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SIM-Swapper “Scattered Spider” Hacker Sentenced to 10 Years, Ordered to Pay $13 Million

A 20-year-old Palm Coast man, Noah Michael Urban-known as “King Bob”, “Sosa”, and other aliases-was sentenced today, 21 August 2025, to 10 years in...
Banking & Finance

Fake News for Real Scams: Inside the Global Threat of Baiting News Sites and Crypto Investment Fraud

In July 2025, Bahrain-based cybersecurity firm CTM360 released a bombshell report exposing the alarming global rise of Baiting News Sites (BNS) fraudulent news platforms...
Phishing & Solution

PDFs: Portable Documents or Perfect Phishing Vectors?

Cybersecurity professionals are sounding the alarm: PDF attachments are increasingly leveraged in sophisticated phishing campaigns. Cisco Talos’ July 2, 2025 investigation reveals how threat actors use...
Password Security

ALERT: FBI Warns Scattered Spider Is Now Targeting Airlines with Social Engineering Attacks

What happened, why it matters, why now:The FBI has issued a rare airline-sector alert after observing the cybercriminal group Scattered Spider pivoting to target...
Advanced Persistent Threat

Cybercriminals Camouflage Malware as AI Tools in Sophisticated New Campaign

A surge of new cybersecurity threats has been uncovered by Cisco Talos, revealing a campaign in which malicious actors disguise malware and ransomware as...
Advanced Persistent Threat

APT41 Unmasked: Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Google Calendar for Covert Attacks

On 23 October 2024, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) revealed a sophisticated campaign by Chinese state-linked threat actor APT41, leveraging Google Calendar as command-and-control...
Advanced Persistent Threat

Winos 4.0 Campaign Unmasked NSIS Abuse, sRDI Shellcode, and a Stealthy Global Threat

A stealth malware campaign leveraging trojanized NSIS installers and advanced in-memory shellcode execution has been tracked by Rapid7 since February 2025. Known as “Winos...
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