Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform, arrest developer

2026-07-22T01:23:32Z68ad5c293f311456bfb52d4ea171713e45eba83c8d045b7b207b6236f6ad6960
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What happened

Multiple high-impact active threats and law-enforcement actions were reported: German and US authorities dismantled the Kratos phishing-as-a-service infrastructure and an Indonesian developer was arrested; a large FakeGit operation used ~7,600 malicious GitHub repos to distribute SmartLoader and StealC malware; threat actors are actively exploiting critical Microsoft SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-50522 to steal machine keys and maintain persistence; WordPress ‘‘wp2shell’’ flaws (CVE-2026-63030, CVE-2026-60137) are being used to deploy persistent webshells and malicious plugins; the Qilin ransomware团

Why it matters

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bleepingcomputer
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2026-07-22T01:23:32Z
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