FBI warned students in May of ShinyHunters harassment and swatting after a learning-platform attack
In a May 15, 2026 public service announcement, the FBI warned that ShinyHunters may target students and families with threats and swatting. The group had claimed the attack behind a nationwide learning-platform outage, and the bureau's advice was to pay nothing and verify any contact through a channel already known.
Publishers:ic3.gov
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
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- Hype gap−10
- Incentives
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- Confidence65
North Korean IT workers pay Americans to appear on camera and keep work laptops online
FBI says North Korean IT workers increasingly depend on witting and unwitting Americans to win jobs at U.S. companies. The bureau says no single indicator catches them, so employers have to weigh several signals together.
Publishers:ic3.gov
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
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- Confidence55
Wachtell Lipton wants boards to know what their own AI agents are allowed to do
Wachtell Lipton urges boards to check that cyber reporting captures AI risk, citing more than 22,000 AI-related complaints to the FBI in 2025. Delaware's Caremark duty turns on whether that reporting exists, so the firm wants a company's own AI agents inside it.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
Reported cybercrime cost Americans over 60 about $7.75 billion in 2025
Americans 60 and older filed about 20% of FBI cybercrime complaints in 2025 and bore more than 37% of reported losses. One woman's roughly $100,000 loss over three days, after a fake bank-support handoff, shows why the usual post-scam checklist falls short.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap0
- Incentives20
- Confidence55
The two sides will run parallel investigations and settle between themselves who charges whom. The last multi-country operation of this kind froze $3.8 million, most of it by one exchange's compliance desk.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence65
The extortion crew defaced apply.fbijobs.gov on September 22 and told reporters it got remote code execution from a new Oracle PeopleSoft flaw, the same one it says it is now using against Fortune 500 targets. No technical details are public.
Perspective Coverage
14 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 20%
- Operator
- Operator 67%
- Investor
- Investor 13%
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives75
- Confidence60
The bureau has not confirmed a breach and says it cannot yet tell whether its own systems or a third-party provider were the way in, while Reuters and 404 Media report that sample records match real personnel.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 22%
- Operator
- Operator 63%
- Investor
- Investor 15%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives80
- Confidence60
FBI says North Korean IT workers are ransoming stolen code once employers spot them
An updated bureau alert describes hired developers copying repositories into personal cloud accounts and then demanding payment once they are found. Seven of its eleven recommendations still sit at the hiring gate.
Publishers:fbi.gov
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence58
FBI ties $1.6 billion in losses to police and government impersonation scams over 19 months
The refreshed IC3 alert covers January 2025 through July 2026 and describes callers who spoof real government numbers, including IC3's own, so verification means a callback to a number the recipient looks up.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence62
Blocking Kali365 means deciding which business processes still need device code flow
The FBI says a subscription kit sold on Telegram harvests Microsoft 365 OAuth tokens through device code lures. The mitigation it recommends is a tenant-wide block, and somebody has to decide the exceptions.
Publishers:fbi.gov
Reality
- Evidence65
- Adoption35
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives25
- Confidence60
FinCEN turns 33,904 scam-linked filings into a dated red-flag list for banks
Treasury put $12.7bn behind 33,904 suspicious activity reports about crypto investment fraud, and the more consequential half of that release is the dated indicator list compliance teams are now asked to screen against.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence55