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Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
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The Register
What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
Dark Reading
Organizations can improve their climate footprints by optimizing two specific cybersecurity protections, without incurring added risks.
Bleeping Computer
A sudden CPU spike turned out to be the first clue of an in-progress RansomHub ransomware attack. Varonis breaks down how their team traced the attack from fake browser updates to domain-admin takeover, ultimately stopping the attack before files were encrypted. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A massive spike in brute-force attacks targeted Fortinet SSL VPNs earlier this month, followed by a switch to FortiManager, marked a deliberate shift in targeting that has historically preceded new vulnerability disclosures. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Can your defenses withstand the biggest attacks of Summer 2025? From Interlock's FileFix to Qilin, Scattered Spider, and ToolShell exploits—simulate them all against your organization's defenses with Picus Security Validation Platform to find gaps before attackers do. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Researchers have found that in roughly 80% of cases, spikes in malicious activity like network reconnaissance, targeted scanning, and brute-forcing attempts are a precursor to the disclosure of new security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within six weeks. [...]
Dark Reading
Data exfiltration was the most common malware in Sonatype report, with more than 4,400 packages designed to steal secrets, personally identifiable information, credentials, and API tokens.
The Register
¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.…
The Register
A bottomless appetite for tracking people as "objects" A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.…
The Hacker News
Russian organizations have become the target of a phishing campaign that distributes malware called PureRAT, according to new findings from Kaspersky. "The campaign aimed at Russian business began back in March 2023, but in the first third of 2025 the number of attacks quadrupled compared to the same period in 2024," the cybersecurity vendor said. The attack chains, which have not been