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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.