Chinese Cybercrime Group Runs Global SEO Fraud Ring Using Compromised IIS Servers

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group codenamed UAT-8099 that has been attributed to search engine optimization SEO fraud and theft of high-value credentials, configuration files, and certificate data. The attacks are designed to target Microsoft Interne...

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Renault UK Customer Records Stolen in Third-Party Breach

Renault UK warns customers of a third-party data breach exposing personal details, stressing vigilance against fraud and confirming no bank data lost...

UAT-8099: Chinese-speaking cybercrime group targets high-value IIS for SEO fraud

Cisco Talos is disclosing details on UAT-8099, a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group mainly involved in search engine optimization SEO fraud and theft of high-value credentials, configuration files, and certificate data. Cisco's file census and DNS analysis show affected Internet Information Servic...

Use of Generative AI in Scams

New report: "Scam GPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud." This primer maps what we currently know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts that are making people more willing to take risks, more vulnerable to deception, and...

U.K. Police Just Seized £5.5 Billion in Bitcoin — The World's Largest Crypto Bust

A Chinese national has been convicted for her role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme after law enforcement authorities in the U.K. confiscated £5.5 billion about $7.39 billion during a raid of her home in London. The cryptocurrency seizure, amounting to 61,000 Bitcoin, is believed to be the...

AutoML in Cybersecurity: An Empirical Study

Automated machine learning AutoML has emerged as a promising paradigm for automating machine learning ML pipeline design, broadening AI adoption. Yet its reliability in complex domains such as cybersecurity remains underexplored. This paper systematically evaluates eight open-source AutoML...

Vane Viper Generates 1 Trillion DNS Queries to Power Global Malware and Ad Fraud Network

The threat actor known as Vane Viper has been outed as a purveyor of malicious ad technology adtech, while relying on a tangled web of shell companies and opaque ownership structures to deliberately evade responsibility. "Vane Viper has provided core infrastructure in widespread malvertising, ad...

Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries

Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an "elaborate" online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million $118 million from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. According to Eurojust, the coordinated action saw searches ...

Unmasking Hidden Threats: Spotting a DPRK IT-Worker Campaign

Unmasking Hidden Threats: Spotting a DPRK IT-Worker Campaign By Duy-Phuc Pham and John Fokker · September 23, 2025 In today's complex threat landscape, staying ahead of sophisticated adversaries is paramount. Organizations face constant pressure to identify threats that do not always involve...

Akamai Is the 2025 Customers' Choice in Online Fraud Detection

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224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud campaign discovered

Researchers have discovered a large ad fraud campaign on Google Play Store. The Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team found 224 malicious apps which were downloaded over 38 million times and generated up to 2.3 billion ad requests per day. They named the campaign "SlopAds." Ad fraud is a...

CVE-2025-8699

CVE-2025-8699 affects KioSoft’s Stored Value Unattended Payment Solutions. The flaw centers on insecure MiFare Classic NFC cards storing account balances that can be read and written, enabling an attacker to identify value fields and a checksum (calculated by XOR-ing cash with an unknown field) a...

Fake Bureau of Motor Vehicles texts are after your personal and banking details

Scammers are sending out texts that claim to be from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles BMV, saying that you have outstanding traffic tickets. Here's an example, which was sent to one of our employees. “Ohio BMV Final Notice: Enforcement Begins September 10nd. Our records indicate that as of today, you...

Fraud Detection and Risk Assessment of Online Payment Transactions on E-Commerce Platforms Based on LLM and GCN Frameworks

With the rapid growth of e-commerce, online payment fraud has become increasingly complex, posing serious threats to financial security and consumer trust. Traditional detection methods often struggle to capture the intricate relational structures inherent in transactional data. This study presen...