Month: April 2026

The Spanish police have dismantled what they claim is the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, operating since 2014 and serving millions of monthly users worldwide. Manga is the Japanese term for comics and graphic novels, typically referring to those created in Japan and widely read around the world. The manga piracy platform, which wasn’t named in […]

Fraudulent phone calls have become a daily reality for millions of people worldwide. From fake law enforcement officials to bank representatives and impersonated tech support agents, victims are increasingly targeted through direct, real-time conversations designed to create urgency accompanied by high psychological pressure to extract sensitive information or money theft. Reports show that this type […]

A previously undocumented data-wiping malware dubbed Lotus was used last year in targeted attacks against energy and utilities organizations in Venezuela. The malware was uploaded to a publicly available platform in mid-December from a machine in Venezuela and has been analyzed by researchers at Kaspersky. Before the cripling stage, the attacker relies on two batch […]

Fraud prevention and user experience have long been treated as opposing forces: tighten security, and you risk alienating legitimate customers; loosen it, and you open the door to account takeovers, synthetic identities, and payment fraud. But modern threat intelligence platforms are dismantling that false choice. Today’s most effective fraud prevention strategies operate silently in the […]

Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s independent communications regulator, has launched an investigation into Telegram based on evidence suggesting it’s being used to share child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The investigation was launched under the UK’s Online Safety Act to examine whether the social media and instant messaging (IM) service is complying with its illegal content safety […]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given government agencies four days to secure their systems against another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability it flagged as actively exploited in attacks. Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly known as vManage) is a network management software that helps admins monitor and manage up to 6,000 Catalyst SD-WAN devices […]

State-sponsored North Korean hackers are likely behind the $290 million crypto-heist that impacted the KelpDAO DeFi project on Saturday. The attack reportedly also impacted the lending protocols Compound, Euler, and Aave, with the latter announcing a freeze and blocking new deposits or borrowing using rsETH as collateral. KelpDAO is a decentralized finance (DeFi) project built […]

A SystemBC proxy malware botnet of more than 1,570 hosts, believed to be corporate victims, has been discovered following an investigation into a Gentlemen ransomware attack carried out by a gang affiliate. The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation emerged around mid-2025 and provides a Go-based locker that can encrypt Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems, and a […]