Legitimate infrastructure has become a powerful delivery mechanism for attackers, carrying the inherent trust they once had to build. As Cisco Talos explored in our previous research on weaponizing software-as-a-service (SaaS) notification pipelines, these platforms are increasingly repurposed as proxies for malicious intent. Talos has since tracked a significant acceleration in this trend, observing abuse across more than 25 distinct legitimate platforms in the past year. The abused…
The customer data stolen from global fashion retailer ASOS includes more than just names and contact details, raising questions about its early reassurances. As we reported earlier this week, ASOS customers received a push notification through the ASOS app alleging that the company had been hacked. ASOS has confirmed that attackers accessed customer information after tricking an employee into handing over login credentials. While the retailer says payment card information and customer passwords…
ASOS is sending updates to affected customers about the cybersecurity incident it suffered earlier this week, confirming that hackers accessed some personal data. [...]
Milk Dragon, also known as NaiLong is an Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing kit active since October 2025. Unlike conventional phishing tactics that rely on fear and urgency, Milk Dragon lures victims with big discounts on consumer goods distributed via Facebook and TikTok marketplace advertisements.
Milk Dragon, also known as NaiLong is an Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing kit active since October 2025. Unlike conventional phishing tactics that rely on fear and urgency, Milk Dragon lures victims with big discounts on consumer goods distributed via Facebook and TikTok marketplace advertisements.
Bitrefill is a legitimate company that sells gift cards for popular stores like Amazon, Deliveroo, Apple, Nintendo, and thousands of others. They also sell eSIMs, and mobile top-ups. You can pay on their website for all of these with cryptocurrency. The scam is designed to catch people searching for Bitrefill or something it sells, like a gift card. Victims see a search result that appears to lead to Bitrefill but actually points to a lookalike domain. The fake site then takes them through what…
Researchers at German cybersecurity company Nebty have identified “DoppelCart,” a cluster of almost 119,000 domains linked to copied online stores. The researchers describe it as the largest publicly documented fake-shop network by associated domain count. They found 118,787 .shop domains in the cluster, representing 2.72% of the .shop top-level domain (TLD) population they examined. The operation copies legitimate retailers’ product catalogs, descriptions, branding, and images, sometimes even…
Introduction Beginning in 2024 Mandiant investigated a string of compromises affecting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks this activity as BREEZE COMET (formerly UNC5669), a financially motivated threat actor specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers. This activity overlaps with operations publicly reported as Plump Spider and SHADOW-AETHER-064. In…