Massive AI investment scam network spans 15,500 domains

Researchers tracked a large AI‑themed investment scam campaign involving more than 15,000 domains. It uses cloaking and deepfakes to hide from security tools while targeting ordinary users. Criminals abused the Keitaro ad-tracking platform as part of a cloaking system so real victims see scam...

CVE-2026-0829

The Frontend File Manager Plugin WordPress plugin through 23.5 allows unauthenticated users to send emails through the site without any security checks. This lets attackers use the WordPress site as an open relay for spam or phishing emails to anyone. Attackers can also guess file IDs to access a...

CVE-2026-0829

The CVE-2026-0829 entry concerns the Frontend File Manager Plugin for WordPress (up to version 23.5). It states unauthenticated users can relay emails through the site and access/share uploaded files by guessing file IDs, exposing sensitive information and enabling spam/phishing use. The descript...

CVE-2026-22239 Email Sending Vulnerability in BLUVOYIX

The vulnerability exists in BLUVOYIX due to design flaws in the email sending API. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted HTTP requests to the vulnerable email sending API. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the...

CVE-2022-35488

In Zammad 5.2.0, an attacker could manipulate the rate limiting in the 'forgot password' feature of Zammad, and thereby send many requests for a known account to cause Denial Of Service by many generated emails which would also spam the victim...

EUVD-2022-52780

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

EUVD-2022-34409

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

CVE-2022-31184

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unabl...

Spam and phishing in 2024

The year in figures 27% of all emails sent worldwide and 48.57% of all emails sent in the Russian web segment were spam 18% of all spam emails were sent from Russia Kaspersky Mail Anti-Virus blocked 125,521,794 malicious email attachments Our Anti-Phishing system thwarted 893,216,170 attempts to...

Investors, Trump and the Illuminati: What the “Nigerian prince” scams became in 2024

"Nigerian" spam is a collective term for messages designed to entice victims with alluring offers and draw them into an email exchange with scammers, who will try to defraud them of their money. The original "Nigerian" spam emails were sent in the name of influential and wealthy individuals from...

SP PHP Email Handler 注入漏洞

SP PHP Email Handler is a PHP package for handling contact form submissions from the individual developer Spencer14420. An injection vulnerability exists in versions of SP PHP Email Handler prior to 1.0.0, which stems from the vulnerability of messages sent to be abused, allowing an attacker to u...

Ongoing Campaign Bombards Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing social engineering campaign that bombards enterprises with spam emails with the goal of obtaining initial access to their environments for follow-on exploitation. "The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user's email with junk and...

StrelaStealer Resurfaces with Upgraded Attack Chain

Summary: A recent wave of phishing attacks has been detected, targeting over 100 organizations across the United States and the European Union. These attacks aim to distribute StrelaStealer, a dynamic information-stealing malware. The attackers employ spam emails containing attachments that...

Here Come the AI Worms

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way...

Russian Hackers Target Ukraine with Disinformation and Credential-Harvesting Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation. The activity has been linked to Russia-aligned threat actors by Slovak cybersecurity company ESET, which also identified a spear-phishing campai...

CVE-2023-50455

An issue was discovered in Zammad before 6.2.0. Due to lack of rate limiting in the "email address verification" feature, an attacker could send many requests for a known address to cause Denial Of Service generation of many emails, which would also spam the victim...

SUSE CVE-2023-2183

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The option to send a test alert is not available from the user panel UI for users having the Viewer role. It is still possible for a user with the Viewer role to send a test alert using the API as the API does not check access t...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Automatic Admin Access

The automatic administrative access vulnerability allowed a user to access the application with full administrative privileges, including the ability to create submissions, manage users, and access sensitive data. The vulnerability impacted the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the...

Threat Roundup for March 31 to April 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between March 31 and April 7. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Emotet Rises Again: Evades Macro Security via OneNote Attachments

The notorious Emotet malware, in its return after a short hiatus, is now being distributed via Microsoft OneNote email attachments in an attempt to bypass macro-based security restrictions and compromise systems. Emotet, linked to a threat actor tracked as Gold Crestwood, Mummy Spider, or TA542,...