A Canadian couple has lost CAD$1 million (USD$710,000) to online scammers. The couple, in their 70s, fell victim to a tech support scam that showed error messages on their laptop and then got daily calls from the scammers until they ran out of money
CTVNews
‘We’re devastated’: Ontario seniors give away more than $1 million to scammers
Fraud and cybercrime cost Canadians more than $630 million last year, with many of the victims being seniors.
Thai authorities have arrested 24 individuals working on online scams at a villa near Bangkok. Officials say the scammers fled from Myanmar after the neighboring country began cracking down on scam compound operations last month.
Khaosod English
Thai Police Uncover 24 Scammers in Luxury Villa, Including 21 Filipinos
Thai police arrested 24 suspected members of an international scam network who were hiding in a luxury villa near Bangkok, officials said Thursday....
A Canadian woman has been stuck in Mauritius for the past five years after her former husband accused her of hacking his email and had her passport seized by the Canadian consul, which now refuses it to return it because of more mysterious hacking charges
The Globe and Mail
Canadian woman stuck since 2021 in Mauritius after passport withheld
Mauritian authorities have not released her passport even though a cybercrime charge against her was withdrawn in March
The author of the now-defunct ZeroAccess botnet appears to have reformed and is a legitimate software developer now
R136a1
🇺🇦 The ZeroAccess Developer and His Windows Kernel-Mode Debugger
You might remember ZeroAccess, one of the largest and most advanced P2P botnets that ever existed. It first appeared around 2009 in form of a kerne...
Chrome and Edge v142 are out, both with new LLM-based systems for spotting scams and scareware
Chrome for Developers
Chrome 142 | Release notes | Chrome for Developers
The :target-before and :target-after pseudo-classes, range syntax for container queries, and more.
Microsoft Edge Blog
Protecting more Edge users with expanded Scareware blocker availability and real-time protection
Scareware blocker for Microsoft Edge is now enabled by default on most Windows and Mac devices, and the impact is already clear: Scareware blocker ...
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Russian telecom operators are blocking calls and SMS messages used by Telegram and WhatsApp two-factor authentication service. The blocking is also affecting new user account registrations
Код Дурова
Эксклюзив: в России ограничили регистрацию пользователей в Telegram и WhatsApp*
От российских операторов потребовали прекратить передачу SMS и звонков со сторон...
The Eclipse Foundation says it contained the GlassWorm that was spreading on OpenVSX. It also rotated creds for a bunch of developers that leaked their OpenVSX publishing tokens.
Eclipse Foundation Staff Blogs
Open VSX security update, October 2025
Over the past few weeks, the Open VSX team and the Eclipse Foundation have been responding to reports of leaked tokens and related malicious activi...
The Garden DeFi platform, which launders funds hacked from other crypto platforms, has been hacked
Telegram
Investigations by ZachXBT
Garden Finance was likely exploited for $10.8M+ on multiple chains. An address related to the team sent a message onchain to the alleged exp...
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-Russia arrests Meduza Stealer group -L3Harris manager pleads guilty -US hacked Venezuela in 2020 -Windows 11 Administrator Protection goes live -Loads of ICS hacks in Canada -New NSA & CyberCom chief favorites emerge -APT behind Ribbon Communications breach -US TP-Link ban getting closer -FCC blocks additional Chinese gear -FCC to vote down new telco cybersecurity rules -Israel had a "winking system" with AWS and GCP Podcast:
Risky Bulletin: Russia arrests Meduza Stealer group - Risky Business Media
Russian police arrest the Meduza-Stealer trio, a Former L-3Harris manager pleads guilty to selling exploits to Russia, the US hacked Venez [Read More]
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Risky Bulletin: Russia arrests Meduza Stealer group
In other news: L3Harris manager pleads guilty; US hacked Venezuela in 2020; Windows 11 Administrator Protection goes live.
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Sophos has linked the recent Lanscope zero-day to Bronze Butler (Tick)
Sophos
BRONZE BUTLER exploits Japanese asset management software vulnerability
The threat group targeted a LANSCOPE zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-61932)