PayPal — Cyber Attacks, Breaches & Threat Activity

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
42
occurrences
First Seen
October 29, 2025
Last Seen
August 18, 2026

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Recent Intelligence Reports

  • PurpleDelta's Fraudulent Employment Operations — Recordedfuture · August 18, 2026
  • Hackers impersonate PayPal and Apple with new real-time phishing kit — Cybernews · August 16, 2026
  • Phishing waves: Cyberattacks on IT service providers for hotels — Heise.De · August 13, 2026
  • Aisuru botnet. — www.cloudflare.com · August 12, 2026
  • 19590158 — abc7.com · July 29, 2026
  • 19590158 — abc7.com · July 29, 2026
  • 19590158 — abc7.com · July 28, 2026
  • 19590158 — abc7.com · July 28, 2026

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