Newly Emerged GLOBAL GROUP RaaS Expands Operations with AI-Driven Negotiation Tools

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new ransomware-as-a-service RaaS operation called GLOBAL GROUP that has targeted a wide range of sectors in Australia, Brazil, Europe, and the United States since its emergence in early June 2025. GLOBAL GROUP was "promoted on the Ramp4u forum by the...

Navigating the Cyber Threat Landscape in 2025: Key Insights for Security Leaders

2025 is half way done already and it has been evolving at an unprecedented pace, presenting new challenges and opportunities for security leaders. Last week, we launched The Hive Pro Cyber Horizons Annual Threat Report 2025. The report sheds light on the most pressing threats and offers actionabl...

Navigating the Cyber Threat Landscape in 2025: Key Insights for Security Leaders

2025 is half way done already and it has been evolving at an unprecedented pace, presenting new challenges and opportunities for security leaders. Last week, we launched The Hive Pro Cyber Horizons Annual Threat Report 2025. The report sheds light on the most pressing threats and offers actionabl...

Russian Basketball Star Daniil Kasatkin Arrested in Ransomware Probe

Daniil Kasatkin, a Russian pro basketball player, faces US ransomware charges after his Paris arrest. His lawyer claims he's "useless with computers," raising questions about his alleged negotiator role in cybercrime...

Innovative Tunnelling and Forensic Tool Abuse: IR Tales from the Field

Rapid7 Incident Response consultants Willow Shipperley and Noah Hemker contributed analysis and insight to this blog. Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response IR team was engaged to investigate an incident involving an attempted Cobalt Strike execution. The investigation uncovered twists and...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Inside the SOC – Expert Stories from the Frontlines of Threat Hunting and Malware Detection

What does it really look like to detect, contain, and respond to modern cyber threats in real time? At the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, Inside the SOC session offered a behind-the-scenes look at how security teams are tackling everything from ransomware staging to advanced soci...

Scattered Spider: Rapid7 Insights, Observations, and Recommendations

Overview of Scattered Spider and recent activity Scattered Spider also tracked as UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Muddled Libra, among other aliases is a financially motivated cybercriminal group active since at least May 2022. The group is notorious for targeting large enterprises — especially...

A week in security (July 7 – July 13)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Deepfake criminals impersonate Marco Rubio to uncover government secrets McDonald’s AI bot spills data on job applicants Millions of people spied on by malicious browser extensions in Chrome and Edge No thanks: Google lets its Gemini AI access your apps, including...

4 Arrested Over Scattered Spider Hacking Spree

Plus: An “explosion” of AI-generated child abuse images is taking over the web, a Russian professional basketball player is arrested on ransomware charges, and more...

Iranian-Backed Pay2Key Ransomware Resurfaces with 80% Profit Share for Cybercriminals

An Iranian-backed ransomware-as-a-service RaaS named Pay2Key has resurfaced in the wake of the Israel-Iran-U.S. conflict last month, offering bigger payouts to cybercriminals who launch attacks against Israel and the U.S. The financially motivated scheme, now operating under the moniker...

UK Arrests Woman and Three Men for Cyberattacks on M&S Co-op and Harrods

Four suspects arrested by the NCA in April/May 2025 cyberattacks on M&S, Co-op, and Harrods. Learn about the social engineering, ransomware disruption, and estimated £300M impact on M&S...

Scattered Spider’s Strategic Hunt: Is Your Industry Next?

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Introduction In April 2025, a single phone call didn’t just ‘help crash’ Marks & Spencer’s...

Ransomware negotiator investigated over criminal gang kickbacks

If someone is going to negotiate with criminals for you, that person should at least be on your side. That might not have been the case at Digital Mint, a ransomware negotiation company where one worker allegedly went rogue. According to Bloomberg, Digital Mint is cooperating with the US Departme...

SatanLock Ransomware Ends Operations, Says Stolen Data Will Be Leaked

SatanLock ransomware gang shuts down after weeks of attacks and plans to leak stolen victim data. Group linked to Babuk-Bjorka and GD Lockersec families...

A week in security (June 30 – July 6)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Drug cartel hacked cameras and phones to spy on FBI and identify witnesses Catwatchful "child monitoring" app exposes victims’ data Microsoft, PayPal, DocuSign, and Geek Squad faked in callback phishing scams Qantas: Breach affects 6 million people, "significant"...

CVE-2025-7145

ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware developed by TeamT5 has an OS Command Injection vulnerability, allowing remote attackers with product platform intermediate privileges to inject arbitrary OS commands and execute them on the server, thereby gaining administrative access to the remote host...

CVE-2025-7145 TeamT5｜ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware - OS Command Injection

ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware developed by TeamT5 has an OS Command Injection vulnerability, allowing remote attackers with product platform intermediate privileges to inject arbitrary OS commands and execute them on the server, thereby gaining administrative access to the remote host...

CVE-2025-7145

CVE-2025-7145 concerns ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware from TeamT5. The vulnerability is described as an OS Command Injection that allows remote attackers with intermediate privileges on the affected product to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands on the server, potentially gaining administrative...

TeamT5 ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware 操作系统命令注入漏洞

TeamT5 ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware is a proactive and intelligent endpoint detection and response solution from TeamT5. TeamT5 ThreatSonar Anti-Ransomware suffers from an operating system command injection vulnerability that stems from OS command injection and could lead to the execution of...

BERT Ransomware Group Targets Asia and Europe on Multiple Platforms

BERT is a newly emerged ransomware group that pairs simple code with effective execution—carrying out attacks across Europe and Asia. In this entry, we examine the group’s tactics, how their variants have evolved, and the tools they use to get past defenses and speed up encryption across platform...