DragonForce actors target SimpleHelp vulnerabilities to attack MSP, customers
Ransomware actor exploited RMM to access multiple organizations; Sophos EDR blocked encryption on customer’s network
The BlackSuit ransomware operation has been disrupted by coordinated international law enforcement. A splash screen appeared on their leak site this week: THIS DOMAIN HAS BEEN SEIZED This site has been seized by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations as part of a coordinated international law enforcement investigation. OPERATION CHECKMATE Numerous agencies were involved in Operation Checkmate,…
A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North Korea’s fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme. In November 2025, Oleksandr “Alexander” Didenko pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for stealing the identities of U.S. citizens and selling them to…
AI is changing everything — from how we code, to how we sell, to how we secure. But while most conversations focus on what AI can do, this one focuses on what AI can break — if you’re not paying attention. Behind every AI agent, chatbot, or automation script lies a growing number of non-human…
Here we go again? Lara Pearce reports: Popular travel website Booking.com has warned customers that their personal information including booking details and names may have been accessed by an “unauthorised third party”. Booking.com is one of the largest digital travel companies globally, with more than 28 million accommodation listings worldwide. The company sent emails to some of its Australian……
This could be the smallest breach DataBreaches has reported recently, and yet we are covering it instead of other, much bigger breaches that will undoubtedly generate lots of headlines. Why? Because it represents a refreshing example of quick response and transparency. Dr. Joe McEnhill, owner of Grange Dental Care, said the breach occurred on Thursday……
Sophos X-Ops’ research, presented at Virus Bulletin 2024, uses ‘multimodal’ AI to classify spam, phishing, and unsafe web content