Cyber Briefing: 2025.05.22

👉 What’s going on in the cyber world today?

Function confusion threatens serverless clouds, 3AM ransomware uses vishing and email bombs, and GitLab patches critical DoS and SAML flaws. Santa Fe loses $324K to fraud, ransomware disrupts Belgian housing, and a cyberattack paralyzes France’s Hauts-de-Seine. Global crackdown hits Lumma stealer, India fast-tracks cybercrime FIRs, and the EU sanctions Russia over hybrid cyber threats.

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🚨 Cyber Alerts

1. Function Confusion Hits Serverless Clouds

A new vulnerability dubbed “function confusion” lets attackers exploit serverless cloud services like Google Cloud. By manipulating package installation scripts they execute malicious commands to gather sensitive system data. Cisco Talos found this affects major providers…