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100,000 accounts have been hit in a HMRC scam campaign, but the tax office says it wasn’t hacked – here’s why
The UK’s tax revenue service has lost £47 million in a breach that started last year and impacted 100,000 people. The HMRC told the treasury select committee yesterday that the account scam was the result of “organized crime” that set up PAYE, or ‘Pay As You Earn’, accounts for individual taxpayers and used them to claim refunds. “This was organized…
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If You Have an Asus Router, You Need to Check If It’s Been Hacked
Asus’ routers and popular and well-reviewed. As such, there’s a good chance you have one of its devices powering your home wifi. If you do, you should probably check on it, since thousands of Asus’ routers are now compromised. What happened? Cybersecurity company GreyNoise published a blog post about this router attack on Wednesday. GreyNoise says attackers used brute-force login…
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A ransomware gang says it hacked Coweta County, GA schools
Ransomware gang Nitrogen over the weekend took credit for a cyber attack earlier this month on a school district in Coweta County, Georgia. On May 4, Coweta County School System issued a press release saying a network intrusion forced schools to take IT systems offline. “Some school system network processes will be hampered in the coming days, and school system…
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Government webmail hacked via XSS bugs in global spy campaign
Hackers are running a worldwide cyberespionage campaign dubbed ‘RoundPress,’ leveraging zero-day and n-day flaws in webmail servers to steal email from high-value government organizations. ESET researchers who uncovered the operation attribute it with medium confidence to the Russian state-sponsored hackers APT28 (aka “Fancy Bear” or “Sednit”). The campaign started in 2023 and continued with the adoption of new exploits in…
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A ransomware gang hacked the Gloucester County, VA local government
Ransomware gang BlackSuit today claimed responsibility for an April 2025 data breach of the Gloucester County, Virginia local government. Gloucester County officials first announced their offices experienced a network disruption on April 22. A day later, it said connectivity issues limited staff access to emails and disrupted operations. BlackSuit lists Gloucester County on its data leak site. County officials have…
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Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies
Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S. Justice Department also indicted three Russian nationals (Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shishkin) and a Kazakhstani (Dmitriy Rubtsov) for their involvement in operating, maintaining, and…
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LockBit ransomware group has itself been hacked – with tables turned on the notorious attacker by an unknown third party
The notorious LockBit ransomware group appears to have gone from cybercrime perpetrator to victim, as one of its dark web sites has been defaced. A new message on the site reads: “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague”, with a link to a MySQL database containing chats between the hackers and their victims. Other leaked data includes Bitcoin…
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Ransomware gang says it hacked the Sheriff of Hamilton County, TN
Ransomware gang Qilin this week claimed responsibility for an April 14, 2025 cyber attack on the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in Chattanooga, TN. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in on May 2 acknowledged a ransomware attack, saying the hackers demanded $300,000 in ransom. The sheriff says HCSO did not pay the ransom, but did pay $48,000 to Vendetta, a third-party…
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End-of-life routers hacked for cybercrime proxy networks
The FBI warns that threat actors are deploying malware on end-of-life (EoL) routers to convert them into proxies sold on the 5Socks and Anyproxy networks. These devices, which were released many years back and no longer receive security updates from their vendors, are vulnerable to external attacks leveraging publicly available exploits to inject persistent malware. Once compromised, they are added to…
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LockBit ransomware gang hacked, victim negotiations exposed
The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced and replaced with a message linking to a MySQL database dump. All of the ransomware gang’s admin panels now state. “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague,” with a link to download a “paneldb_dump.zip.” LockBit dark web site defaced with link…
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