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 Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against a Ukrainian national alleged to be central to a ransomware campaign affecting hundreds of companies worldwide.  Volodymyr Viktorovych Tymoshchuk,…

Researchers at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering confirmed they created the code as part of a project to illustrate potential harms of AI-powered malware.

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…

Kevin Hanes, CEO of Reveal Security

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.