ATT-Social manip

04
Sep
New Name, Same Playbook: How a Vishing Crew Climbed From Retail to Wall Street in 18 Months- 307

New Name, Same Playbook: How a Vishing Crew Climbed From Retail to Wall Street in 18 Months- 307

August 11, 2026 A criminal group that spent early 2025 attacking retail and hospitality chains does not, under ordinary circumstances,
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04
Sep
The Whole Pipeline: How Breached Data Becomes Cash, Leverage, and Sextortion Material- 306

The Whole Pipeline: How Breached Data Becomes Cash, Leverage, and Sextortion Material- 306

August 13, 2026 A data breach is usually reported as a single event — a company discloses an intrusion, a number
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04
Sep
The Authentic Trap: How H1 2026's Scam Campaigns Learned to Borrow Trust Instead of Faking It- 305

The Authentic Trap: How H1 2026's Scam Campaigns Learned to Borrow Trust Instead of Faking It- 305

August 15, 2026 Security vendors publish threat reports constantly, and most of them read the same way: a pie chart
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04
Sep
One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

August 8, 2026 It would be easier to track North Korea's state-linked cyber activity if it all
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27
Aug
Ship First, Secure Later: AI Productivity Tools Are Outrunning Their Own Guardrails- 300

Ship First, Secure Later: AI Productivity Tools Are Outrunning Their Own Guardrails- 300

August 10, 2026 In the first half of 2026 alone, ESET's researchers catalogued nearly 900,000 distinct "
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27
Aug
Borrowed Trust: How Moscow Turns Everyday Software Into an Access Network- 296

Borrowed Trust: How Moscow Turns Everyday Software Into an Access Network- 296

August 5, 2026 A fake job offer, a hijacked hotel Wi-Fi login, a criminal marketplace listing, and an advertising
6 min read
03
Aug
Tax season as an attack surface: how a suspected Chinese hacking cluster is running parallel RAT campaigns across India, Japan, and China- 283

Tax season as an attack surface: how a suspected Chinese hacking cluster is running parallel RAT campaigns across India, Japan, and China- 283

July 7, 2026 A suspected China-nexus threat cluster has spent the current Indian tax filing season running a precisely-
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21
Jul
Digital Growth, Deepening Exposure: Nigeria's Race to Regulate a Rising Cybercrime Economy- 263

Digital Growth, Deepening Exposure: Nigeria's Race to Regulate a Rising Cybercrime Economy- 263

July 18, 2o26 Nigeria's fraud statistics tell an uncomfortable story about the relationship between reported incident volume and
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21
Jul
Following the Money: Inside the Takedown of a €140 Million Iberian Fraud Network- 262

Following the Money: Inside the Takedown of a €140 Million Iberian Fraud Network- 262

July 17, 2026 Spain's national police disrupted, on July 13, a criminal network whose scale illustrates a pattern
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21
Jul
Past the Perimeter: Why Identity, Not Exploits, Now Drives Ransomware- 261

Past the Perimeter: Why Identity, Not Exploits, Now Drives Ransomware- 261

July 17, 2026 For three consecutive years, unpatched vulnerabilities held the dubious distinction of being ransomware's most common
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