A surge in social engineering scams is targeting international students in the US. These scams impersonate government officials, police, or university staff to coerce victims into disclosing sensitive information or making payments.

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.

The campaign leverages compromised Discord accounts to send direct messages asking users to test a game. Victims are redirected to convincing fake game pages hosted on Blogspot subdomains or cloud services.

Western Sydney University has been targeted in a widespread phishing scam involving fraudulent emails sent to students and alumni. These emails falsely claimed that recipients’ degrees had been revoked.

A phishing campaign is targeting cryptocurrency users by impersonating the Best Wallet app. The attackers aim to steal wallet credentials, private keys, and seed phrases by luring victims to a fake website that closely mimics the legitimate platform.

Attackers used social engineering methods to lure targets into joining fake Facebook groups that appeared to promote travel and community activities—such as trips, dance classes, and community gatherings.

The first half of 2025 witnessed a surge in AI-powered cryptocurrency scams, resulting in over $3.01 billion in stolen assets. These scams leverage artificial intelligence to automate and scale phishing, impersonation, and malware distribution.

A large-scale mobile ad fraud operation dubbed SlopAds exploited 224 Android apps, amassing over 38 million downloads across 228 countries. The campaign generated up to 2.3 billion ad bid requests daily by leveraging hidden WebViews and steganography

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.

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.