden shell command on the clipboard for visitors to paste into their own terminal.
shinyhunters
Cushman & Wakefield confirmed a vishing-related breach on May 5. ShinyHunters and Qilin both listed it on their leak sites within days. After negotiations failed, ShinyHunters posted a 50GB Salesforce dataset on May 8. The dual-claim attribution puzzle is the new operational story for SaaS-era IR.
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ShinyHunters defaced Canvas login pages worldwide on May 7 — disrupting finals week at Harvard, Penn, Duke, and Virginia Tech. The group claims 275 million records from 9,000 schools and is now telling individual schools to negotiate ransom payments by May 12. Instructure had declared the May 1 incident contained
Fraud
404 Media's Joseph Cox published an investigation on May 7, 2026 in which he obtained, installed, and personally tested Haotian AI — a Chinese realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers — and watched a Cambodia-based operator's face shapeshift into his own during a live Microsoft Teams call.
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The Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre published an advisory on May 7, 2026 warning that pro-criminal threat actors are using compromised legitimate Australian WordPress websites as launch pads for ClickFix social-engineering attacks delivering the Vidar Stealer information-stealing malware. Visitors to compromised Australian business
Cyber Crime
Marlon Ferro, a 20-year-old Santa Ana, California man also known online as "GothFerrari" and "Marlo," was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison on May 7, 2026 for serving as the home-invader and money-launderer for a 14-person "Social Engineering Enterprise&
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
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
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
Instructure says its forensics team believes the latest attack is contained — but won't yet say what's been touched.
Threat Intelligence
The OAuth phishing kit is plumbed end-to-end through legitimate SaaS, which is exactly the point.
Trending
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.