A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.
Infosecurity Magazine

DragonForce Ransomware Exploited Microsoft Teams to Hide in Attack Against Major Company

Command and control traffic exploited a Teams visitor token to make malicious activity look legitimate to defenders ...
Tech Times

Ransomware Gang Builds Its Own EDR Killer: BYOVD Arsenal Hits 478 Victims

Ransomware EDR killer toolkit GentleKiller has hit 478 victims across 70+ countries by using BYOVD kernel-level driver ...
Business Wire

Sygnia First to Link Two Ransomware Groups to Larger Chinese Threat Actor, Dubbed ‘Emperor Dragonfly’

In a new report, Sygnia’s Incident Response (IR) team connects Night Sky and Cheerscrypt activity to one unified threat group targeting Windows and VMWare ESXi environments TEL AVIV, Israel & NEW YORK ...
Bleeping Computer

Ransomware gangs join attacks targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers

Ransomware gangs have recently joined ongoing attacks targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability chain, part of a broader exploitation campaign that has already led to the breach of at least 148 ...
Bleeping Computer

From Cipher to Fear: The psychology behind modern ransomware extortion

For years, security teams treated ransomware as a technological problem. Security teams hardened backup systems, deployed endpoint detection, practiced incident response playbooks built around data ...
The Conversation

Ransomware: what it is and why it’s your problem

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that makes a victim’s data, system or device inaccessible. It locks the target or encrypts it (converting text into an unreadable form) until the victim pays ...