ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam
Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ShinyHunters and tell recipients that hackers compromised their devices after obtaining their email addresses from breached company databases. However, the messages appear to be sent […]
Russian hackers exploit Zimbra zero-click flaw for email theft
CISA is warning that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration email servers by combining phishing attacks with the exploitation of a now-patched Zimbra vulnerability. According to CISA, Laundry Bear has targeted and compromised users in organizations associated with the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), […]
Microsoft working to fix Exchange Online mailbox quarantine issue
Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online issue that has been mistakenly quarantining customers’ mailboxes since Sunday. The incident, tracked by Microsoft under EX1436407, began on July 19 and remained unresolved as of the most recent update Wednesday evening. During this time, affected Exchange Online users have been experiencing issues receiving and sending emails […]
Data breach exposes up to 14.2 million email logins at six ISPs
Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach where threat actors gained access to one of its email systems used by five other internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. The company says that it discovered the compromise on June 17 and responded immediately by blocking the attacker and implementing defense measures. The investigation […]
OpenClaw AI agent found falling for phishing attacks, spills user data
Phishing simulation on an OpenClaw email agent with various configuration profiles showed that it was susceptible to tactics commonly used to compromise human users. The OpenClaw open-source AI agent framework allows large language models (LLMs) to interact with real-world systems and perform actions autonomously. It can be used as an email agent for basic reasoning and operations. Researchers […]
Microsoft Exchange Online outage causes email delays, failures
Microsoft is working to address a widespread service issue affecting the mail flow pipeline for Exchange Online customers across North America, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Europe. The company first acknowledged this incident (tracked under EX1331830) at 10:33 EDT, when it began investigating a stream of reports from users on social media. Some affected users are seeing temporary SMTP deferral errors, stating “The maximum […]
Robinhood account creation flaw abused to send phishing emails
Online trading platform Robinhood’s account creation process was exploited by threat actors to inject phishing messages into legitimate emails, tricking users into believing their accounts had suspicious activity. Starting last night, Robinhood customers began receiving “Your recent login to Robinhood” emails stating that an “Unrecognized Device Linked to Your Account” was detected, containing unusual IP addresses […]
Microsoft says Outlook.com outage is causing sign‑in failures
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Outlook.com outage that is causing intermittent signing issues and preventing customers from accessing their mailboxes. Since the incident started over three hours ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received thousands of user reports, with most affected users reporting login problems and connection issues. In an update on the company’s official Service Health Status […]
Over 10,000 Zimbra servers vulnerable to ongoing XSS attacks
Over 10,000 Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) instances exposed online are vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) security flaw, according to nonprofit security organization Shadowserver. Zimbra is a popular email and collaboration software suite used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, including hundreds of government agencies and thousands of businesses. The vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2025-48700) […]
Apple account change alerts abused to send phishing emails
Apple account change notifications are being abused to send fake iPhone purchase phishing scams within legitimate emails sent from Apple’s servers, increasing legitimacy and potentially allowing them to bypass spam filters. A reader shared an email with GeekFeed that appeared to be a standard Apple security notification that stated their account information had been updated. […]