Vietnamese police made several HiAnime piracy arrests, dismantling a massive anime streaming network that generated over $12 million in illegal revenue.
Cyber Crime
Europol targets illegal streaming networks run by complex criminal enterprises. The joint action dismantled nine crime groups and removed 27,000 URLs.
Infoblox Threat Intel exposes a highly scalable hybrid scam merging automated malvertising with "pig butchering" to drain global crypto investors' funds.
Bridewell warns of Russian hackers targeting Booking.com. Phishing kits steal hotel staff creds to scam guests with "I Paid Twice" messages.
Kaspersky warns: Pirated visual novels are spreading RenEngine malware. Attackers use fake downloads to install ACR Stealer. Protect your data now.
Unit 42 reveals Muddled Libra (Scattered Spider) uses rogue VMs in vSphere to persist. Learn how they bypass defenses without malware. Read more.
New "PhantomVAI" malware recycles old Hackforums "RunPE" code to bypass modern EDR. Campaigns use task scheduler masquerading to deliver infostealers.
Group-IB reveals a sophisticated loan phishing campaign in Peru. Scammers use the Luhn algorithm to validate stolen credit cards via fake ads.
Infoblox researchers hijacked a scam network using the "Sitting Ducks" DNS flaw. 57M logs reveal how abandoned domains fuel global push notification spam.
Check Point reveals Sicarii ransomware is a Russian false flag operation. Despite Israeli branding, the group relies on machine-translated Hebrew.
New Magecart campaign mimics Stripe forms to skim credit cards. Malware hides from admins & tricks users with fake errors. Active since 2022.