U.S. Sanctions Funnull for $200M Romance Baiting Scams Tied to Crypto Fraud

The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against a Philippines-based company named Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing infrastructure to conduct romance baiting scams that led to massive cryptocurrency losses. The Treasury accused the Taguig-headquartered company of enabling thousands of websites involved in

Earth Lamia APT Attack

The hacking group known as Earth Lamia has been targeting various sectors including finance, government, IT, logistics, retail, and education, shifting focus depending on the time period. The group is highly active and primarily exploits known vulnerabilities in public-facing systems and web applications.

ConnectWise Hit by Cyberattack; Nation-State Actor Suspected in Targeted Breach

ConnectWise, the developer of remote access and support software ScreenConnect, has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that it said was likely perpetrated by a nation-state threat actor. “ConnectWise recently learned of suspicious activity within our environment that we believe was tied to a sophisticated nation-state actor, which affected a very…

Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas

Meta on Thursday revealed that it disrupted three covert influence operations originating from Iran, China, and Romania during the first quarter of 2025. “We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our apps,” the social media giant said in its quarterly Adversarial Threat Report. This included a network…

SimpleHelp Path Traversal Vulnerability

What is the Vulnerability?FortiGuard Labs continues to observe ongoing attack attempts targeting SimpleHelp, a Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software, due to a critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-57727) affecting versions 5.5.7 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to access and download arbitrary files from the server without authentication, simply by sending specially crafted…