All news in category “Incidents and Data Breaches”

🔍 New research from CloudSEK reveals Operation Escaneo, a coordinated campaign targeting government and financial entities across Latin America after attackers left a staging server exposed. The group exploited internet-facing appliances and known vulnerabilities in Fortinet and Ivanti devices, plus Apache Tomcat, Windows, and Log4Shell flaws. Attackers used custom reconnaissance (Kimera), webshells, reverse tunnels and a compromised Cisco router to exfiltrate large volumes of sensitive data.

🔒 Researchers have uncovered a large credential-compromise campaign called Fortibleed that exposed tens of thousands of Fortinet FortiGate devices worldwide. Analysis by SOCRadar, Hudson Rock, and independent researchers found stolen configuration files, administrator and SSL VPN credentials, and tooling used to automate collection and cracking. Affected devices span 194 countries, with roughly 75,000 devices reportedly compromised, prompting urgent remediation advice including credential rotation and upgrading to modern FortiOS hashes.

🔎 ESET researchers detail the EDR-killing toolset used by the ransomware-as-a-service gang Gentlemen, which rose to prominence in early 2026. The group provides affiliates with an operator-maintained suite centered on an in-house framework dubbed GentleKiller plus integrated third-party tools like HexKiller and HavocKiller. A May 2026 internal leak and long-term incident visibility enabled deep linkage between leaked data, actual samples, and the gang’s TTPs.

🛡️ Richard Horne, CEO of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, told the RUSI Annual Security Lecture that three-quarters of cyber incidents affecting UK critical national infrastructure over the past year were traced to nation-state actors or hostile states. The NCSC handled around 200 incidents between June 2025 and May 2026, with threats described across three contested digital spaces: far, mid and near. Horne warned that AI and cloud supply-chain exploitation increase attacker scale and urged organisations to prioritise continuous defence, fix legacy vulnerabilities and close IT-OT knowledge gaps.

🛡️ Check Point Research found a coordinated campaign using paid posts, fake accounts, and a WordPress phishing hub to promote malicious warez. The operators pushed a Rust-based clipboard hijacker hidden in Solana and sniper bot packages targeting Windows and macOS, replacing crypto wallet addresses to steal funds. They used GitHub, SourceForge, YouTube, VirusTotal manipulation, and press release services to fabricate trust and inflate metrics.

🔒 A newly discovered data leak called FortiBleed appears to expose Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs worldwide. Researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a server containing usernames, emails, and plaintext passwords and linked the collection to a Russian-speaking multi-operator group that performed massive credential harvesting and cracking. Hudson Rock and other researchers validated the dataset, noting impacts across many industries and countries, and urged affected organizations to rotate credentials and enforce MFA.

🛡️ New research from Group-IB describes the GitBait campaign, a multi-year phishing operation targeting Mexican banks that used GitHub Pages for hosting and SheetBest to exfiltrate credentials into Google Sheets. The operation relied on modular phishing kits, automated publishing, and crafted Open Graph tags to spread links via messaging apps while evading search indexing. Group-IB reported over 100 GitHub-hosted domains and urges banks to monitor brand abuse and suspicious traffic to cloud services.

📰 India blocked Telegram until June 22 after leaked exam materials circulated on the platform, prompting Telegram CEO Pavel Durov to allege BGP hijacking by Reliance that affected users as far as the UAE. The ban, and an additional restriction on message editing, prompted legal challenges and criticism from digital-rights groups calling the move disproportionate. Analysts confirmed a routing leak from AS18101 via FLAG Telecom but dispute claims of deliberate sabotage; MTProto proxies are recommended to restore access.

🔍 Check Point Research uncovered a coordinated campaign that built a cross-platform false reputation to push a crypto clipboard hijacker. The actor used WordPress phishing hubs, multiple GitHub and SourceForge projects, AI-narrated YouTube tutorials, and forum posts to manufacture trust and inflate engagement. The campaign targeted Windows and macOS, including a macOS persistence mechanism, and manipulated reputation systems like VirusTotal to make malicious files appear safe.

