- US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion
July 15, 2025
Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort them by threatening to release stolen files, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. According to the DOJ, Wagenius, who went online with the nickname “kiberphant0m,” conspired to defraud 10 victim companies by stealing their login credentials, using brute ...
- A major security flaw in top eSIM system could put billions of devices at risk
July 14, 2025
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in eSIM technology used in virtually all smartphones and many other internet-connected, smart devices. In theory, the flaw could have been abused to intercept or manipulate communications, extract sensitive data, inject malicious applets, and more. There are more than two billion eSIM-enabled devices that could be potentially impacted by this ...
- US, French authorities confirm arrest of BreachForums hackers
June 26, 2025
U.S. and French authorities have confirmed the arrests of five hackers accused of being behind several major hacks and being part of a notorious cybercrime forum. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of British national Kai West, 25, accusing him of being “a serial hacker” known as IntelBroker. U.S. authorities allege West ...
- AT&T agrees to $177 million settlement over data breach
June 25, 2025
Current and former AT&T customers may be eligible for a payout from a $177 million settlement connected to two data breaches. A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on June 20 to the settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over the 2019 and 2024 incidents. The company announced in July 2024 that call and text message records ...
- Internet collapses across Iran, say web-monitoring firms
June 18, 2025
Internet connectivity in Iran almost completely disappeared on Wednesday, according to web-monitoring firms, as war with Israel enters its sixth day. NetBlocks, a firm that tracks internet access across the world, wrote on X that Iran is “now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout.” The firm’s assessment was confirmed by other internet-monitoring organizations. ...
- Mitel Releases Security Advisory for Mitel SIP Phones
May 12, 2025
Mitel has released security advisory addressing two vulnerabilities in Mitel SIP Phones including Mitel 6800 Series, 6900 Series, 6900w Series and 6970 Conference Unit. CVE-2025-47188 has a CVSSv3 base score of 9.8 and is a ‘command injection’ vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject and execute arbitrary commands on the device. Exploitation could lead ...
- Turkish intel busts cyber espionage ring stealing personal data
May 10, 2025
Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has dismantled a cyber espionage network that sought to steal personal and financial data from citizens by imitating corporate identities through fake cell towers, security sources said Saturday. After months of investigations and surveillance, seven foreign nationals were caught red-handed in a joint operation with Istanbul police and prosecutors, sources said, ...
- A timeline of South Korean telco giant SKT’s data breach
May 8, 2025
In April, South Korea’s telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of personal data on approximately 23 million customers, equivalent to almost half of the country’s 52 million residents. At a National Assembly hearing in Seoul on Thursday, SKT chief executive Young-sang Ryu said about 250,000 users have ...
- Earth Kurma APT Campaign Targets Southeast Asian Government, Telecom Sectors
April 25, 2025
Trend Research uncovered a sophisticated APT campaign targeting government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia. Named Earth Kurma, the attackers use advanced custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage services for data exfiltration. Earth Kurma demonstrates adaptive malware toolsets, strategic infrastructure abuse, and complex evasion techniques. This campaign poses a high business risk due to targeted espionage, ...
- FBI Seeking Tips about PRC-Targeting of US Telecommunications
April 24, 2025
FBI is issuing this announcement to ask the public to report information about PRC-affiliated activity publicly tracked as “Salt Typhoon” and the compromise of multiple US telecommunications companies, especially information about specific individuals behind the campaign. Investigation into these actors and their activity revealed a broad and significant cyber campaign to leverage access into these ...
- EU gives staff ‘burner phones, laptops’ for US visits
April 15, 2025
The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times. The use of clean and locked-down hardware is common practice for anyone visiting China, Russia, and other states where aggressive electronic surveillance is expected. Apparently the European Union has added the ...
- GOFFEE continues to attack organizations in Russia
April 10, 2025
GOFFEE is a threat actor that first came to our attention in early 2022. Since then, Kaspersky researchers have observed malicious activities targeting exclusively entities located in the Russian Federation, leveraging spear phishing emails with a malicious attachment. Starting in May 2022 and up until summer of 2023, GOFFEE deployed modified Owowa (malicious IIS module) in ...
- Flaw in Verizon call record requests put millions of Americans at risk
April 4, 2025
Security researcher Evan Connelly discovered an enormous flaw affecting one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world that could allow any single person to view the recent incoming call log for potentially any Verizon phone number. A vulnerability in the Verizon Call Filter iOS app allowed anyone to request the call logs of millions of ...
- The Espionage Toolkit of Earth Alux: A Closer Look at its Advanced Techniques
March 31, 2025
The Earth Alux APT group’s schemes and tactics have been uncloaked through our relentless monitoring and investigation efforts. The China-linked intrusion set is actively launching cyberespionage attacks against the government, technology, logistics, manufacturing, telecommunications, IT services, and retail sectors. The first sighting of its activity was in the second quarter of 2023; back then, it was ...
- Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations
March 10, 2025
Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack, affecting an as-yet-unknown number of individuals. The Tokyo-based NTT Com, which provides phone and network tech to enterprises, said it discovered the data breach on February 5 after determining that the hackers had ...
- 50,000 electronic attacks countered daily by UAE Cybersecurity Council
February 17, 2025
Dr. Mohammed Hamad Al Kuwaiti, Chairman of the UAE Cybersecurity Council, stated that the UAE possesses an advanced cybersecurity system capable of predicting and countering most electronic attacks before they occur. He noted that the average daily cyberattacks on key sectors exceeds 50,000, all of which are proactively deterred and mitigated. In statements to the Emirates ...
- China’s Salt Typhoon hackers continue to breach telecom firms despite US sanctions
February 13, 2025
Security researchers say the Chinese government-linked hacking group, Salt Typhoon, is continuing to compromise telecommunications providers, despite the recent sanctions imposed by the U.S. government on the group. In a report shared with TechCrunch, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future said it had observed Salt Typhoon — which the company tracks as “RedMike” — breaching five telecommunications ...
- The BadPilot campaign: Seashell Blizzard subgroup conducts multiyear global access operation
February 12, 2025
Microsoft is publishing for the first time their research into a subgroup within the Russian state actor Seashell Blizzard and its multiyear initial access operation, tracked by Microsoft Threat Intelligence as the “BadPilot campaign”. This subgroup has conducted globally diverse compromises of Internet-facing infrastructure to enable Seashell Blizzard to persist on high-value targets and support tailored ...
- Funksec Ransomware Teams Up with Another Ransomware Group to Double Down on Targets
February 3, 2025
FunkSec is a relatively new but highly active ransomware group that, as of this writing, has targeted several dozen victims across industries like government, banking, communications, and education. In a recent blog post, the group announced a partnership with another ransomware outfit, FSociety, aiming to carry out attacks more efficiently. This week, SonicWall Capture Labs research ...
- CL-STA-0048: An Espionage Operation Against High-Value Targets in South Asia
January 29, 2025
We identified a cluster of activity that we track as CL-STA-0048. This cluster targeted high-value targets in South Asia, including a telecommunications organization. This activity cluster used rare tools and techniques including the technique we call Hex Staging, in which the attackers deliver payloads in chunks. Their activity also includes exfiltration over DNS using ping, and ...