A vulnerability in a popular line of products from Oracle is being used in a new campaign by the prolific ShinyHunters hacking group, which recently claimed credit for an attack on the FBI’s jobs site.
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members dramatically escalated their attacks, stealing highly sensitive data from the FBI and extorting the Russian ransomware group Cl0p.
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 28th September, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES The FBI has confirmed unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov after the ShinyHunters group defaced the website. The group claimed to have stolen employee and applicant information and shared samples of purported FBI personnel […] The post 28th September – Threat Intelligence Report appeared first on Check Point Research.
Two executives at a data extraction and digital forensics company that sold several U.S. agencies its software were arrested for allegedly lying about the fact that its technology is made in Russia.
Revision 4 of NIST’s operational technology security guide is open for public comments until November 30. The post OT Security Guidance: NIST Drafts Updated Guide, CISA/FBI Advise on ICS Integrators appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The ShinyHunters cybercriminal organization on Tuesday replaced agency images on the FBIjobs.gov site with a photo of a Pokemon that has become the group’s defacto mascot.
ShinyHunters claims FBI breach via PeopleSoft zero-day, steals staff data; FBI investigating, no confirmation yet. The popular cybercrime group ShinyHunters is claiming that it breached the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and stole sensitive information belonging to FBI employees and job applicants. The group says the operation was not financially motivated and was instead […]
Latvian police arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of hacking at least two companies, stealing personal information and attempting to extort money from the victims.
The cybercrime group is unhappy with its description in an FBI report and threatens to leak stolen information. The post ShinyHunters Claims FBI Hack, Demands Retraction of Threat Report appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The cyber extortion group known as ShinyHunters on Tuesday claimed it had breached the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and stolen data belonging to current and former employees at the agency. "We have compromised the FBI. We hold very sensitive data on almost ALL FBI Agents and individuals who filed an application with the FBI for a job," the group said in a statement posted on their dark
Microsoft seized 50 websites and disabled more than 150 domains as part of a coordinated disruption effort against a phishing-as-a-service platform targeting Microsoft 365 accounts.
The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it breached FBI systems using a new Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day vulnerability, gaining access to internal services and stealing sensitive data on employees and job applicants. [...]
Available on Telegram for a $1,500 initiation fee and a recurring monthly $500 subscription, EvilTokens provided cybercriminals with artificial intelligence tools enabling them to compromise accounts, analyze breached inboxes and find the best methods for monetizing their access through fraud.
North Korea-linked WaterPlum runs the Contagious Interview campaign, infecting over 30,000 devices using a fake job interview. On September 18, Japan’s National Police Agency, the FBI, the US Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center, and intelligence agencies from Australia and Germany published a joint advisory about a group called WaterPlum, better known as Contagious Interview. […]
The FBI's CJIS Security Policy v6.1 strengthens requirements around encryption and vulnerability scanning while continuing the shift toward more continuous security assessment. Specops explains what changed and how agencies can address password, MFA, and identity requirements as they prepare for upcoming audits. [...]
The FBI and Defense Department partnered with Japan’s National Police Agency and law enforcement agencies in Australia and Germany on a new advisory about “WaterPlum” — a group of cyber actors allegedly stealing cryptocurrency from job applicants by posing as AI or blockchain companies.
Cyberattacks on oil tankers show how connected ships can expose navigation and critical systems, threatening safety, ports and global trade. U.S. Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded two Texas‑bound energy tankers last month after cyberattacks hit the vessels while they were underway, according to U.S. officials. One of the ships was the VL Prosperity, […]
The Coast Guard confirmed evidence of malicious cyber activity on the VL Prosperity, but has not attributed the attack to Iran. The post Cyberattacks on Two Oil Tankers Prompt Coast Guard, FBI to Board Vessels appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The DOJ seized domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service tied to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF. Renting a DDoS attack used to be as easy as renting a movie. Pick a target, pay a few dollars, watch the site go dark. The Justice Department just made that a […]
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized the domains used by NightmareStresser, one of the world's longest-running distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms. [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the court-authorized seizure of internet domains associated with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire service known as NightmareStresser. The domains in question are: nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org. Visitors to the sites are now greeted by a seizure banner that states - "This domain has been seized by
U.S. personnel boarded an oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico to “ensure integrity of the vessel’s operational and information technology systems," after an apparent cyberattack, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
US, UK, and Dutch government agencies published a report detailing the malware, and the FBI described the abuse of Telegram for C&C. The post US, UK, Dutch Agencies Expose Iranian ‘Chosen Brick’ Surveillance Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The notorious Russian threat group is spreading an upgraded version of the botnet malware, which the FBI disrupted in 2022.
Bulletin ID: 2026-108-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 09/11/2026 09:00 AM PDT Description: projen is an open-source tool for defining and synthesizing software project configurations as code. AWS identified two issues in projen affecting the generated file manifest cleanup component and the task synthesis component. - CVE-2026-89065 — Relative path traversal in the generated file manifest cleanup component in projen before 0.101.37 might allow conte…
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after he was arrested in Ireland in 2023. The post Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, and deploying the Scam Center Strike Force to Madagascar to help disrupt 13 scam compounds run by Chinese organized crime
US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of extracting billions of tokens from US AI models to accelerate development and copy advanced capabilities. NSA, CISA, and the FBI jointly published an advisory accusing six Chinese AI companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, of running industrial-scale extraction campaigns against US frontier models since […]
The first public cybersecurity strategy issued by the FBI "directs our teams, our field offices, our global presence" to align their efforts on countering malicious hackers and cybercrime groups, senior official Brett Leatherman says.
Malone Lam was indicted on scamming charges in September 2024 after drawing law enforcement scrutiny for parlaying stolen crypto into lavish Hamptons vacations, cars and private jets.
