A financially motivated threat group operating since 2021 has refined its technical tradecraft, honing its focus on cloud-based systems that allow it to expand ransomware operations beyond the scope of on-premises infrastructure, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said in a report released Wednesday. By leveraging cloud-native capabilities, Storm-0501 has exfiltrated large volumes of data with speed, destroying...Read More
Anthropic’s agentic AI, , has been “weaponized” in high-level cyberattacks, according to a new published by the company. It claims to have successfully disrupted a cybercriminal whose “vibe hacking” extortion scheme targeted at least 17 organizations, including some related to healthcare, emergency services and government. Anthropic says the hacker attempted to extort some victims into...Read More
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – A 36-year-old convicted child molester is wanted by police after he allegedly cut off his ankle monitor last week. Corey Wickline pleaded guilty to two sex crimes in 2020 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by five years on probation per a plea agreement. Two child molesting...Read More
Although Storm-0501 had valid credentials, it didn’t have the necessary second MFA factors, nor was it able to satisfy policy conditions. They could, however, leverage on-premises control to pivot across Active Directory domains and find a non-human synced global admin identity that lacked MFA to reset the user’s on-premises password, sign in to the Azure...Read More
27 Aug Next-Gen Security Awareness Training Series On The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast Posted at 09:16h in Blogs by Amanada Glassner This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 27, 2025 – Watch the Video “We’re very excited to be launching a new podcast series where we’re going to be digging deep...Read More
NetScaler on Tuesday released security updates for vulnerabilities in its application delivery controller and remote-access tools as it warned that hackers were exploiting a critical memory overflow flaw. Exploitation of the memory overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-7775, which has a CVSS score of 9.2, could lead to denial of service and remote code execution if...Read More
ESET Research discovers PromptLock, a new type of ransomware using GenAI to execute attacks. The malware runs a locally accessible AI language model to generate malicious Lua scripts in real time, which are compatible across Windows, Linux, and macOS. PromptLock uses a freely available language model accessed via an API, meaning the generated malicious scripts...Read More
In the shadowy underbelly of cybersecurity, a chilling evolution is unfolding: ransomware, long a scourge of digital networks, is now being supercharged by artificial intelligence. Cybercriminals are harnessing generative AI tools to craft more sophisticated, evasive strains of malware, marking a pivotal shift in how threats are conceived and deployed. Recent discoveries highlight this trend,...Read More
Spanish police have reportedly arrested a university student suspected of hacking the local government’s education management system to alter grades and gain access to professors’ emails. The suspect, a 21-year-old man detained in Seville, allegedly infiltrated the Séneca platform used by schools and universities across Andalusia, Spain’s most populous region. Police said he manipulated his...Read More
