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ThreatsDay Bulletin: OpenSSL RCE, Foxit 0-Days, Copilot Leak, AI Password Flaws & 20+ Stories
The cyber threat space doesn’t pause, and this week makes that clear. New risks, new tactics, and new security gaps are showing up across platforms, tools, and industries — often all at the same time. Some developments are headline-level. Others sit in the background but carry long-term impact...
Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought
Betterment LLC is an investment advisor registered with US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC. The company disclosed a January 2026 incident in which an attacker used social engineering to access a third‑party platform used for customer communications, then abused it to send crypto‑themed...
CISA Flags Four Security Flaws Under Active Exploitation in Latest KEV Update
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-2441 CVSS score: 8.8 - A use-after-free...
Reynolds Ransomware Embeds BYOVD Driver to Disable EDR Security Tools
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an emergent ransomware family dubbed Reynolds that comes embedded with a built-in bring your own vulnerable driver BYOVD component for defense evasion purposes within the ransomware payload itself. BYOVD refers to an adversarial technique that...
Industrialized Ransomware: Confronting the New Reality
Read about the new ransomware reality and what most security strategies get wrong. Learn how to protect your organization in 2026...
From Ransomware to Residency: Inside the Rise of the Digital Parasite
Are ransomware and encryption still the defining signals of modern cyberattacks, or has the industry been too fixated on noise while missing a more dangerous shift happening quietly all around them? According to Picus Labs’ new Red Report 2026, which analyzed over 1.1 million malicious files and...
Warlock Ransomware Breaches SmarterTools Through Unpatched SmarterMail Server
SmarterTools confirmed last week that the Warlock aka Storm-2603 ransomware gang breached its network by exploiting an unpatched SmarterMail instance. The incident took place on January 29, 2026, when a mail server that was not updated to the latest version was compromised, the company's Chief...
Hackers Deliver Global Group Ransomware Offline via Phishing Emails
Global Group ransomware is delivered through phishing emails and can encrypt files offline without any internet connection...
TeamPCP Worm Exploits Cloud Infrastructure to Build Criminal Infrastructure
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a "massive campaign" that has systematically targeted cloud native environments to set up malicious infrastructure for follow-on exploitation. The activity, observed around December 25, 2025, and described as "worm-driven," leveraged exposed Dock...
Everest Ransomware Claims 90GB Data Theft Involving Legacy Polycom Systems
Everest ransomware claims a breach involving legacy Polycom systems later acquired by HP Inc., alleging the theft of 90GB of internal data...
A week in security (January 26 – February 1)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Match, Hinge, OkCupid, and Panera Bread breached by ransomware group TikTok’s privacy update mentions immigration status. Here’s why. Meta confirms it’s working on premium subscription for its apps Microsoft Office zero-day lets malicious documents slip past securi...
Malware Detection through Memory Analysis
This paper summarizes the research conducted for a malware detection project using the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity's MalMemAnalysis-2022 dataset. The purpose of the project was to explore the effectiveness and efficiency of machine learning techniques for the task of binary classificatio...
Russian Cybercrime Platform RAMP Forum Seized by FBI
US authorities have seized the RAMP cybercrime forum, taking down both its clearnet and dark web domains in a major hit to the ransomware infrastructure...
GoTo Resolve Tool’s Background Activities Compared to Ransomware Tactics
New research from Point Wild’s Lat61 team reveals how the HEURRemoteAdmin.GoToResolve.gen tool allows silent, unattended access to PCs. Learn why this legitimate remote administration software is being flagged as a security risk and its surprising connection to ransomware tactics...
Google Warns of Active Exploitation of WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088
Google on Tuesday revealed that multiple threat actors, including nation-state adversaries and financially motivated groups, are exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in RARLAB WinRAR to establish initial access and deploy a diverse array of payloads. "Discovered and patched in July 202...
Multi-Stage Phishing Campaign Targets Russia with Amnesia RAT and Ransomware
A new multi-stage phishing campaign has been observed targeting users in Russia with ransomware and a remote access trojan called Amnesia RAT. "The attack begins with social engineering lures delivered via business-themed documents crafted to appear routine and benign," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs...
New Osiris Ransomware Emerges as New Strain Using POORTRY Driver in BYOVD Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ransomware family called Osiris that targeted a major food service franchisee operator in Southeast Asia in November 2025. The attack leveraged a malicious driver called POORTRY as part of a known technique referred to as bring your own...
Under Armour ransomware breach: data of 72 million customers appears on the dark web
When reports first emerged in November 2025 that sportswear giant Under Armour had been hit by the Everest ransomware group, the story sounded depressingly familiar: a big brand, a huge trove of data, and a lot of unanswered questions. Since then, the narrative around what actually happened has...
