Accenture confirms breach after hacker offers stolen data for sale

IT services giant Accenture has confirmed it suffered a security breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen 35 GB of ...
Dark Reading

JadePuffer: The First Complete LLM-Driven Ransomware Attack

An "agentic threat actor" successfully exploited a Langflow flaw to steal data from a production database server and encrypt ...
Security Boulevard

JadePuffer Demonstrates How AI Agents Can Automate Ransomware Attack

Autonomous AI agents are no longer theoretical cyber risks as new research shows a large language model executing an end-to-end ransomware campaign, highlighting the urgency of patching known ...
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 ...
CSOonline

Microsoft disrupts malware code-signing service used by ransomware gangs

Cybercriminals paid between $5,000 and $9,000 to make their malware harder to detect on Windows, highlighting its effectiveness and a shift in how the cybercrime market operates. Microsoft has ...
The Hacker News

Ransomware Groups Turn to Citrix Bleed 2, BYOVD, and Supply Chain Credentials

Arctic Wolf says Anubis affiliates abused RMM tools, VPN logins, RDP, PsExec, and cloud-transfer tools before ransomware ...
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 ...

Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied

The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg ...
Dark Reading

Ransomware Attacks Fall by Almost Half in Q2

July 23, 2025 – Despite a record-breaking start to the year, June was the fourth month in a row in which ransomware attacks dropped globally, declining by 6% with 371 cases. Q2 as a whole experienced ...
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 ...