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Infostealers Harvest 1.7 Billion Credentials in Six Months
Flashpoint reports infostealers harvested 1.7 billion credentials in the first half of 2026.
Threat intelligence firm Flashpoint found that infostealer malware was responsible for the theft of 1.7 billion credentials during the first half of 2026. The figure underscores the scale of commodity credential harvesting feeding downstream account takeover, fraud and ransomware operations.
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Risky Bulletin: Expired cards can be used for new transactions
Researchers show expired Visa contactless cards can be revived via NFC man-in-the-middle relay to run fraudulent transactions; roundup also covers major breaches.
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers built an NFC man-in-the-middle rig that updates a card's expiration date in transit and relays the modified payment to POS terminals, reviving expired contactless cards; Visa terminals and the backends of all five banks studied failed to catch the manipulation. The same roundup reports Iranian hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, Lazarus breached South Korea's Presidential Office as part of a campaign exceeding 100 victims, and French telecom SFR suffered a breach affecting over 2.1 million customers.
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