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🚨 Fake News, Real Threats!
Meta just shut down 3 secret influence ops from Iran, China, and Romania using fake accounts, AI, and hashtags to sway public opinion.
👁🗨 658 fake Facebook accounts.
🎭 AI-generated profiles.
One Iranian campaign tied to Storm-2035 even misused ChatGPT to spread polarizing propaganda.
🔗 Read details — https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/meta-disrupts-influence-ops-targeting.html
Meta just shut down 3 secret influence ops from Iran, China, and Romania using fake accounts, AI, and hashtags to sway public opinion.
👁🗨 658 fake Facebook accounts.
🎭 AI-generated profiles.
One Iranian campaign tied to Storm-2035 even misused ChatGPT to spread polarizing propaganda.
🔗 Read details — https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/meta-disrupts-influence-ops-targeting.html
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🚨 ConnectWise confirms a targeted cyberattack on its environment—likely tied to a nation-state actor.
Just weeks after patching CVE-2025-3935, suspicious activity hit a small group of customers.
Stay ALERT | Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/connectwise-hit-by-cyberattack-nation.html
Just weeks after patching CVE-2025-3935, suspicious activity hit a small group of customers.
Stay ALERT | Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/connectwise-hit-by-cyberattack-nation.html
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🚨 The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Funnull, a Philippines-based firm powering thousands of crypto scams—causing over $200M in U.S. losses.
The twist? They used AWS and Azure to host fake sites at scale.
🔹 332K+ domains
🔹 548 spoofed brands
🔹 Avg. victim loss: $150K+
Don’t get played: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/us-sanctions-funnull-for-200m-romance.html
The twist? They used AWS and Azure to host fake sites at scale.
🔹 332K+ domains
🔹 548 spoofed brands
🔹 Avg. victim loss: $150K+
Don’t get played: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/us-sanctions-funnull-for-200m-romance.html
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UPDATE — Two PoC exploits for the BadSuccessor flaw in Windows Server 2025 are now public.
⚠️ One enables stealthy privilege escalation with just a Kerberos ticket
⚠️ SharpSuccessor lets low-priv users gain domain admin via CreateChild rights
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/critical-windows-server-2025-dmsa.html
⚠️ One enables stealthy privilege escalation with just a Kerberos ticket
⚠️ SharpSuccessor lets low-priv users gain domain admin via CreateChild rights
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/critical-windows-server-2025-dmsa.html
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🔥 China-backed hackers are on the move.
Earth Lamia is hitting govts, IT firms & universities in 🇮🇳 🇧🇷 🇻🇳 🇵🇭 🇹🇭 using 9 exploits—incl. SAP NetWeaver & TeamCity.
⚠️ SQL injections
⚠️ Custom malware
⚠️ Ransomware… then delete it?
Full story 👉 https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/china-linked-hackers-exploit-sap-and.html
Earth Lamia is hitting govts, IT firms & universities in 🇮🇳 🇧🇷 🇻🇳 🇵🇭 🇹🇭 using 9 exploits—incl. SAP NetWeaver & TeamCity.
⚠️ SQL injections
⚠️ Custom malware
⚠️ Ransomware… then delete it?
Full story 👉 https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/china-linked-hackers-exploit-sap-and.html
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👀 “We never drop tools. We use yours.” — BlackBasta ransomware.
A new Bitdefender analysis of 700,000 incidents reveals this chilling truth: 84% of major cyberattacks use Living Off the Land tools like netsh.exe, powershell.exe, wmic.exe.
🔗 Read the report: https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2025/05/living-off-land-what-we-learned-from.html
A new Bitdefender analysis of 700,000 incidents reveals this chilling truth: 84% of major cyberattacks use Living Off the Land tools like netsh.exe, powershell.exe, wmic.exe.
🔗 Read the report: https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2025/05/living-off-land-what-we-learned-from.html
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Krebs on Security
U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams
The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as “pig…
🇪🇺😡 Ukrainian cyber gangs could go legit in EU — Orban
80% of cybercrimes in Hungary in recent years were committed by Ukrainians, with 169 suspects identified, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Kossuth Radio.
🌏If Ukraine joins the EU, Ukrainian fraudsters will get legal protection as the bloc’s “financial providers.”
🌏Taking action against them would be “much more difficult.”
Ukrainian scammers recently stole $22.5 million from Hungarian citizens. Police and banks have recovered about $4.2 million so far, according to the head of the PM’s office, Gergely Gulyas.
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80% of cybercrimes in Hungary in recent years were committed by Ukrainians, with 169 suspects identified, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Kossuth Radio.
“Ukraine is a dangerous country,” Orban added.
🌏If Ukraine joins the EU, Ukrainian fraudsters will get legal protection as the bloc’s “financial providers.”
🌏Taking action against them would be “much more difficult.”
Ukrainian scammers recently stole $22.5 million from Hungarian citizens. Police and banks have recovered about $4.2 million so far, according to the head of the PM’s office, Gergely Gulyas.
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Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
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Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
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🚨 “Prove you're not a robot” — turns into full system breach!
Hackers are using fake CAPTCHA checks to deploy a stealthy new Rust malware, EDDIESTEALER, via ClickFix—a social engineering trick abusing PowerShell on Windows.
🎯 Targets: Passwords, crypto wallets, cookies, and more.
🔗 Full report: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/eddiestealer-malware-uses-clickfix.html
Hackers are using fake CAPTCHA checks to deploy a stealthy new Rust malware, EDDIESTEALER, via ClickFix—a social engineering trick abusing PowerShell on Windows.
🎯 Targets: Passwords, crypto wallets, cookies, and more.
🔗 Full report: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/eddiestealer-malware-uses-clickfix.html
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CNN
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality.
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⚡️The TBOT Show Episode #1
Hey peeps,
Its Hakeem! We’ve just released the first episode of the new #TBOT show which will be published every Friday from now on.
🔥 My focus with this show is to give you the most important tech stories every week in about 20 minutes (ain’t nobody got more time than that) - all with recommendations.
⭐️ PLUS - one cool tech trick or open-source solution every week.
This week we’ll discuss:
This week’s lineup:
• REAL ID – What it is, where it came from, and how to opt out at the airport.
• Siri’s Listening – Apple settles $95M for secretly recording you.
• IRS & Crypto – They got your info from Coinbase. Why it’s time for switch to another wallet.
• Google’s Antitrust Fight – DOJ says they’ve got a monopoly. What happens next?
• BTC ↔ XMR Swaps – Use UnstoppableSwap with no trusted third parties.
We’ll be publishing full posts and clips of each of these stories next week!
Follow the show:
https://takebackourtech.org
https://tbot.substack.com
Hey peeps,
Its Hakeem! We’ve just released the first episode of the new #TBOT show which will be published every Friday from now on.
🔥 My focus with this show is to give you the most important tech stories every week in about 20 minutes (ain’t nobody got more time than that) - all with recommendations.
⭐️ PLUS - one cool tech trick or open-source solution every week.
This week we’ll discuss:
This week’s lineup:
• REAL ID – What it is, where it came from, and how to opt out at the airport.
• Siri’s Listening – Apple settles $95M for secretly recording you.
• IRS & Crypto – They got your info from Coinbase. Why it’s time for switch to another wallet.
• Google’s Antitrust Fight – DOJ says they’ve got a monopoly. What happens next?
• BTC ↔ XMR Swaps – Use UnstoppableSwap with no trusted third parties.
We’ll be publishing full posts and clips of each of these stories next week!
Follow the show:
https://takebackourtech.org
https://tbot.substack.com