Phishing

Officials from the Illinois Secretary of State's office disclosed the compromise of residents' driver's license details and Social Security numbers following a phishing attack against its employees in April, StateScoop reports.

Ukrainian military entities have been targeted in a now-disrupted month-long phishing attack campaign by Russia-linked threat operation FlyingYeti, also known as UAC-0149, that deployed the COOKBOX malware with cmdlet loading and execution capabilities, reports The Hacker News.

Hackread reports that major instant messaging and VoIP social platform Discord has been infiltrated with more than 50,000 malicious links during the last six months, most of which were for malware and phishing attacks.

Moroccan hacking operation Storm-0539, also known as Ant Lion, has ramped up its gift card theft activities with cyberespionage tactics ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, according to BleepingComputer.

Phishing emails have increased by 341% and 856% during the past six and 12 months, respectively, with the surge mostly attributed to the increasing adoption of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence services among threat actors, reports SiliconAngle.

Novel Chinese hacking operation Unfading Sea Haze has compromised at least eight government and military organizations across the South China Sea — where China has territorial claims against Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines — as part of a cyberespionage campaign that began nearly five years ago, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

More phishing campaigns have been leveraging the Latrodectus malware loader since March, with the loader updated with more extensive enumeration and execution capabilities, as well as self-delete functionality, according to The Hacker News.