crdcrew 2026

A zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome, exploited in Operation ForumTroll earlier this year, delivered malware linked to Italian spyware vendor Memento Labs, born after IntheCyber Group acquired the infamous Hacking Team. Operation ForumTroll was uncovered by Kaspersky in March. The campaign...

The Qilin ransomware operation was spotted executing Linux encryptors in Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to evade detection by traditional security tools. The ransomware first launched as "Agenda" in August 2022, rebranding to Qilin by September and continuing to operate under...

China-linked cyber-espionage actors tracked as 'Bronze Butler' (Tick) exploited a Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager vulnerability as a zero-day to deploy an updated version of their Gokcpdoor malware.The discovery of this activity comes from Sophos researchers, who observed the threat actors...

Hackers are abusing LinkedIn to target finance executives with direct-message phishing attacks that impersonate executive board invitations, aiming to steal their Microsoft credentials. The campaign was spotted by Push Security, which says it recently blocked one of these phishing attacks that...

International authorities have dismantled three massive credit card fraud and money laundering networks, linked to losses exceeding €300 million ($344 million) and affecting over 4.3 million cardholders across 193 countries. The November 4th joint action, dubbed "Operation Chargeback," included...

Over the weekend, Google's threat intelligence team linked five more Chinese hacking groups to attacks exploiting the maximum-severity "React2Shell" remote code execution vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-55182, this actively exploited flaw affects the React open-source JavaScript library and...

A ransomware gang claims it has stolen nearly a terabyte of McDonald’s data in India and is counting down to a public leak. The notorious Russia-linked ransomware gang that last year froze European airports has expanded its list of victims. A notice posted on the dark web on January 20th...

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says that Russian hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a recently patched vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office. On January 26, Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band security update marking CVE-2026-21509 as an actively...

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. The company's data breach confirmation comes as a threat actor named FulcrumSec leaked 2GB of files on various...

Austrian and Albanian authorities dismantled a criminal ring accused of running a large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud operation that caused estimated losses of over €50 million ($58.5 million) to victims worldwide. The joint action, which started in June 2023 and was supported by Europol...

More than 200 individuals were arrested for cybercrime activities during INTERPOL's Operation Ramz, which focused on the Middle East and North Africa. Law enforcement also identified another 382 suspects across 13 countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman...

A virtual private network service called 'First VPN,' used in ransomware and data theft attacks, has been taken offline in a joint international law enforcement operation. Authorities have seized dozens of First VPN servers located in 27 countries, arrested the administrator, and conducted a...

Financial crime investigators in the Netherlands (FIOD) arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a web hosting company that enabled cyberattacks, interference operations, and disinformation campaigns. FIOD arrested a 57-year-old suspect, who was the company director, and a 39-year-old...

U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the KimWolf distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet, which infected nearly two million devices worldwide. 23-year-old Jacob Butler (also known online as "Dort") was arrested by Canadian authorities in Ottawa on...

A supply chain attack targeting the Laravel Lang localization packages has exposed developers to a sophisticated credential-stealing malware campaign after attackers abused GitHub version tags to distribute malicious code through Composer packages. Security firms StepSecurity, Aikido Security...

A new Magecart campaign is using Stripe's API infrastructure to host the credit card-stealing payload and the data exfiltrated from checkout pages. The entire malicious activity relies on Google Tag Manager and Stripe domains - googletagmanager.com and api.stripe.com - that are trusted...

Authorities believe that phishing campaigns powered by Outsider Enterprise led to stealing more than 3.8 million credit card records, causing an estimated $1.9 billion in losses. The action against Outsider Enterprise has technical and legal components and is part of the FBI's larger Operation...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has seized the CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com websites, which allegedly hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in what appears to be the first publicly announced domain seizure under the TAKE IT DOWN Act. According to...

Threat actors are abusing Steam Workshop, Valve's community hub for downloading game-related content, to push various malware hidden in wallpaper packages. Infected wallpapers can lead to hijacking Steam accounts, compromising the system with a backdoor, or running cryptomining processes. Steam...

A new Android banking trojan named Rokarolla is targeting 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications using an extensive set of 137 commands. The malware is distributed via malicious websites purporting to provide the Google Chrome or TikTok app, and can take complete administrative control of a...