The FBI's 60-day Operation Riptide disrupted international cybercriminal networks, seizing millions in illicit funds and arresting key players in schemes that defrauded Americans and others worldwide.
Operation Riptide disrupted international cybercriminal networks, seizing millions in illicit funds and arresting key players in schemes that defrauded Americans and others worldwide. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI ) has completed a 60-day crackdown on cybercrime that resulted in arrests, cryptocurrency seizures, and the disruption of criminal networks defrauding Americans and laundering millions of dollars. Operation Riptide, launched in June, targeted cybercriminals, online fraud schemes, and digital infrastructure used against victims in the United States and abroad, with Americans losing more than $20 billion to cybercrime last year. DETAIL: FBI Director Kash Patel credited artificial…Open
Advisory at a Glance Title A Tale of Two SOCs: Insights From Two Red Team Assessments Original Publication August 25, 2026 Executive Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) conducted simultaneous red team assessments at two organizations and observed different defensive outcomes. In both environments, the red team achieved full domain compromise and accessed sensitive business systems (SBSs) and cloud resources. Organization A failed to detect or contain the activity, but Organization B rapidly identified initial compromise attempts, isolated affected systems, and forced the red team into an assume breach model. This advisory details the red team’s activity and organizations’ defensive actions, offering…
The Democratic National Committee wired nearly $29,000 to an email scammer pretending to be its own chairman, a loss that surfaced in federal records as the party already struggles under crushing debt and mounting calls for new leadership. A DNC staffer sent $28,860.92 to an unknown fraudster who impersonated newly installed Chairman Ken Martin via […] The post DNC fell for email scam, lost nearly $29,000 to fraudster posing as Chairman Ken Martin appeared first on American Almanac .
The Democratic National Committee wired nearly $29,000 to an email scammer pretending to be its own chairman, a loss that surfaced in federal records as the party already struggles under crushing debt and mounting calls for new leadership. A DNC staffer sent $28,860.92 to an unknown fraudster who impersonated newly installed Chairman Ken Martin via email in February 2025, just weeks after Martin took over the party apparatus. The committee caught the error "within minutes," Breitbart News reported , citing federal records and party official interviews first published by NOTUS. The DNC reported the incident to its bank, Wells Fargo, and recovered $7,000, leaving the party short more than $21,000 from a single phishing email. The staffer…Open
Russian State-Supported Cyber Actors Conduct Phishing Campaign Targeting Users of Zimbra Collaboration Suite Executive summary A group of Russian state-supported cyber actors has been targeting and compromising various Western government and commercial organizations using the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) software since at least July 2025. The Russian state-supported advanced persistent threat (APT) group’s activity is tracked in the cybersecurity community under several names (see Cybersecurity industry tracking ), primarily as “LAUNDRY BEAR,” a name initially coined by the Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and Defence Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) [1 ]. LAUNDRY BEAR’s targeting is…
GLM-5.2 — the latest Chinese open-source model capturing Silicon Valley's attention — is raising fresh concerns among security researchers that advanced AI hacking capabilities are becoming dramatically cheaper and more accessible. Why it matters: The barrier to entry for malicious hackers eager to automate and personalize their attacks is getting lower and lower. Driving the news: Z.ai's GLM-5.2, which was released last week, has agentic capabilities that rival those of Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 while costing roughly half as much to run. - Two separate security evaluations from Graphistry and Semgrep found that GLM-5.2 performed on par with leading U.S. models on cybersecurity investigation and vulnerability-discovery…
Meta has filed for a federal court contempt order against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, alleging it violated a permanent injunction by targeting WhatsApp users.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has filed for a federal court contempt order against NSO Group, accusing the Israeli spyware firm of violating a permanent injunction by targeting WhatsApp users. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - The injunction was initially put in place to prevent NSO from engaging in activities that threaten national security or foreign policy interests. DETAIL: Meta reports that it disrupted new “spear phishing” attempts linked to NSO, which involved “1-click phishing campaigns” designed to trick users into clicking malicious links. “No technology is off-limits to surveillance-for-hire firms, whose reported targets range from journalists to government officials, military…Open
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"The campaign targets individuals of high intelligence value, including current and former U.S. government officials, military personnel, political figures, and journalists," Patel says.
