The scam begins with a phishing email designed to appear as an official communication from the IRS, informing recipients they are eligible for a $5,000 financial grant supposedly from Elon Musk.
Cybernews reports that Serasa Experian, the Brazilian subsidiary of credit risk and fraud prevention firm Experian, had 1.8 TB of data belonging to 223 million individuals, which is larger than the Brazilian population, claimed to have been stolen by a threat actor.
The stolen data, reportedly offered for sale, is said to contain simulations and schematics of aircraft, missiles, and bombs, originating from top organizations like the Aviation Industry Corporation of China and the National University of Defense Technology.
This bet stems from the ongoing debate about when quantum computers will become powerful enough to decrypt data secured by legacy algorithms, a threat that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been preparing for with the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Cybernews reports that more than 40 million SMTP records, including email addresses and traffic metadata from leading corporations DHL, L'Oreal, Renault, and Hermes, have been inadvertently exposed by French email solutions firm Alinto as a result of an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster.
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