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Security Company Arctic Wolf has reported that it has documented more than 400 incidents where threat actors flooded employees’ inboxes with spam, to the point of extreme frustration, then used Teams to contact the frustrated employee posting as IT support to assist in fixing the problem. The Teams contact comes within minutes of the flooding…

Threat actors are spoofing big brand logos in recruiting scams to dupe individuals into believing they are working with real companies and to divulge their Google credentials.

The scam was first identified by a Team Cymru researcher, who discovered that threat actors were impersonating recruiters from big brands to target marketing professionals. The fraudulent emails…

Threat group ShinyHunters continues its incessant campaign to torture companies trying to provide products and services to consumers, with no indication of letting up.

One of its latest victims, Medtronic, the manufacturer of medical devices, healthcare technologies, and therapies, confirmed that it was the victim of an April cyberattack where over nine million records from…

Another recent victim of ShinyHunters is Instructure, the supplier of the Canvas learning management system, which disrupted the login portals of 330 colleges and universities during the critical college exam schedule.

According to Dataminr, ShinyHunters “claimed to have stolen 3.654TB of data affecting about 275 million individuals and 9,000 institutions worldwide.” The stolen data…