Michigan-based medical equipment company Stryker said on Wednesday that a cyberattack is causing a “global network disruption.” The company, headquartered in the Kalamazoo area, says it has “no indication of ransomware or malware.” Officials said the incident is contained to its internal Microsoft environment. “Our teams are working rapidly to understand the impact of the...Read More
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County officials say cyber criminals stole data held by the Department of Public Safety, which may have included driver’s license numbers. LYCOMING COUNTY, Pa. — An investigation is underway after a ransomware attack in Lycoming County. County officials say ransomware was detected on their computer system on August 12. Investigators later determined cyber criminals stole...Read More
Anthropic’s Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been used in fraudulent North Korean IT worker schemes and to distribute lures for Contagious Interview campaigns, in Chinese APT campaigns, and by...Read More
As if there weren’t enough privacy concerns in the world, AI ransomware is now reportedly a thing. Cybersecurity firm ESET said that it discovered the first-ever AI-powered ransomware, which it has dubbed PromptLock. “The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly,...Read More
Data I/O Corporation, a well-known electronics firm that specializes in device programming and security provisioning solutions, revealed a ransomware attack that penetrated its internal IT infrastructure in a major cybersecurity event. The incident, detected on August 16, 2025, prompted an immediate activation of the company’s incident response protocols, highlighting the persistent threat of ransomware in...Read More
Researchers discovered PromptLock, the first known AI-powered ransomware, capable of data theft and encryption. The Slovak software company specialising in cybersecurity has discovered a GenAI-powered ransomware named PromptLock in its latest research report. The researchers describe it as the ‘first known AI-powered ransomware’. Although it has not been observed in an actual attack, it is...Read More
Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibilityNevada cyberattack confirmed as ransomware, state services disrupted amid investigation Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:37:14 GMT (1756388234676) Gallery – News3 v1.0.0 (common) 5323f992000be3baf9f8d5f6f8812b76c9f38e39 Fallback Presentation. Using deprecated PresentationRouter. Source link .........................Read More
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The Storm-0501 threat group is refining its tactics, according to Microsoft, shifting away from traditional endpoint-based attacks and toward cloud-based ransomware. By leveraging cloud-native capabilities, analysis from the tech giant shows Storm-0501 exfiltrates large volumes of data, destroys data and backups within the victim environment, and demands ransom — all at speed and without relying...Read More
