For the first time, AI analysis and US RICO law were combined to shut down two interconnected botnet loaders and over 18,000 infected computers in a single international operation.
Ransomware attacks are surging massively and hitting Germany particularly hard; the SafePay group is responsible for approximately one quarter of them.
A current data breach of 4.9 million Wise customers containing names, birth dates, and Spanish tax identification numbers is being traded on the darknet and poses significant risks for identity theft and fraud.
Companies confuse compliance success and security tool investments with genuine resilience against AI-enabled cyberattacks, while their structural protection capabilities lag significantly behind their confidence levels.
Pig Butchering has become an industrialized, cross-border fraud system with a division of labor structure, in which forced laborers are sometimes also involved.