On May 1, Qilin added Cobb County, Georgia to its dark web leak site. The ransomware gang claims to have acquired 150 GB of data and more than 400,000 files. They provided 16 image files as proof of their claims. Qilin threatens to release the data on May 3 if no payment is received. Because…
Ransomware doesn’t hit all at once—it slowly floods your defenses in stages. Like a ship subsumed with water, the attack starts quietly, below the surface, with subtle warning signs that are easy to miss. By the time encryption starts, it’s too late to stop the flood. Each stage of a ransomware attack offers a small…
In the second of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops investigates the so-called ‘white’ (legitimate) business interests of threat actors
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal agency. “People’s Republic of China-linked (PRC) malicious cyber actors continue to target U.S. government systems, including…
This week, a 23-year-old Serbian activist found themselves at the crossroads of digital danger when a sneaky zero-day exploit turned their Android device into a target. Meanwhile, Microsoft pulled back the curtain on a scheme where cybercriminals used AI tools for harmful pranks, and a massive trove of live secrets was discovered, reminding us that…
The Play ransomware group claims to have stolen sensitive data from donut and coffee retail chain Krispy Kreme. The post Ransomware Group Claims Theft of Personal, Financial Data From Krispy Kreme appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar RAT onto developer systems. The heavily obfuscated package, named ethereumvulncontracthandler, was published to npm on December 18, 2024, by a…
