The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) underscores that ransomware remains a prevalent threat, detected in 44% of breaches—an increase from 32% in the previous year’s analysis. With average ransom payments reaching $2 million in 2024, the financial reward is fueling the rise of ransomware activity. As a result, more cybercriminals are turning to […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert notifying about ransomware actors abusing unpatched vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp’s Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software—a tactic increasingly used to compromise organizations since early 2025. With over 21,000 new CVEs already logged by NIST this year, cybersecurity teams are under growing pressure to stay ahead. […]
As GenAI continues to shape modern cybersecurity with its powerful advantages for strengthening defense mechanisms, it simultaneously introduces new risks as threat actors increasingly exploit the technology for malicious activities. Adversaries have been recently observed using fake AI installers as lures to spread diverse threats, including the CyberLock and Lucky_Gh0$t ransomware strains and a newly […]
In today’s fast-evolving ransomware landscape, threat actors are accelerating their tactics to gain access and deploy payloads with alarming speed. Increasingly, attackers are leveraging known vulnerabilities as entry points, as seen in a recent attack where adversaries exploited CVE-2023-22527, a maximum-severity template injection flaw in Atlassian Confluence, to compromise an internet-exposed system. Just 62 hours […]
According to Sophos, ransomware recovery costs surged to $2.73 million in 2024—marking a staggering 500% increase over the previous year and highlighting the growing financial impact of cyberattacks. As ransomware continues to dominate the threat landscape, adversaries are rapidly evolving their techniques and developing new malware variants. One of the latest additions is Gunra, a […]
According to Sophos, ransomware recovery costs soared to $2.73 million in 2024, displaying a 500% rise compared to 2023 and underscoring the escalating financial toll of cyberattacks. The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have recently issued a joint advisory on Medusa ransomware, which has impacted over 300 victims across critical infrastructure sectors as of February 2025. […]
Ransomware remains a top cybersecurity threat, with attack costs soaring to $2.73 million per incident, nearly $1 million higher than in 2023, according to Sophos. As ransomware operations grow in complexity, new threat groups continue to emerge, seeking massive financial gains. One such group is Hellcat, a newly identified Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) threat group first spotted […]
Increasing ransomware volumes, expanding hacker collectives, and record-breaking damage costs are redefining the cyber risk arena. The FBI, CISA, and partners have recently issued a joint cybersecurity alert warning the global cyber defender community of increasing Ghost (Cring) ransomware attacks aimed at financial gain. China-affiliated hackers have compromised organizations from multiple industries, including the critical […]
Emerging last year as the successor to Royal ransomware, BlackSuit has quickly evolved into a highly sophisticated malicious spinoff, aggressively targeting organizations worldwide. Security researchers have recently observed a significant surge in activity by the Ignoble Scorpius group, the operator behind BlackSuit, with over 90 organizations falling victim to their relentless intrusions. Detect BlackSuit Ransomware […]
Following a wave of cyber attacks by the Iran-linked hacking collective tracked as Pioneer Kitten, the FBI, CISA, and authoring partners issue a new alert notifying defenders of a growing threat posed by BianLian Ransomware Group, which primarily targets critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. and Australia. Detect BianLian Ransomware According to the State of […]