Attacks on carriers and telecom providers, including SIM swap operations and the smishing campaigns that abuse their networks. Each entry is broken down with an original video explainer, key findings, and the red flags your team should watch for. How we produce these.
A TrendAI (Trend Micro) report describes a structured underground market where criminals recruit employees to provide access, approve transactions, and bypass controls, often via Telegram and hacking forums. The article gives concrete examples (e.g., paying a FedEx employee $1,000/day to update…
A researcher says North Korean operators used fake high-salary job offers to trick software developers into downloading an “interview test” program that installed malware. He reports evidence that 1,640 organizations across 57 countries were impacted, with hundreds suffering serious intrusions,…
This weekly threat bulletin summarizes multiple real-world incidents, including phishing that abuses Microsoft’s legitimate app login/consent screens and a campaign that hijacks hotel Wi‑Fi captive portals. In both cases, the goal is to trick people into granting access or capturing Microsoft…
A threat landscape report describes how criminals now buy or rent phishing, fraud, malware, and hidden infrastructure “as a service,” making scams faster to launch and harder to stop. The article highlights practical, repeatable social-engineering workflows such as fake CAPTCHA pages that trick…
A Russia-aligned group (TA488) sent specially crafted emails that triggered malicious JavaScript simply by being viewed in Outlook Web Access (no link click or attachment needed). The implant (“OWAReaper”) can quietly change server-side mailbox permissions and abuse OAuth tokens, so attackers can…
Proofpoint reports a Russian-linked espionage group is using booby-trapped emails that infect users simply when they open the message in Outlook Web Access (OWA) on on‑premises Exchange. The attack runs malicious JavaScript inside the victim’s logged-in mail session and installs a stealthy…
Russian-linked threat actors sent generic-looking informational emails that required no clicking, but simply opening them in vulnerable Outlook Web Access (OWA) could trigger a hidden exploit. The campaign targeted government and multiple industries, then installed a stealthy browser-based implant…
UK and US cyber authorities and Proofpoint reported a real campaign where the Russian-linked group “Laundry Bear” (TA488) sent emails that could infect victims simply by being opened in Outlook Web Access. The email’s HTML triggers the server to run attacker code, installing a mailbox-stealing…
Russian authorities allege Telegram was used to recruit and pressure young people into real-world attacks, with “Ukrainian agents” posing as young women via a popular Telegram dating chatbot. The article describes a concrete manipulation workflow (romance/entrapment → coercion) that led to arrests…
Proofpoint reports a Russia-aligned espionage group (TA488) returned with a campaign that compromises on‑premises Outlook Web Access simply when a user opens an email in the reading pane. The attack uses a cross-site scripting flaw to run hidden JavaScript, install a browser-resident implant, and…
Researchers report Mirage Kitten (an espionage-focused threat group) targeted organizations in the Middle East and Africa using highly tailored spear‑phishing. The lures included recruitment-themed messages impersonating trusted brands/hiring sites and fake videoconferencing pages that redirected…
An attacker called the victim pretending to be their mobile carrier, built trust with a “customer satisfaction survey,” then asked the victim to read back an SMS one-time passcode and a long-standing account passcode. The attacker had already initiated (and days earlier executed) a SIM swap, then…
Italy’s privacy regulator fined telecom operator WINDTRE after two breaches where attackers used simple social engineering, not hacking tools. The attackers posed as support technicians and talked retail store staff into giving them system access, leading to theft of customer data. The case shows…
Italy’s privacy regulator fined telecom operator WINDTRE €1.7M after two breaches where attackers used social engineering, posing as support technicians, to persuade store staff to grant system access. The intruders then pulled personal data for over 365,000 customers, including payment-related…
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