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Phone-based social engineering where attackers pose as IT or help-desk staff to trick employees into giving up passwords, codes, or session access.
South Korea's FSS dispute panel says a lender should repay a son 50 million won plus interest after a teller closed his deposit for his scammed mother. The panel treats the scammer as the party that benefited, so the firm is unlikely to recover the money from her.
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Google says UNC6671 split its extortion into Redact, Pink, Helix and Falcon on shared infrastructure while still working finance, legal and med tech. It averages 1.5 new victims a day.
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The firm says intruders reached its cloud platforms in July and took names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Google attributes the campaign to BlackFile, a Com affiliate with four extortion brands.
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SOCRadar's teardown of the AnonyMousKIT service found 200 AI-voiced calls at about $0.10 each, most of them to Brazil. The skill in phone social engineering is now a script file.
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Unit 42 says the crew reached more than 150 employees at ten or more companies without a single software exploit, which puts Teams federation policy and NTLM relay hardening in scope and leaves the endpoint downstream.
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The distributor found the intrusion on August 25, 2026, the same day ShinyHunters says its four-day exfiltration ended. It has not named the vendor applications involved, so customers are left scoping their own integrations.
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Call Status Detection is live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, switched on by default on iPhone and opt-in on Android, and Klarna pointed to the ECB's estimate of more than 4 billion euros a year in European fraud to explain why.
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Intel 471's 18-month sweep of the underground counted 340 financial-sector extortion victims across 74 countries, 159 firms with access for sale and 562 claimed DDoS attacks. The dated intrusions came in through vendors and help-desk calls.
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