The attack dirsupted MathWorks’ systems and online applications, but it remains unclear which ransomware group targeted the software company and whether they stole any data. Go to Source Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
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The non-ransomware extortion group has switched up tactics and victimology in a deliberate and focused campaign similar to those of other attackers focused on stealing sensitive data. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Misconfigured Docker API instances have become the target of a new malware campaign that transforms them into a cryptocurrency mining botnet. The attacks, designed to mine for Dero currency, is notable for its worm-like capabilities to propagate the malware to other exposed Docker instances and rope them into an ever-growing horde of mining bots. Kaspersky […]
A multiyear investigation by a public-private partnership has resulted in the seizure of the botnet’s US-based infrastructure and indictments for its key players, significantly disrupting a vast cybercriminal enterprise. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Organizations need to broaden their strategy to manage vulnerabilities more effectively and strengthen network cyber resilience. Go to Source Author: Amar Ramakrishnan
Microsoft has shed light on a previously undocumented cluster of threat activity originating from a Russia-affiliated threat actor dubbed Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear) that it said is attributed to “worldwide cloud abuse.” Active since at least April 2024, the hacking group is linked to espionage operations mainly targeting organizations that are important to Russian […]
Artificial intelligence is driving a massive shift in enterprise productivity, from GitHub Copilot’s code completions to chatbots that mine internal knowledge bases for instant answers. Each new agent must authenticate to other services, quietly swelling the population of non‑human identities (NHIs) across corporate clouds. That population is already overwhelming the enterprise: many companies Go to Source […]
Threat hunters have exposed a novel campaign that makes use of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques to target employee mobile devices and facilitate payroll fraud. The activity, first detected by ReliaQuest in May 2025 targeting an unnamed customer in the manufacturing sector, is characterized by the use of fake login pages to access the […]
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of social engineering attacks mounted by a criminal extortion actor known as Luna Moth targeting law firms over the past two years. The campaign leverages “information technology (IT) themed social engineering calls, and callback phishing emails, to gain remote access to systems or devices and steal […]
The Russia-aligned threat actor known as TAG-110 has been observed conducting a spear-phishing campaign targeting Tajikistan using macro-enabled Word templates as an initial payload. The attack chain is a departure from the threat actor’s previously documented use of an HTML Application (.HTA) loader dubbed HATVIBE, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group said in an analysis. “Given TAG-110’s […]