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Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks
In 80% of the cyber incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated last year, attackers sought to steal data—a trend driven more by financial gain than intelligence gathering. According to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report, written with our Chief Information Security Officer Igor...
Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks
In 80% of the cyber incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated last year, attackers sought to steal data—a trend driven more by financial gain than intelligence gathering. According to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report, written with our Chief Information Security Officer Igor...
When the Call Comes from Inside: The Rising Threat of Insider Recruitment in Ransomware Campaigns
In cybersecurity, we often say that attackers only need to be right once – and defenders need to be right every time. Traditionally, we’ve focused on perimeter breaches, phishing campaigns, and zero-day exploits. But increasingly, attackers are bypassing these hardened defenses and taking a...
Intermittent File Encryption in Ransomware: Measurement, Modeling, and Detection
File encrypting ransomware increasingly employs intermittent encryption techniques, encrypting only parts of files to evade classical detection methods. These strategies, exemplified by ransomware families like BlackCat, complicate file structure based detection techniques due to diverse file...
Company Wrecked by Ransomware Only Spent 120,000 Pounds Per Year on Cyber Security
Do you remember the story of the UK-based logistics company that closed due to ransomware and laid off 730 workers? Today in an article about a warning to UK businesses about cyber incidents, their “director” said they “were throwing £120,000 a year at cyber-security with insurance and systems an...
Hackers Turn Velociraptor DFIR Tool Into Weapon in LockBit Ransomware Attacks
Threat actors are abusing Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool, in connection with ransomware attacks likely orchestrated by Storm-2603 aka CL-CRI-1040 or Gold Salem, which is known for deploying the Warlock and LockBit ransomware. The threat actor's use ...
Stealit Malware Abuses Node.js Single Executable Feature via Game and VPN Installers
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active malware campaign called Stealit that has leveraged Node.js' Single Executable Application SEA feature as a way to distribute its payloads. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, select iterations have also employed the open-source...
Autonomous AI Hacking and the Future of Cybersecurity
AI agents are now hacking computers. They're getting better at all phases of cyberattacks, faster than most of us expected. They can chain together different aspects of a cyber operation, and hack autonomously, at computer speeds and scale. This is going to change everything. Over the summer,...
CL0P-Linked Hackers Breach Dozens of Organizations Through Oracle Software Flaw
Dozens of organizations may have been impacted following the zero-day exploitation of a security flaw in Oracle's E-Business Suite EBS software since August 9, 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG and Mandiant said in a new report released Thursday. "We're still assessing the scope of this...
New Chaos-C++ Ransomware Targets Windows by Wiping Data, Stealing Crypto
FortiGuard Labs reveals Chaos-C++, a new Chaos ransomware variant that deletes files over 1.3 GB instead of encrypting them and uses clipboard hijacking to steal cryptocurrency...
Velociraptor leveraged in ransomware attacks
Cisco Talos has confirmed that ransomware operators are leveraging Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that had not previously been definitively tied to ransomware incidents. We assess with moderate confidence that this activity can be attributed to thre...
UK Police Arrest Two Teens Over Kido Nursery Ransomware Attack
Met Police arrested two teenagers over the Kido nursery ransomware attack, which exposed data for 8,000 children. Full details on the hack and police investigation...
LockBit, Qilin, and DragonForce Join Forces to Dominate the Ransomware Ecosystem
Three prominent ransomware groups DragonForce, LockBit, and Qilin have announced a new strategic ransomware alliance, once underscoring continued shifts in the cyber threat landscape. The coalition is seen as an attempt on the part of the financially motivated threat actors to conduct more...
Medusa Ransomware Exploiting GoAnywhere MFT Flaw, Confirms Microsoft
Latest reports suggest the critical GoAnywhere MFT vulnerability CVE-2025-10035, CVSS 10.0 is actively exploited by the Medusa ransomware gang for unauthenticated RCE. Patch immediately...
The Business of Cybercrime: Raj Samani on Access, Ransomware, and What Comes Next
Cybercrime is no longer chaotic, it’s commercial. That’s the central theme of Episode 3 in our Experts on Experts: Commanding Perspectives series, where Craig Adams sits down with Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, for a wide-ranging, no-nonsense conversation on today’s threat economy. They...
XWorm 6.0 Returns with 35+ Plugins and Enhanced Data Theft Capabilities
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of XWorm malware, turning it into a versatile tool for supporting a wide range of malicious actions on compromised hosts. "XWorm's modular design is built around a core client and an array of specialized components known as plugins," Trellix...
Microsoft Links Storm-1175 to GoAnywhere Exploit Deploying Medusa Ransomware
Microsoft on Monday attributed a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1175 to the exploitation of a critical security flaw in Fortra GoAnywhere software to facilitate the deployment of Medusa ransomware. The vulnerability is CVE-2025-10035 CVSS score: 10.0, a critical deserialization bug that could...
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