The fake human verification process led to infostealer and ransomware infections Categories: Threat Research Tags: clickfix, Featured, GOLD FEATHER, human verification, infostealer, qilin, Ransomware, StealC
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From a quintuple-encryption ransomware attack to zany dark web schemes and AI fails, Sophos X-Ops looks back at some of our favorite weirdest incidents from the last few years – and the serious lessons behind them Categories: Threat Research Tags: Ransomware, Hive, Lockbit, BlackCat, LLM, AI, Money Laundering
The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times, capable of directing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial-of-service…
AI agents have quickly moved from experimental tools to core components of daily workflows across security, engineering, IT, and operations. What began as individual productivity aids, like personal code assistants, chatbots, and copilots, has evolved into shared, organization-wide agents embedded in critical processes. These agents can orchestrate workflows across multiple systems, for example:
Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that’s exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers. “Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate…
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Department of Education in Victoria, Australia, notified parents that attackers accessed a database containing the personal information and email addresses of current and former students, prompting password resets. The department disclosed the breach in letters sent to parents, stating that an unauthorized third party accessed students’ names, school names, year levels,……
