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.
The North Korea-linked Kimsuky hacking group has launched a new social engineering campaign targeting activists in the North Korean human rights and anti-North Korea sectors, The Hacker News reports.
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