The State of Ransomware in Education 2025

NCC Group saw over 570 ransomware attacks in December 2024, the highest number since it started monitoring them in 2021.  The post Record Number of Ransomware Attacks in December 2024 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The threat actor known as Tomiris has been attributed to attacks targeting foreign ministries, intergovernmental organizations, and government entities in Russia with an aim to establish remote access and deploy additional tools. “These attacks highlight a notable shift in Tomiris’s tactics, namely the increased use of implants that leverage public services (e.g., Telegram and Discord)…

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Apple and Google have released several software updates to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users. On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its Chrome browser, noting that one of the bugs was being actively exploited by hackers before the company had time to……

Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess, and Lily Hay Newman of WIRED report: Made possible through partnership with ThreatLocker Ransomware gangs, email scammers, state-sponsored spies: hacking groups come in all shapes and sizes. There are some we write about quite a bit here at WIRED, who through some combination of audacity, incompetence, or geopolitical importance—or some combination…

On September 11, after posting a lengthy “Goodbye” message on BreachForums[.]hn and linking to it on Telegram, the individuals calling themselves Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters 4.0 seemed to have some difficulty with sticking to the “going silent” part of their farewell message. In short order, they posted four screenshots suggesting that they had access to the……

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new botnet malware called HTTPBot that has been used to primarily single out the gaming industry, as well as technology companies and educational institutions in China. “Over the past few months, it has expanded aggressively, continuously leveraging infected devices to launch external attacks,” NSFOCUS said in a report…