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first_img South Korean police arrested 7 people in the first large-scale AI-assisted hacking case

Seoul police arrested 7 suspects accused of using generative AI to launch hacking attacks. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency stated that about 90 organizations were involved, collectively stealing 8.2 million records, marking the first large-scale arrest of suspects in AI-assisted hacking attacks in South Korea. The targeted victims included hospitals, universities, private tutoring centers, golf courses, and subsidiaries of large corporate groups, all of which held a significant amount of personal information, including names, contact details, and records of ordinary citizens. One funeral service company lost 1.22 million records, and reports indicated that the tutoring center's data also contained information on minors.According to local media reports, the main suspect, 32 years old, studied arts and sports and has no IT background. He told investigators that he self-taught hacking techniques through YouTube and online blogs, while police pointed out that he had worked in a security company conducting simulated attacks from 2019 to 2022. He initially used website vulnerability scanning tools and later introduced AI coding proxies and an automated penetration testing system called Artex at the end of August. Police stated that he hacked into 60 companies over a span of 44 days from August 31 to October 13.The entire attack operation lasted about 13 months, from September 2025 to this October, and the case was filed in June after a victim reported it. Police indicated that such a large-scale attack previously required a hacker group to accomplish, but AI now allows one person to achieve this in a short time. The suspect sent emails to 38 victims, collectively extorting 360 million Korean won, approximately 272,000 US dollars, but the only confirmed payment was 300,000 won, about 210 dollars. The main suspect was detained and transferred to prosecutors last Friday, facing charges of violating South Korea's Information and Communication Network Act, as well as extortion and attempted extortion. Police will continue to investigate the other 6 accomplices and confirm more victims, with 15 institutions already reporting damages.

first_img Coinbase Co-CEO: The second wave of institutional funds for Bitcoin has arrived

Coinbase Institutional Co-CEO Brett Tejpaul stated in an interview that the "second wave" of institutional funds for Bitcoin has arrived. He revealed that the seven largest banks in the world are currently operating on Coinbase's infrastructure and are experiencing their own "Kodak moment," as these banks begin to move funds from traditional accounts to on-chain settlements.Tejpaul indicated that the core driver of institutional adoption has shifted from Bitcoin ETFs to stablecoin payments. Funds can now be transferred from Citibank accounts to USDC, cross-chain in a second, and then enter corporate accounts on the other side. He disclosed that the scale of stablecoin settlements has reached $400 million per hour, but relative to the overall payment market, it is still just "a speck of dust," with payment service providers adopting it on a large scale ahead of banks. Additionally, Coinbase is connecting U.S. funds to Deribit, which holds 85% of the options market share.When discussing Bitcoin, Tejpaul believes the macro environment is good, but the price performance is disappointing, and institutions currently view it as a tech-related trade. He also mentioned that stablecoins and agency-style commerce have arrived almost simultaneously, and Coinbase is advancing a transformation from "Amazon to AWS" to activate infrastructure across the United States, disclosing that it holds about 90% of the market share in Bitcoin ETF custody.

first_img Immunefi CEO: PHP vulnerability confirms the arrival of the AI vulnerability apocalypse as scheduled, urging vigilance against wallet risks

The vulnerability bounty platform Immunefi's CEO Mitchell Amador warned that internet users still face the risk of cyberattacks triggered by PHP vulnerabilities, especially small websites that are slow to adopt emergency upgrades, which may take weeks to patch. He stated, "The vulnerability apocalypse" is coming as planned, where the cost of discovering vulnerabilities becomes cheap while the cost of fixing them remains high. He advised users to treat any websites they log into in the coming weeks as potentially compromised, avoid reusing passwords, exercise caution when connecting to encrypted wallets, and revoke token authorizations that are unrecognizable.Previously, the PHP Foundation admitted that it delayed fixing a critical security vulnerability first discovered in 2024 due to resource shortages. PHP developers released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities on the same day, but each website still needs to complete the upgrade on its own. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated that within 24 hours of the PHP vulnerability being publicly disclosed, the web recorded millions of exploitation attempts, with thousands of attempts even before the disclosure. According to W3Techs, PHP supports about 69% of websites with known server-side programming languages, and these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to spread malware or inject malicious scripts into websites.The FBI's Cyber Division also warned that these vulnerabilities could allow malicious actors to "remotely execute code in the PHP core, potentially compromising sensitive data and networks." Amador warned in an interview with Cointelegraph in June that the proliferation of cutting-edge AI models has changed the cybersecurity landscape, giving attackers an advantage, leading to the emergence of the "vulnerability apocalypse," and triggering a resurgence of DeFi hacking attacks. Immunefi is the world's largest vulnerability bounty platform, having paid out $140 million in bounties to 650 protocols to date.

first_img Interpol's Africa operation arrested 1,462 people and recovered over 105 million USD

Interpol announced that from June 29 to August 31, 2026, it coordinated law enforcement agencies from 21 countries to carry out Operation "Serengeti III," targeting online fraud, ransomware, business email compromise, online scams, and digital extortion. The operation resulted in the arrest of 1,462 suspects, the dismantling of 10,909 malicious networks, and the recovery of over $105 million in illegal funds. Investigations confirmed 65,929 victims, with financial investigations linking losses exceeding $385 million.In Angola, law enforcement dismantled two illegal cryptocurrency mining centers, arrested 9 suspects, and seized over 2,000 cryptocurrency mining devices and 6 illegal power transformer stations, with the seized power infrastructure alone valued at over $1 million. In Nigeria, authorities arrested a suspect linked to large-scale phishing and business email compromise, with the operation collecting approximately 2.1 million email addresses and software credentials; another investigation uncovered an international investment scam promoted through instant messaging applications that transferred over $2.4 million in suspected criminal proceeds, most of which were laundered through cryptocurrency transactions.Neal Jetton, head of cybercrime at Interpol, stated that cybercrime networks disregard borders and exploit technology to target victims on an unprecedented scale; the operation demonstrates that despite the increasingly borderless nature of cybercrime, international cooperation remains an effective tool for dismantling criminal networks, recovering criminal assets, and protecting communities. The operation received support from private sector partners such as Group-IB, Kaspersky, Fortinet, and Meta, and was co-funded by the EU and the joint project GLACY-e of the European Commission.
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