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 ...

PT-2025-39213

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Chamilo versions prior to 1.11.34 Description Chamilo is a learning management system susceptible to a stored cross-site scripting XSS issue. An attacker with a low-privileged account, such as a trainer, can inject malicious JavaScript into th...

PT-2025-38127

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WatchGuard Fireware OS versions 11.10.2 through 11.12.4 Update1 WatchGuard Fireware OS versions 12.0 through 12.11.3 WatchGuard Fireware OS version 2025.1 Description An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in WatchGuard Fireware OS,...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Origin and Propagation of Squid

New research paywalled: Editor 's summary: Cephalopods are one of the most successful marine invertebrates in modern oceans, and they have a 500-million-year-old history. However, we know very little about their evolution because soft-bodied animals rarely fossilize. Ikegami et al. developed an...

Scammers Steal $1 Million in Crypto Using Fake Delta and AMC Sites

Cybersecurity firm Netcraft has discovered a new task scam cluster that has stolen over $1 million in crypto.…...

ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider Linked to Farmers Insurance Data Breach

Farmers Insurance reports a breach affecting 1.1 million customers. Learn how the attack, linked to groups ShinyHunters and…...

77 Malicious Android Apps With 19M Downloads Targeted 831 Banks Worldwide

Zscaler reports 77 Android apps on Google Play with 19 million installs spread malware, hitting 831 banks and…...

Google settles YouTube lawsuit over kids’ privacy invasion and data collection

Google has agreed to a $30 million settlement in the US over allegations that it illegally collected data from underage YouTube users for targeted advertising. The lawsuit claims Google tracked the personal information of children under 13 without proper parental consent, which is a violation of...

Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years, $13M Restitution for SIM Swapping Crypto Theft

A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the U.S. in connection with a series of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts. Noah Michael Urban pleaded guilty to charges related to wire fraud and aggravated identity...

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years

A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider " was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges o...

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more...

Threat Actor Claims to Sell 15.8 Million Plain-Text PayPal Credentials

A seller named ChuckyBF is offering 15.8M PayPal logins with emails, passwords, and URLs. The data may come…...

Police Bust Crypto Scammers, Nab Smishing SMS Blaster Operator

Thai police arrest SMS Blaster operator in smishing scam and bust crypto laundering gang moving $30M monthly through…...

Romance scammers in Ghana charged with more than $100 million in theft

The Department of Justice DOJ extradited and indicted 4 Ghanaian nationals for allegedly stealing more than $100 million, mainly through romance scams and business email compromises. According to a report from Comparitech, nearly 59,000 Americans fell victim to romance scams in 2024, losing an...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 4, 2025 to August 10, 2025)

Calling all Vulnerability Researchers and Bug Bounty Hunters! Spring into Summer with Wordfence! Now through September 4, 2025, earn 2X bounty rewards forall in-scope submissions from our 'High Threat' list in software with fewer than 5 million active installs. Bounties up to $31,200 per...

Bouygues Telecom Hit by Cyberattack, 6.4 Million Customers Affected

A cyberattack on Bouygues Telecom exposed data for 6.4 million customers. Find out what information was compromised and…...

GreedyBear Steals $1M in Crypto Using 150+ Malicious Firefox Wallet Extensions

A newly discovered campaign dubbed GreedyBear has leveraged over 150 malicious extensions to the Firefox marketplace that are designed to impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets and steal more than $1 million in digital assets. The published browser add-ons masquerade as MetaMask, TronLink,...

Program Analysis for High-Value Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: Techniques

A widespread belief in the blockchain security community is that automated techniques are only good for detecting shallow bugs, typically of small value. In this paper, we present the techniques and insights that have led us to repeatable success in automatically discovering high-value smart...

Europol Arrests XSS Forum Admin in Kyiv After 12-Year Run Operating Cybercrime Marketplace

Europol on Monday announced the arrest of the suspected administrator of XSS.is formerly DaMaGeLaB, a notorious Russian-speaking cybercrime platform. The arrest, which took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 222, 2025, was led by the French Police and Paris Prosecutor, in collaboration with Ukrainia...

Cyber Security of Mega Events: a Case Study of Securing the Digital Infrastructure for MahaKumbh 2025 -- a 45 Days Mega Event of 600 Million Footfalls

Mega events such as the Olympics, World Cup tournaments, G-20 Summit, religious events such as MahaKumbh are increasingly digitalized. From event ticketing, vendor booth or lodging reservations, sanitation, event scheduling, customer service, crime reporting, media streaming and messaging on...