After posting something about a new report on cbsecurity[.]net by Dos-OP on Nova RaaS, Nova contacted me to complain, dispute the claims, and accuse me of being an unprofessional journalist. Once they made contact, I told him I would forward his criticisms to Dos-OP for their response, even though, as Dos-OP pointed out to me, Nova…
It’s budget season. Once again, security is being questioned, scrutinized, or deprioritized. If you’re a CISO or security leader, you’ve likely found yourself explaining why your program matters, why a given tool or headcount is essential, and how the next breach is one blind spot away. But these arguments often fall short unless they’re framed…
SonicWall is urging customers to reset credentials after their firewall configuration backup files were exposed in a security breach impacting MySonicWall accounts. The company said it recently detected suspicious activity targeting the cloud backup service for firewalls, and that unknown threat actors accessed backup firewall preference files stored in the cloud for less than 5%…
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan (RAT) that grants them persistent control over compromised hosts. “The campaign employs deceptive delivery techniques, including a weaponized Windows shortcut (LNK) file masquerading as a legitimate PDF…
DataBreaches should no longer be surprised to see threat actors claim to have hundreds of GB of files from medical entities, but it’s still concerning that entities can have so much data accessed and exfiltrated and yet not detect the attack. For today’s example, we point to Physicians Medical Billing, which was added to LockBit3.0’s…
The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting specific entities in Western and Central Europe. The activity, per S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team, was active between September 2025 and January 2026. It has been codenamed Operation MacroMaze. “The campaign relies on basic tooling and the exploitation…
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that unknown cyber actors broke into its systems and stole account data for a small subset of its customers. “Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas,” the company said in a statement. “They used cash offers to convince a small group of insiders to copy data in our customer support…
