Interpol is expanding the use of its Global Rapid Intervention of Payments mechanism to help countries and financial institutions stop fraudulent transfers before criminals can move the money. The system recently supported the interception of a $6.6 million business email compromise payment and forms part of a wider international operation that blocked more than 31,000 fraud-linked bank accounts.

Amgen has disclosed that attackers exfiltrated protected health information, proprietary data, and other sensitive records from cloud environments operated by third-party providers. The biotechnology company is still determining the full scope of the incident, including whether research, intellectual property, and additional patient information were affected.

A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor is targeting government and public-sector organizations with two previously undocumented backdoors named OctLurk and SilkLurk. The malware operates primarily in memory and supports credential theft, email collection, network reconnaissance, remote control, and the deployment of additional tools.