A recent wave of attacks targeting SonicWall customers has researchers and authorities on alert. Many victim organizations had misconfigurations in their systems.

Sonu Shankar, President at Phosphorus

The Oregon senator said Microsoft’s default settings for Windows and other products are enabling ransomware attacks, like the one against Ascension hospital system in 2024. 

Cynthia Kaiser Sr. Vice President of Halcyon’s Ransomware Research Center

Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022. He’s been out on bond since his arrest almost a year ago, despite multiple run-ins with…

There are still impediments to overcome before companies and agencies can get more broadly aggressive in cyberspace, both legal and commercial.

The financially motivated threat group demonstrates deep knowledge of hybrid cloud environments, which allows it to rapidly steal sensitive data, destroy backups and encrypt systems for ransomware.

The malware, called PromptLock, essentially functions as a hard-coded prompt injection attack on a large language model, inspecting local filesystems, exfiltrating files and encrypting data.

The electronics manufacturer and software vendor serves major automotive suppliers and top tech firms.

Operation Serengeti 2.0 dismantled almost 11,500 malicious infrastructures between June and August. Officials arrested more than 1,200 alleged cybercriminals.