FTC: Americans lost over $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025
2026-04-27T19:23:34Z•680d8cf51cfce6734623eeb00a43c0201e68c00d4f396eeaebc194853b9d416a
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What happened
Multiple high-impact security incidents and trends reported: the FTC says Americans lost over $2.1B to social‑media scams in 2025; a popular PyPI package (elementary-data) was hijacked to distribute an infostealer targeting developer data and crypto wallets; ADT and Medtronic disclosed large data breaches (ADT ~5.5M records; Medtronic breach claims ~9M records); Itron (utility vendor) reported unauthorized access to internal IT systems. New and persistent malware activity includes UNC6692 using Microsoft Teams to deploy a modular “Snow” suite (browser extension, tunneler, backdoor) and “Firest
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- bleepingcomputer
- Record identifier
- 680d8cf51cfce6734623eeb00a43c0201e68c00d4f396eeaebc194853b9d416a
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-27T19:23:34Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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