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GoSerpent: A New Espionage Tool Quietly Targeting Southeast Asian Governments

Kaspersky says the previously unseen malware has been hitting government and diplomatic offices across the region since late 2025, with signs pointing to long-term spying rather than smash-and-grab theft.

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ACR Stealer Tricks Staff Into Typing the Attack Themselves

Microsoft says a fake-fix trick is pushing a data thief onto business PCs, walking off with passwords, session cookies and cloud files.

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Malware Disguised as Font Files Targets Windows Users

A global phishing campaign uses fake font files to deploy credential-stealing malware.

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New York Duo Charged With Laundering $43 Million From 'Pig Butchering' Investment Scams

Federal prosecutors say Zhuoying Chen and Haojie Zhang ran a 45-shell-company money mule network that moved victim funds from Queens and Brooklyn bank accounts to China.

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Russian Spies Are Testing Australia's Unlocked Doors

Australia's top signals agency has joined two dozen allied governments to warn that hackers working for Russian intelligence are quietly breaking into poorly secured network devices across critical industries worldwide.

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Fake QR code stickers on Christchurch parking meters are stealing payments

Scammers placed fraudulent stickers over real payment instructions to redirect drivers to copycat websites. The Christchurch City Council is urging residents not to scan any QR code found on a parking machine.

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ClickLock: the Mac malware that locks up your screen until you type your password

A new macOS stealer, tracked by Group-IB, freezes everything on the screen except a password box. It has already hit around 100 machines in 33 countries.

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Two Scattered Spider hackers get 5.5 years each for crippling London's transport network

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers pleaded guilty to the August 2024 attack on Transport for London, which cost the agency £29 million and briefly threatened chaos for 8.4 million passengers.

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This Week's Cyber Mess: Fake Repos, Chrome Sync Stalking and a Ransomware Crew That Moves in a Day

A roundup of the week's smaller stories that share one uncomfortable theme: attacks that succeed because something looked close enough to trust.

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ClickLock: The Mac Stealer That Won't Let You Work Until You Hand Over Your Password

A new macOS malware kills your apps in a loop every 210 milliseconds, holding your machine hostage until you type in your login password.

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TELEPUZ: The New Malware Hiding Behind Fake 'Fix This' Website Pop-ups

A modular info-stealer is spreading through booby-trapped websites that trick visitors into pasting malicious commands into their own computers.

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Two Scattered Spider Members Jailed in UK's Largest Ever Cybercrime Prosecution

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers each received five and a half years in prison for a 2024 attack on Transport for London that cost the city £29 million.

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ClickLock Stealer Tricks Mac Users Into Handing Over Their Own Passwords

A newly discovered piece of Mac malware skips the usual hacking tricks and simply persuades victims to run it themselves, then locks the screen until they surrender their passwords.

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China-Linked 'Daxin' Rootkit Returns After Four Years, Found Inside Taiwan Factory

The stealthy kernel malware, last documented in 2022, showed up alongside a new backdoor called Stupig on a manufacturer's network.

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Brazilian Government Sites Turned Into Malware Traps in PhantomEnigma Campaign

Attackers quietly took over more than 20 official .gov.br domains and used them to push a stealthy backdoor, according to new analysis from ANY.RUN.

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