Google Launches New Maps Feature to Help Businesses Report Review-Based Extortion Attempts

Google on Thursday said it's rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps to report extortion attempts made by threat actors who post inauthentic bad reviews on the platform and demand ransoms to remove the negative comments. The approach is designed to tackle a common...

Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Suspect Extradited to US from Ireland

Ukrainian man accused of helping run Conti ransomware extradited from Ireland to the U.S. to face charges over global cyberattacks and $150M in ransom payments...

Medusa Ransomware Leaks 834 GB of Comcast Data After $1.2M Demand

Medusa ransomware leaks 186 GB of Comcast data, claiming 834 GB stolen after a $1.2M ransom demand apparently went unpaid...

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From threats to apology, hackers pull child data offline after public backlash

Last week we yelled at some “hackers” that threatened parents after stealing data from their children's nursery. This followed a BBC report that a group calling itself “Radiant” claimed to have stolen sensitive data related to around 8,000 children from nursery chain Kido, which operates in the U...

A week in security (September 22 – September 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Hackers threaten parents: Get nursery to pay ransom or we leak your child’s data Google and Flo to pay $56 million after misusing users’ health data Neon App pays users to record their phone calls, sells data for AI training updated New SVG-based phishing campaign ...

Medusa Ransomware Claims Comcast Data Breach, Demands $1.2M

Medusa ransomware group claims 834 GB data theft from Comcast, demanding $1.2M ransom while sharing screenshots and file listings...

Hackers threaten parents: Get nursery to pay ransom or we leak your child’s data

Just when you think extortionists can’t sink any lower, along comes a lowlife that manages to surprise you. The BBC reported that a group calling itself "Radiant" claims to have stolen sensitive data related to around 8,000 children from nursery chain Kido, which operates in the UK, US, China, an...

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider , a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and...

Generative AI as a Cybercrime Assistant

Anthropic reports on a Claude user: We recently disrupted a sophisticated cybercriminal that used Claude Code to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data. The actor targeted at least 17 distinct organizations, including in healthcare, the emergency services, and government and...

Claude AI chatbot abused to launch “cybercrime spree”

Anthropic—the company behind the widely renowned coding chatbot, Claude—says it uncovered a large-scale extortion operation in which cybercriminals abused Claude to automate and orchestrate sophisticated attacks. The company issued a Threat Intelligence report in which it describes several...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions DPRK IT-Worker Scheme, Exposing $600K Crypto Transfers and $1M+ Profits

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC announced a fresh round of sanctions against two individuals and two entities for their role in the North Korean remote information technology IT worker scheme to generate illicit revenue for the regime's weapons of mass...

Storm-0501 Exploits Entra ID to Exfiltrate and Delete Azure Data in Hybrid Cloud Attacks

The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments. "Unlike traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor typically deploys malware to encrypt critical files...

Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 continuously evolving their campaigns to achieve sharpened focus on cloud-based tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs. While the threat actor has been known for targeting hybrid cloud environments, their...

New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques To Target Enterprises

We uncovered Charon, a new ransomware strainfamily that uses advanced APT-style techniques, including DLL sideloading, process injection, and anti-EDR capabilities, to target organizations with customized ransom demands...

New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques to Target Enterprises

We uncovered Charon, a new ransomware strainfamily that uses advanced APT-style techniques, including DLL sideloading, process injection, and anti-EDR capabilities, to target organizations with customized ransom demands...

Inside the Ransomware Economy in 2025: Q2 Trends & Key Insights You Need to Know

Building on insights from Rapid7’s Q1 and Q2 2025 ransomware trend reports, it’s clear that the ransomware economy continues to evolve – and not just in volume, but also in business maturity. As threat actors shift tactics, tools, and partnerships, defenders face a complex landscape shaped by...

Anubis Ransomware Encrypts and Wipes Files, Making Recovery Impossible Even After Payment

An emerging ransomware strain has been discovered incorporating capabilities to encrypt files as well as permanently erase them, a development that has been described as a "rare dual-threat." "The ransomware features a 'wipe mode,' which permanently erases files, rendering recovery impossible eve...

Iranian Hacker Pleads Guilty in $19 Million Robbinhood Ransomware Attack on Baltimore

An Iranian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over his involvement in an international ransomware and extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware. Sina Gholinejad aka Sina Ghaaf, 37, and his co-conspirators are said to have breached the computer networks of various organizations in...