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Silent Ransom Group Uses Fast Flux Botnet to Hide Law Firm Leak Sites
Cybersecurity firm Resecurity reports Silent Ransom Group is using a fast flux botnet to hide data leak sites while targeting law firms with theft and vishing...
UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and...
MFA Prompt Bombing: Why Your Second Factor Isn't Saving You
Multi-factor authentication MFA was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn't log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don't need to steal...
Romanian Man Faces Up to 30 Years in US Prison Over Vishing Scams
Romanian national Gavril Sandu faces up to 30 years in a US prison after extradition over a VOIP vishing and fake debit card fraud scheme...
Cybercrime Groups Using Vishing and SSO Abuse in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out "rapid, high-impact attacks" operating almost within the confines of SaaS environments, while leaving minimal traces of their actions. The clusters, Cordial Spider aka BlackFile, CL-CRI-1116, O-UNC-045, and UNC66...
Help on the line: How a Microsoft Teams support call led to compromise
In our eighth Cyberattack Series report, Microsoft Incident Response—the Detection and Response Team DART—investigates a recent identity-first, human-operated intrusion that relied less on exploiting software vulnerabilities and more on deception and legitimate tools. After a customer reached out...
Help on the line: How a Microsoft Teams support call led to compromise
In our eighth Cyberattack Series report, Microsoft Incident Response—the Detection and Response Team DART—investigates a recent identity-first, human-operated intrusion that relied less on exploiting software vulnerabilities and more on deception and legitimate tools. After a customer reached out...
SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks
The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters SLH has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. T...
Can You Tell It'S AI? Human Perception of Synthetic Voices in Vishing Scenarios
Large Language Models and commercial speech synthesis systems now enable highly realistic AI-generated voice scams vishing, raising urgent concerns about deception at scale. Yet it remains unclear whether individuals can reliably distinguish AI-generated speech from human-recorded voices in...
Mandiant Finds ShinyHunters-Style Vishing Attacks Stealing MFA to Breach SaaS Platforms
Google-owned Mandiant on Friday said it identified an "expansion in threat activity" that uses tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks orchestrated by a financially motivated hacking group known as ShinyHunters. The attacks leverage advanced voice phishing aka vishing and bogus...
ShinyHunters Target 100+ Firms Using Phone Calls to Bypass SSO Security
ShinyHunters is driving attacks on 100+ organisations, using vishing and fake login pages with allied groups to bypass SSO and steal company data, reports Silent Push...
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FBI Warns of UNC6040 and UNC6395 Targeting Salesforce Platforms in Data Theft Attacks
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has issued a flash alert to release indicators of compromise IoCs associated with two cybercriminal groups tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395 for orchestrating a string of data theft and extortion attacks. "Both groups have recently been observed targeting...
Cybercrime Groups ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider Join Forces in Extortion Attacks on Businesses
An ongoing data extortion campaign targeting Salesforce customers may soon turn its attention to financial services and technology service providers, as ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider appear to be working hand in hand, new findings show. "This latest wave of ShinyHunters-attributed attacks...
Google Confirms Salesforce Data Breach by ShinyHunters via Vishing Scam
Google confirms a data breach by ShinyHunters hackers, who used a vishing scam to access a Salesforce database with small business customer info...
Talking like a Phisher: LLM-Based Attacks on Voice Phishing Classifiers
Voice phishing vishing remains a persistent threat in cybersecurity, exploiting human trust through persuasive speech. While machine learning ML-based classifiers have shown promise in detecting malicious call transcripts, they remain vulnerable to adversarial manipulations that preserve semantic...
Arsen Launches AI-Powered Vishing Simulation to Help Organizations Combat Voice Phishing at Scale
Paris, France, 13th June 2025, CyberNewsWire...
Google Exposes Vishing Group UNC6040 Targeting Salesforce with Fake Data Loader App
Google has disclosed details of a financially motivated threat cluster that it said "specializes" in voice phishing aka vishing campaigns designed to breach organizations' Salesforce instances for large-scale data theft and subsequent extortion. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracki...
Scammers are using AI to impersonate senior officials, warns FBI
The FBI has issued a warning about an ongoing malicious text and voice messaging campaign that impersonates senior US officials. The targets are predominantly current or former US federal or state government officials and their contacts. In the course of this campaign, the cybercriminals have use...
FBI Warns of AI Voice Scams Impersonating US Govt Officials
FBI has warned about a sophisticated vishing and smishing campaign using AI-generated voice memos to impersonate senior US…...