An introduction to the canine intelligence cell, a volunteer investigative effort focused on exposing the criminal networks exploiting dogs through trafficking, legal loopholes, fraud, violence, and organised abuse.
In April 2026, Cyber Crime continued to lead the Motivations, once again ahead of Cyber Espionage. Cyber Warfare took the third place, ahead of Hacktivism.
PhantomRPC: A new privilege escalation technique in Windows RPC
Kaspersky researcher discovered a vulnerability in RPC architecture that enables an attacker to create a fake RPC server and escalate their privileges.
“Legitimate” phishing: how attackers weaponize Amazon SES to bypass email security
Kaspersky expert breaks down a new phishing scheme that uses the Amazon SES cloud email service. Let’s look at some examples to see how you can tell a phishing email from a real one.
Websites with an undefined trust level: avoiding the trap
We explain what suspicious websites are and how to distinguish a safe site from a fraudulent one. A new category in Kaspersky solutions: we’re sharing global statistics on untrusted site detection.
OceanLotus suspected of using PyPI to deliver ZiChatBot malware
Kaspersky researchers uncovered malicious wheel packages in PyPI that targeted both Windows and Linux and contained a dropper delivering malware dubbed ZiChatBot. We attribute this activity to OceanLotus APT.
This report provides statistical data on published vulnerabilities and exploits we researched during Q1 2026. It also includes summary data on the use of C2 frameworks in APT attacks.
CVE-2025-68670: discovering an RCE vulnerability in xrdp
During a security assessment of Kaspersky USB Redirector, we discovered CVE-2025-68670: a pre-auth RCE in the xrdp server component. Project maintainers promptly patched the vulnerability.
Kaspersky researchers are sharing insights into the main ransomware trends for 2026: EDR killers on the rise, switching from data encryption to data leaks, and more.
Kimsuky targets organizations with PebbleDash-based tools
Kaspersky researchers analyze a range of new PebbleDash-based tools used in recent Kimsuky campaigns and reveal their connection to the AppleSeed malware cluster.
Across Q1 2026, PIXM detected and analyzed over 75 distinct phishing campaigns. What stands out is not the volume — it is how rapidly the campaigns matured across the quarter. January's attacks relied on credential harvesting forms and consumer brand impersonation. By March, the same threat surface featured 100+ phishing pages hosted on Microsoft's own Azure infrastructure, comprehensive MFA bypass against authenticator apps and FIDO tokens, and fully functional proxy-based site clones.
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A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer…
A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm's chief…
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that…
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Phoenix Rising: Exposing the PhaaS Kit Behind Global Mass Phishing Campaigns
While analyzing global smishing operations spanning APAC, LATAM, Europe, and MEA, Group-IB researchers uncovered the 'Phoenix System' administrative panel, a centralized Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform with real-time victim monitoring, geofencing, and live-phishing interventions to bypass multi-factor authentication.