Ready-made IDPI tools are already being commercialized and sold underground – a sign that prompt-injection attacks could transition from pure theory to practical threat.
AI chatbots are increasingly being abused for brand phishing, forcing organizations to prioritize preventive security measures instead of reacting to attacks.
The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) shut down the Kratos phishing platform, which orchestrated approximately 15,000 phishing campaigns monthly.
German and US authorities have shut down the phishing service Kratos, which enabled over 1,800 criminal users to conduct approximately 15,000 campaigns per month, and arrested its operator in Indonesia.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions a VPN provider for the first time for systematically supporting ransomware groups and other cybercriminals.
A residential proxy network comprising two million infected devices was destroyed by Google and the FBI after being used for mass infiltration by 316 different threat clusters per week.
For the first time, AI analysis and US RICO law were combined to shut down two interconnected botnet loaders and over 18,000 infected computers in a single international operation.
Ransomware attacks are surging massively and hitting Germany particularly hard; the SafePay group is responsible for approximately one quarter of them.