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Officials accused three Russian nationals, Media Land and ML.Cloud of supporting cyberattacks spanning 21 U.S. states and other countries, resulting in losses surpassing $62 million. The post Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime appeared first on CyberScoop.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

The first ThreatsDay Bulletin of 2026 lands on a day that already feels symbolic — new year, new breaches, new tricks. If the past twelve months taught defenders anything, it’s that threat actors don’t pause for holidays or resolutions. They just evolve faster. This week’s round-up shows how subtle shifts in behavior, from code tweaks to job scams, are rewriting what “cybercrime” looks like in

Don't let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…

Since December 2023, the threat group has preyed on domains belonging to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and numerous other reputable organizations worldwide to redirect users to malicious sites.

The Nemesis and ShinyHunters attackers scanned millions of IP addresses to find exploitable cloud-based flaws, though their operation ironically was discovered due to a cloud misconfiguration of their own doing.

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m -- remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person's identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m's daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers. One of the brothers is facing life in prison for allegedly seeking to kill people with his attacks.

More Victims of Campaign Against Data Warehousing Platform Snowflake Come to LightAdd luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus and the Los Angeles Unified School District to the list of known victims of a cybercrime that accessed accounts at cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake. Other victims include Santander Bank and Live Nation Entertainment's Ticketmaster.

The findings from Netskope also show a shift in the retail sector’s use of cloud applications

.SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife Scammers are buying up cheap domain names to host sites that sell dodgy health products using fake articles, according to cybercrime disruption outfit Netcraft.…

Admins need to patch immediately, as the prolific cybercrime group pivots from cryptomining to going after cloud secrets and credentials.

Cybercrime group that often uses smishing for initial access bypassed traditional OS targeting and evasion techniques to directly gain access to the cloud.

Mandiant identifies 'moderately sophisticated' but 'prolific' APT43 as global menace Google Cloud's recently acquired security outfit Mandiant has named a new nasty from North Korea: a cyber crime gang it calls APT43 and accuses of a five-year rampage.…

Cloud containers are increasingly part of the cybercrime playbook, with researchers flagging ongoing scanning for Docker weaknesses along with rapid exploitation to infect systems with coin-miners, denial-of-service tools, and ransomware.