🛡️ Multiple npm packages under the @mastra/* namespace were mass-published with a malicious dependency on June 16–17, 2026, enabling a supply-chain campaign named easy-day-js. The injected library, easy-day-js, executes an obfuscated postinstall payload that downloads a second-stage trojan from attacker infrastructure and disables TLS validation. Victims should treat any systems that installed the affected versions as potentially compromised, roll back to safe releases, rotate secrets, and audit hosts for signs of the stealer.

🔒 Kodak has confirmed an investigation after an unauthorized third party gained temporary access to a limited amount of company data. The company engaged external cybersecurity experts and is working with law enforcement, asserting there is no threat to systems or operations. The ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed responsibility, alleging over 2.2 million records were stolen and threatening to leak the data.

🛡️ A coordinated campaign on the JetBrains Marketplace used at least 15 malicious IDE plugins to exfiltrate developers' AI provider API keys. Discovered by Aikido Security, the plugins—posing as AI assistants, code-review tools, and Git utilities—sent keys to a hardcoded server when users clicked "Apply" after entering credentials. Published from October 2025 through June 2026, these plugins were installed nearly 70,000 times and remain available on the Marketplace at the time of reporting.

🛡️ A new Android banking trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and supports 137 commands. Distributed via malicious sites posing as Chrome or TikTok installers, it requests Accessibility and other sensitive permissions to gain near-complete control of infected devices. Researchers at Zimperium report it harvests SMS, contacts, keystrokes, screenshots, and lock-screen credentials while displaying phishing overlays and disabling protections like Google Play Protect.

🛡️ Researchers at Kaspersky report threat actors abusing Steam Workshop to distribute malware via the Wallpaper Engine app. Attackers upload malicious application-type wallpapers that execute payloads when installed, leading to account theft, backdoors, miners, and information stealers. Valve removed the identified items, but users are advised to only download from trusted creators and scan Workshop content with up-to-date antivirus.

🛡️ Multiple ClickFix campaigns have been linked to three distinct loaders — BabaDeda Loader, Lorem Ipsum Loader, and Potemkin — delivering information stealers, backdoors, RATs, and other payloads against diverse sectors. The attacks rely on social-engineered ClickFix lures that trick victims into running PowerShell or command sequences, then use staged techniques such as hidden PowerShell, DLL side-loading, in-memory shellcode, and external payload storage to evade detection. Researchers from Morphisec, BlueVoyant, and Huntress attribute the campaigns to evolving, modular loader frameworks that separate delivery, storage, execution, and payload deployment for greater stealth.

📰 The FTC reports Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with these schemes comprising nearly one in three fraud reports. Scammers used texts, calls, emails, social media, and search results, with social platforms driving over $2.1 billion in losses. Business and government impersonators caused the largest harms, and the FTC has pursued enforcement under its Impersonation Rule to seek redress.

🔒 Researchers have detailed Rokarolla, an Android banking trojan that not only steals credentials but effectively seizes control of phones to isolate victims from banks. The malware spreads via fake sites posing as TikTok or Chrome and uses a dropper impersonating Google Play Protect to install a second-stage payload. Rokarolla abuses Android Accessibility Services, makes itself the default call and SMS handler, hides its icon, mutes alerts and captures screenshots and overlays fake login screens to harvest bank and crypto credentials.

🔒 Google warns that a China-associated threat actor, UNC6508, ran a prolonged espionage campaign targeting US and Canadian research environments by abusing legacy versions of REDCap. The attackers trojanized upgrade processes with modular malware called INFINITERED to achieve persistence, harvest credentials, and maintain a backdoor. GTIG recommends inspecting REDCap files, validating upgrades, and enforcing stronger authentication and DLP controls.

🔒 Researchers report that DragonForce operators covertly used Microsoft Teams TURN relay servers to mask command-and-control traffic while infiltrating a major US services firm during a 2025 campaign. The attackers deployed a Go-based RAT, named Backdoor.Turn, which obtained anonymous Teams visitor tokens and established QUIC sessions to attacker-controlled servers. They also exploited an undocumented Huawei driver vulnerability and modified system settings to maintain persistence, exfiltrate data and deploy DragonForce ransomware.

📷 Multiple instances nationwide show police using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk individuals. Reports indicate over a dozen cases where the system has been misapplied, raising privacy and civil rights concerns. The pattern highlights how persistent surveillance technologies can be abused without adequate oversight. Flock deployments and law enforcement practices are facing increased scrutiny.