The Chinese state-backed espionage group started targeting third-party IT services in late 2024, Microsoft researchers said.

A flurry of unsealed indictments reveal China’s alleged well-coordinated effort to use a hacker-for-hire ecosystem to conduct espionage while obscuring the government’s direct involvement.

Ransomware groups last year achieved lateral movement within an average of 48 minutes after gaining initial access to targeted environments, threat intelligence experts said.

Competing agencies and districts are another hurdle for prosecutions, an investigator said in a recent speech.

Federal prosecutors accuse Cameron Wagenius of searching how to defect to Russia before he tried to sell stolen data to a foreign intelligence service.

An amended complaint identifies a number of overseas individuals as key players “at the center of a global cybercrime network” that sold access to jailbroken generative AI…

The amount stolen last week surpasses what the group was able to steal in all of 2024.

Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence firm said nearly 9 in 10 cyberattacks it responded to last year involved disrupted business operations.

The ransomware syndicate’s internal chats exposed a wide swath of the group’s inner workings.

Apple’s choice has caused some U.S. encryption defenders to worry about how the company may respond to similar requests from other governments.