For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 2nd November, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Binance, a global cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered a cyberattack resulting in the theft of approximately $6.3 billion in digital assets. Attackers reportedly compromised a DevOps engineer’s laptop and abused internal wallet infrastructure to authorize unauthorized withdrawals. The incident ranks among the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever…
Serial number: AV26-028 Date: October 28, 2026 Audience This Alert is intended for IT professionals and managers. Purpose An Alert is used to raise awareness of a recently identified cyber threat that may impact cyber information assets, and to provide additional detection and mitigation advice to recipients. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security ("Cyber Centre") is also available to provide additional assistance regarding the content of this Alert to recipients as requested. Details The…
A Nigerian national who worked with a group to hack tax prep businesses and conduct millions of dollars in fraud using customer data was sentenced this week.
A wave of cyberattacks targeting organizations in Japan and financial institutions in South Korea has resulted in widespread data exposure and prompted urgent government responses. In Japan, more than 20 major companies across multiple sectors have reported incidents, potentia...
Only days after Revolut acknowledged that it disclosed sensitive customer records to an unauthorized party, affected customers are receiving phishing texts. However, we don’t know yet if the phishing texts are linked to the breach. The company had accepted fraudulent information requests sent from an email address on a legitimate government agency domain. Through this social engineering attack, rather than by gaining access to Revolut’s systems, the criminals obtained the following types of…
British fintech Revolut confirmed disclosing sensitive customer data to fraudsters who submitted emergency data requests from a legitimate government email account.
Revolut has acknowledged that it disclosed sensitive customer records to an unauthorized party. The company had accepted fraudulent information requests sent from an email address on a legitimate government agency domain, according to TechCrunch. Revolut is a London-based banking and financial platform with more than 80 million customers globally, according to the company. Revolut describes this as an external impersonation scam, not an intrusion into its systems. It also says customer funds…
Fintech company Revolut has disclosed a data breach after sharing data from an undisclosed number of customers with a threat actor impersonating a government agency. [...]
An attacker breached an email marketing platform and launched targeted attacks against the newsletter subscribers of some of its customers, especially those working in cryptocurrency and adjacent fields. The incident was a supply-chain phishing campaign carried out through Brevo, an email marketing provider used by several cryptocurrency companies and other firms. Brevo initially said an attacker had gained access to 120 customer accounts, some of which were used to send phishing emails to the…
Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link. [...]
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor says an August data breach at its shipping and logistics provider, ShipMonk, affects an additional 67,000 U.S. customers. [...]
IntroductionDespite modern verification controls, identity theft remains one of the most pervasive threats to both individuals and enterprise organizations. U.S. Federal Trade Commission statistics show over 1 million identity theft reports annually, with related fraud and imposter scams accounting for billions in financial losses each year. While stolen credit cards enable rapid, short-term monetization, Social Security numbers (SSNs) represent a far more permanent and dangerous tier within…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Minnesota IT Services has confirmed coordinated cyberattacks affecting more than 30 community water utilities across the state. The incidents briefly disrupted a treatment plant in Braham and affected industrial control systems. Officials reported that drinking water safety was not affected. While the attack was not officially attributed, federal…
TrendAI™ Research has identified two emerging threat campaigns—SHADOW-AETHER-040 and SHADOW-AETHER-064—that use agentic AI to drive intrusion operations against government and financial organizations in Latin America, marking these among the first cases we have observed of AI agents executing attacks from initial access to data exfiltration.