The Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act (GUARD) attempts to address a common complaint from the victims of online scams like pig butchering — that such cases typically do not rise to the level of a federal investigation but local law enforcement is unequipped to properly investigate them.
Ukraine’s parliament has approved tougher criminal penalties for involvement in fraudulent call centers and the theft of personal data, following a corruption scandal in which prosecutors were accused of taking bribes to protect scam operations.
The sites are designed to collect victims’ contact details, which scammers then use to target them through phone or email to steal money, personal information or gain access to their devices.
As the cyber scam industry expands globally, the U.S. government wants banks to share more information about what's happening to their customers.
Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, resigned this week over allegations that officials in his office took bribes to shield scam call centers from law enforcement.
Cisco Talos began an investigation after observing a DLL named "verification.google" executing from WebDAV at a Ukrainian government organization. We assess with moderate confidence that the attacks are not targeted at a particular organization, but are a part of a cryptocurrency and credentials-stealing operation using the Amatera stealer as the primary payload. Pivoting around the similar WebDAV behavior led to a second loader named "pf.ch" and allowed us to reconstruct its earlier delivery…
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.K.'s National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecutor signed a memorandum to cooperate on cases involving Southeast Asian scam operations.
Research by: Amit Yardeni Key Points A Chinese-speaking actor is now targeting Brazil. Check Point Research has uncovered a sustained campaign against Brazilian organizations, primarily government and educational institutions since mid-2025. We dubbed this group Gambling Goblin: a Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster connected to a previously documented group, Earth Berberoka, that targeted gambling sites across Asia. It marks a shift from Brazil’s usual home-grown banking-trojan threats to a…
CISA added CVE-2022-0995 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Affected product: Linux Kernel. Remediation due date: 2026-09-09.
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