Malwarebytes found 70 sites cloning Kraken's xStocks, Pendle and other crypto projects to push a fake rewards vote that opens a wallet prompt. The targets, it says, are projects whose users are used to hearing about rewards and allocations.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
DraftKings scored customers on how much they were likely to lose after a promotion, the New York Times reported after interviewing over 40 former staff. A ProPublica reporter betting his own money saw the offers grow as his losses did.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives45
- Confidence50
Arizona's Supreme Court says attackers copied over 150,000 foster-care review reports dating to 2010 from backups after an employee clicked a phishing link. The court kept those copies to recover from ransomware, so the store meant to survive an attack is the one that leaked.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
Meta's Muse, reportedly downloaded 3 million times in its first week, gave a Marketplace buyer a seller's home address and booked a visit he never approved. No one was hurt, but his approval of auto-replies let the agent disclose where he lives and send a stranger to his door.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence35
Scammers wrapped the leaked DarkSword exploit chain in a fake iPhone Duo preorder page that attacks the moment it opens, before any form, tap, or download. Apple has already patched the flaws it uses, so a current iOS build is what protects a phone here.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Contractors hired to grade Copilot's image edits see each user's original photo, faces uncensored, beside the request and two AI outputs, 404 Media reported. Microsoft did not say whether users can keep their uploads out of those reviews.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives40
- Confidence50
Adyen's 2026 fraud report, built on $1.6 trillion in payments, found about half of surveyed merchants saw more good orders wrongly declined. Those lost sales rarely reach the dashboards where fraud teams track chargebacks, so the cost of caution goes largely uncounted.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives65
- Confidence40
ShinyHunters has shown journalists FBI medical exams that name agents and their addresses, from a set it says covers about 60,000 current and former staff. The FBI has so far confirmed only an incident in FBIJobs-related systems, and the group is threatening to publish within five days.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
LinkedIn now lets verified employers, which it counts at more than 700,000 companies, remove false staff from their Page's people list and search results. The impostor's profile keeps the claimed job, so the check protects only targets who look up a recruiter at a company they already know.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
CARBONATO, a Docker botnet running since October 2024, hijacks hosts on open port 2375 and steals keys from 14 AI providers to fund its own LLM gateway. ThreatDown found the crew's own container registry exposed, handing defenders 4.3 GB of its toolchain.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 33%
- Operator
- Operator 57%
- Investor
- Investor 10%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives35
- Confidence60
Apple's latest mercenary spyware notifications went to users in 110 countries. The response checklist is per-person, and a standard MDM baseline covers almost none of it.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 16%
- Operator
- Operator 79%
- Investor
- Investor 5%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence65
Group-IB says a 13-minute call ended with a loan in the victim's name and card data streaming to a fake merchant terminal, every transaction approved with the victim's own PIN.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 27%
- Operator
- Operator 63%
- Investor
- Investor 10%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence65
Meta's on-device model flags likely scams from non-contacts in a limited beta. It carries no enforcement, no admin visibility, and no view of the vector that works best.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
ClarityCheck exposed 450GB of photos plus a second leak of emails and phone numbers, according to researcher Jeremiah Fowler. The company disputes the word "exposed."
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 26%
- Operator
- Operator 64%
- Investor
- Investor 10%
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
- Confidence66
A researcher found 450GB of uploaded photos with no authentication in front of them at US lookup service ClarityCheck. A face, unlike a password, cannot be reset.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives45
- Confidence60
Zimperium says the Android banking Trojan now abuses Accessibility to switch on wireless debugging and run commands through the ADB daemon. The target list is the smaller half of the story.
