[ad_1] Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women...Read More

[ad_1] 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...Read More

[ad_1] 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...Read More

[ad_1] 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...Read More

[ad_1] 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...Read More

[ad_1] 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...Read More

[ad_1] 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. [ad_2] Source link .........................Read More

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[ad_1] 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...Read More

[ad_1] Microsoft Threat Intelligence has detailed the evolving tactics of the financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501, which has transitioned from traditional on-premises ransomware deployments to sophisticated cloud-based operations. Unlike conventional ransomware that relies on endpoint encryption malware and subsequent decryption key negotiations, Storm-0501 exploits cloud-native capabilities to exfiltrate massive data volumes, obliterate backups, and enforce...Read More