Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-01-31 02:00 PST
- FBI takes notorious RAMP ransomware forum offline
Graham Cluley • 2026-01-31 01:43 • www.bitdefender.com
The FBI has seized control of RAMP, a notorious cybercrime online forum that bragged to be the only place that allowed ransomware, and boasted over 14,000 active users.Now some of those users’ details are likely to be in the hands of the police…
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender blog.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/fbi-takes-notorious-ramp-ransomware-forum-offline - Mandiant Finds ShinyHunters-Style Vishing Attacks Stealing MFA to Breach SaaS Platforms
The Hacker News • 2026-01-30 23:58 • thehackernews.com
Google-owned Mandiant on Friday said it identified an “expansion in threat activity” that uses tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks orchestrated by a financially motivated hacking group known as ShinyHunters.
The attacks leverage advanced voice phishing (aka vishing) and bogus credential harvesting sites mimicking targeted companies to gain unauthorized access to victim
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/mandiant-finds-shinyhunters-using.html - CERT Polska Details Coordinated Cyber Attacks on 30+ Wind and Solar Farms
The Hacker News • 2026-01-30 23:05 • thehackernews.com
CERT Polska, the Polish computer emergency response team, revealed that coordinated cyber attacks targeted more than 30 wind and photovoltaic farms, a private company from the manufacturing sector, and a large combined heat and power plant (CHP) supplying heat to almost half a million customers in the country.
The incident took place on December 29, 2025. The agency has attributed the attacks to
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/poland-attributes-december-cyber.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