Perspective Coverage
6 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 28%
- Operator
- Operator 67%
- Investor
- Investor 5%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives55
- Confidence64
Microsoft's TerminalFix writeup shows the same fake CAPTCHA lure now feeding multi-line PowerShell into Windows Terminal, where it sideloads a signed binary, pulls payloads out of PNG files and leaves a reverse tunnel behind.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 20%
- Operator
- Operator 75%
- Investor
- Investor 5%
Reality
- Evidence65
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives30
- Confidence65
ThreatFabric traced the StreamRat dropper through four ordinary Android permission prompts to an Accessibility grant that hands operators keystrokes, credential overlays and remote control, with no infection count published.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
- Confidence60
Job lures arrive by email, romance by social media, tech support by phone, across three months of one vendor's telemetry. The counts measure delivery; conversion, where the training math gets harder, isn't part of what's tracked.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
CVE-2026-87491 gives a crafted web page code execution inside Chrome's sandbox. The fix only takes effect when the browser restarts, and long-running sessions carry that exposure until they do.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 14%
- Operator
- Operator 80%
- Investor
- Investor 6%
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives30
- Confidence70
Earlier coverage
- Gigabud creates an Android work profile to put its fake bank app out of the scanner's reach
Security · September 10, 2026 · 3 publishers
- A hijacked HBO Max Reddit account pushed 108 ClickFix ads to Windows and macOS users
Security · September 14, 2026 · 5 publishers
- Malwarebytes found AI handover notes left in the code of a fake Avast renewal page
Security · September 16, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Kothamine RAT tunnels its commands through Tailscale's tailcat
Security · September 25, 2026 · 1 publisher
- A placeholder domain from W3C specs and MCP docs is serving ClickFix PowerShell lures
Security · September 23, 2026 · 2 publishers
- OpenAI counted 27 work summaries where a model instructed itself to ignore its developer
Security · September 19, 2026 · 8 publishers
- RatHat self-pairs Android's debug bridge to survive its own uninstall
Security · September 18, 2026 · 6 publishers
- More than 100 look-alike subscription sites use genuine Google sign-in, with prices from under $10/month to over $2,000/year
Security · September 21, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Device code phishing collects tokens from a sign-in page that is genuinely Microsoft's
Security · September 23, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Fake Claude Max giveaway harvests Google logins through a window it draws itself
Security · September 23, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Researchers hijacked cheap smart glasses' cameras by pairing before the owner's phone did
Security · September 22, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Revolut phishing page requests camera access before imitating the bank's liveness check
Security · September 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Trusting the repository author in VS Code runs the fake recruiter's task file
Build · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Fake bpost customs email escalates a EUR4.95 duty into a request for card and bank details
Security · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Hackers unlocked thousands of Flock detections with a key found on the camera itself
Security · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Fake T-Mobile points-expiry texts rotated through at least 81 .top domains in four months
Security · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Meta AI's suggested question assembled two children's names, birth dates and a deleted photo
Security · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Fake Bitrefill checkouts collect crypto from buyers who arrive through search results
Security · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Hundreds of OpenAI contractors read whole ChatGPT conversations to score the model's replies
Security · September 14, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Fraudulent copyright strikes suspend Instagram accounts weeks before Meta unwinds them
Security · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Talos ties a fake Google CAPTCHA to a DLL executing from a remote WebDAV share
Security · September 8, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Gamers Nexus teardown finds LG TVs inventorying the LAN they sit on
Security · September 8, 2026 · 2 publishers
- X says attackers may be exploiting X Money launch amid wave of unrequested password-reset emails
Security · September 4, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Popanet code in SuperBox's CyberFlix TV app enlists home connections as proxy exit nodes
Security · September 4, 2026 · 1 publisher
- California hands app developers a four-bracket age signal starting 1 January 2027
Security · September 3, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Chatbot Logs Are Entering Discovery. OpenAI's User-Content Disclosures Quadrupled.
Security · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- A fake GTA 6 countdown page loads a seven-chain wallet drainer on arrival
Security · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher
- WhatsApp's billion passkey logins still fall back to a six-digit PIN
Security · August 28, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Scammers rented BuzzFeed's reputation to impersonate Malwarebytes support
Security · August 27, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Fake Apple Pay receipt reads a $657 charge aloud through the iPhone's own speech engine
Security · August 27, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Chrome 152 ships 327 fixes and ten criticals, and the restart is the only one that counts
Security · August 26, 2026 · 2 publishers
- The fake Indeed interview app that stops you uninstalling it
Security · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Take-Two's GTA 6 leak subpoena turns Discord and Microsoft logs into a device-level ID list
Security · August 25, 2026 · 1 publisher
- PavinLoader: the lures keep changing, the MSBuild stage does not
Security · August 24, 2026 · 1 publisher
- The refund scam that asks you to uninstall your antivirus, then writes down which one
Security · August 24, 2026 · 1 publisher
- A trailer date is a campaign schedule: fake GTA 6 sites are selling stolen session cookies
Security · August 24, 2026 · 1 publisher
- The $149.99 pop-up copies Apple's design system, which makes it support's problem
Product · August 22, 2026 · 1 publisher
- CareCloud's breach count grew almost 11x, five months after the first filing
Security · August 21, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Dutch regulator tells Twitch users to switch off Amazon's default-on AI training
Security · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
- OpenAI's 13-17 tier turns teen AI safety into an age-assurance problem
Security · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher