Silent Ransom Group (SRG): Switching To DNS Fast Flux Infrastructure
Researchers exposed the Silent Ransom Group ‘s Fast Flux infrastructure as the FBI warns of ongoing attacks targeting U.S.
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Supreme Court rules FCC fines punishing telecom giants for sharing location data were legal
The Trump administration had backed the FCC’s position and, apart from Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court agreed.
Researcher Drops a New VS Code Zero-Day After Losing Trust in Microsoft’s Disclosure Process
A researcher publicly released a VS Code exploit within hours, citing past disputes with Microsoft over bug handling. The security researcher Ammar Askar fou...
Lessons from the Canvas cyberattack
Canvas cyberattack: Who, what, when, how? What and when?
ShinyHunters Leaks Charter Communications Data, Potentially Impacting 5 Million Customers
Cybercrime group ShinyHunters leaked data allegedly stolen from Charter Communications, exposing millions of customer records after a failed extortion attemp...
ChatGPT share links abused to host fake outage pages to deliver malware
Threat actors are abusing ChatGPT's content-sharing feature to display fake OpenAI outage pages that direct users to download malware disguised as the ChatGP...
Charter Communications data breach affects 4.9 million accounts
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from 4.9 million accounts after hacking the U.
The CISO Whisperer’s Watch List For The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026
New York, USA, May 28th, 2026, CyberNewswire TVC Analyst Group has released its list of twelve cybersecurity companies identified for their activity and posi...
The CISO Whisperer’s Watch List For The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026
New York, USA, 28th May 2026, CyberNewswire
Charter confirms data breach after ShinyHunters extortion threat
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GitHub Actions abused by Megalodon attack to slip malicious commits into 5,500 repos
A large-scale automated GitHub backdooring campaign was caught pushing thousands of malicious commits into public repositories while posing as routine CI/CD ...
Middle East malicious infrastructure report highlights concentration of C2 servers
The Hunt.io report identified over 1,350 C2 servers across 98 providers in 14 Middle Eastern countries.
Former executives plead guilty in global tech support fraud scheme
Former CEO Adam Young and former CSO Harrison Gevirtz admitted to a misprision of a felony charge. They operated C.
Hackers Exploit Middle East Telecoms for Massive C2 Operations
Hackers are increasingly abusing Middle East telecommunications networks and hosting providers to operate large-scale command-and-control (C2) infrastructure...
One Telecom Provider Hosted Most of the Middle East ’s Active C2 Infrastructure
Hunt.io mapped 1,350+ C2 servers across the Middle East, revealing how a small group of providers quietly supports major malware activity.
New Linux malware 'Showboat' targets Middle East telecom provider
Showboat is believed to be utilized by Chinese-affiliated threat actors, with command-and-control infrastructure linked to Chengdu, China.
Two Americans plead guilty to assisting India-based tech support scam centers
Adam Young, 42, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony after they were accused of offering phone numbers, call routing services, ...
Showboat Linux Malware Hits Middle East Telecom with SOCKS5 Proxy Backdoor
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to use in a campaign targeting a telecommunications...
Huawei zero-day flaw reportedly caused Luxembourg telecom outage
The outage was triggered by specially crafted network traffic that exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei enterprise routers, forcing them in...
Alleged Huawei zero-day blamed for the 2025 Luxembourg telecom crash
A Huawei zero-day flaw reportedly caused Luxembourg’s 2025 nationwide outage, disrupting landline, 4G/5G, and emergency services On July 23, 2025, a nationwi...