Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-06-02 03:00 PDT

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-06-02 03:00 PDT

• Pakistan-Linked SideCopy Targets Afghanistan Finance Ministry with Xeno RAT
  The Hacker News • 2026-06-02 02:05 • thehackernews.com
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT.

  “The campaign opens with a spear phishing delivery – a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file bearing a carefully crafted Pashto-language filename,”
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/pakistan-linked-sidecopy-targets.html

• New Wave Of Phishing Emails with SVG Files, (Tue, Jun 2nd)
  SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-06-02 00:29 • isc.sans.edu

  For a few days, my SANS ISC mailbox is flooded with emails that delivers SVG files. An SVG (“Scalable Vector Graphic”) is a web-friendly vector file format used for graphics and icons. No URL in the body, just “an image”, that&#x27s the perfect way to deliver some malicious content. This isn&#x27t the first time that we see this technique used by threat actors[1].

  
  https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33040

• 175: Bayrob
  Darknet Diaries • 2026-06-02 00:00 • darknetdiaries.com

  It started with a fake car listing on eBay.

  What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryptocurrency for someone else. Millions of dollars siphoned from victims who had no idea.

  This is the story of Bayrob and the three men from Romanian who were behind it. And the long, strange road that led American investigators to their door.

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Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.