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'Payroll pirate' hackers diverting salary payments from university employees, Microsoft says

Storm-2657 is targeting U.S. universities to hijack employee payroll accounts. At least 11 accounts across three universities were compromised to send phishing emails to nearly 6,000 recipients across 25 universities.

Russian regional airline disrupted by suspected cyberattack

A suspected cyberattack has disrupted digital services at KrasAvia, a regional Russian airline, marking another incident in a growing trend of cyber operations targeting the Russian aviation sector.

BreachForums administrator given three-year prison stint after resentencing

Conor Fitzpatrick, the founder and lead administrator of the notorious cybercrime marketplace BreachForums, has been resentenced to three years in prison following a judicial review that overturned a controversial early release.

Vietnam, Panama governments suffer incidents leaking citizen data

In Vietnam, the CIC was breached, with attackers claiming to have stolen 160 million records. In Panama, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) was targeted by the INC ransomware group, which claims to have exfiltrated 1.5 TB of data.

Cyberattacks against schools driven by a rise in student hackers, ICO warns

The ICO analyzed 215 insider threat breach reports from the education sector between January 2022 and August 2024 and identified a pattern of student involvement in cyber incidents. Approximately 57% of these breaches were caused by students.

European crypto platform SwissBorg to reimburse users after $41 million theft

SwissBorg, a European cryptocurrency platform, has announced that it will fully reimburse users affected by a recent cyber incident that resulted in the theft of approximately $41 million worth of Solana (SOL) tokens.

Feds seek to claim $5 million in bitcoin taken in SIM swaps

The DOJ is pursuing civil forfeiture of approximately $5 million in Bitcoin stolen through SIM swapping attacks. These attacks targeted five victims, exploiting mobile phone number hijacking to gain unauthorized access to cryptowallets.

Two arrested in Egypt as authorities take down Streameast sports piracy platform

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) said it worked with Egyptian authorities to shut down the piracy network — which had more than 80 associated domains and logged more than 1.6 billion visits over the past year.

CISA orders federal agencies to patch Sitecore zero-day following hacking reports

Federal civilian agencies have until September 25 to patch a vulnerability in popular content management system Sitecore after incident responders said they disrupted a recent attack involving the bug.

'SEO fraud-as-a-service' scheme hijacks Windows servers to promote gambling websites

A newly identified threat actor group, GhostRedirector, has launched a global "SEO fraud-as-a-service" campaign targeting Windows servers to promote gambling websites. The campaign leverages two custom backdoors - Rungan and Gamshen.

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