Cyber-Secure Philanthropy: Tech Infrastructure for Global Donations

Secure philanthropy needs hardened payments, API security, and compliance controls to protect global donations from fraud and attacks...

Global Crackdown Arrests 276, Shuts 9 Crypto Scam Centers, Seizes $701M

A coordinated international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities has arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes targeting Americans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses. The crackdown was led by the Dubai...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: SMS Blaster Busts, OpenEMR Flaws, 600K Roblox Hacks and 25 More Stories

The internet is noisy this week. We are seeing some wild new tactics, like people using fake cell towers to send scam texts, while some developers are accidentally downloading tools that peek into their private files during a simple install. It is definitely a busy time to be online. Security is...

Integrating Log-Based Security Analytics in Agile Workflows: A Real-World Experience Report

Modern organizations increasingly rely on log data and monitoring signals to protect products against account takeovers and abuse, yet integrating security analytics into fast-moving Agile workflows remains challenging. While it is important to understand how security practices are developed and...

US-Estonian Suspect Arrested Over Alleged Scattered Spider Cyberattacks

US-Estonian suspect Peter Stokes arrested in Finland over alleged ties to Scattered Spider, facing US charges for cyberattacks, fraud, and data breaches...

Malicious Package

Overview @validate-sdk/v2 is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was not yet removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this...

Malicious Package

Overview terminal-prettier is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was not yet removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this...

CVE-2026-4911

The Booking Package plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Price Manipulation in versions up to, and including, 1.7.06 This is due to the intentForStripe function passing user-controlled $POST'amount' directly to the Stripe PaymentIntent API without validation, and the commitStripe function ignori...

EUVD-2026-26006

The Booking Package plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Price Manipulation in versions up to, and including, 1.7.06 This is due to the intentForStripe function passing user-controlled $POST'amount' directly to the Stripe PaymentIntent API without validation, and the commitStripe function ignori...

Fake CAPTCHA IRSF Scam and 120 Keitaro Campaigns Drive Global SMS, Crypto Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a telecommunications fraud campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA verification tricks to dupe unsuspecting users into sending international text messages that incur charges on their mobile bills, generating illicit revenue for the threat actors who lea...

Fake CAPTCHA Scam Abuses Verification Clicks to Send Costly International Texts

Research from Infoblox reveals a massive Click2SMS fraud scheme using fake CAPTCHAs and back button hijacking to trick victims into sending costly international texts...

Scalable and Verifiable Federated Learning for Cross-Institution Financial Fraud Detection

The global financial ecosystem confronts a critical asymmetry: while fraud syndicates operate as borderless, distributed networks, banking institutions remain constrained by regulatory data silos, limiting visibility into cross-institutional threat patterns under strict privacy laws such as GDPR...

New API: Stripe Webhook Signature Bypass via Empty Secret Enables Unlimited Quota Fraud

Summary A critical vulnerability exists in the Stripe webhook handler that allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge webhook events and credit arbitrary quota to their account without making any payment. The vulnerability stems from three compounding flaws: 1. The Stripe webhook endpoint does n...

GHSA-XFF3-5C9P-2MR4 New API: Stripe Webhook Signature Bypass via Empty Secret Enables Unlimited Quota Fraud

Summary A critical vulnerability exists in the Stripe webhook handler that allows an unauthenticated attacker to forge webhook events and credit arbitrary quota to their account without making any payment. The vulnerability stems from three compounding flaws: 1. The Stripe webhook endpoint does n...

How cyberattacks on companies affect everyone

If you use the internet, you’ve likely been affected by cybercrime in some way. Even when an attack is aimed at a company, the fallout usually lands on ordinary people. The most obvious harm is stolen data. When attackers break into a business, it is usually customer information that ends up in...

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 安全漏洞

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is a Java application server developed by IBM, based on the Open Liberty project. Versions 17.0.0.3 to 26.0.0.4 of IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty contain security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities arise from deploying applications without...

‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty

A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider " has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group...

Big Tech can stop scams. They just don’t (Lock and Code S07E08)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … A dreadful thing happens far too often whenever an older adult falls for a scam: They get blamed for it. Not the scammers who lied and cheated their victim out of money. Not law enforcement for failing to recover funds. Not even the Big Tech companies that...

Booking.com breach gives scammers what they need to target guests

Travel companies love telling you your data is safe. Booking.com just reminded everyone why that's a hard promise to keep. The Amsterdam-based booking giant began notifying customers on April 13 that "unauthorized third parties" had accessed guest reservation data. The compromised information...

AI clickbait can turn your notifications into a scam feed

Pushpaganda is the name researchers have given to an AI-assisted ad fraud, social engineering, and scareware operation targeting mobile users. For most people, Pushpaganda starts as something that looks completely normal. For example, a recommended article in your Google Discover feed the...