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The Good | Authorities Launch New Operations Against Cybercrime Networks & Supply Chain Attackers Operation Jackal IV, coordinated by INTERPOL across 22 nations, has led to the arrest of 58 individuals and the identification of over 200 suspects linked to West African cybercrime networks . The joint action successfully dismantled elements of the Black Axe syndicate, which orchestrates global romance , investment, and business email compromise (BEC) scams.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting ownCloud to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog following reports that a Chinese-speaking threat actor weaponized the vulnerability to target a nuclear research body in the Philippines.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a cluster of 19 malicious browser extensions—18 for Google Chrome and one for Microsoft Edge—that were designed to steal wallet secrets and drain cryptocurrency. The campaign, tracked as Superior by Socket security researchers, has been active since at least February 2024, with the threat actor either purchasing legitimate extensions or initially publishing clean versions before updating them with malicious code.
When quantum computers become generally available, they’ll be able to crack current public-key cryptographic algorithms, putting digitally stored and transmitted data at risk. But the threat already exists, as attackers use the "harvest now, decrypt later" tactic.
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, putting pressure on systems built to enrich, prioritize, and remediate flaws at a slower pace. Action1 explains why defenders increasingly need to correlate multiple intelligence sources and turn vulnerability data into faster remediation.
This is a collaborative follow-up to our original post , developed jointly with Emmanuel C. , a security researcher not affiliated with LevelBlue, who contributed additional infrastructure and tooling findings based on an analysis of the same GitHub staging account.