Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware FBI Accuses Ukrainian Man of Identifying Exploitable Flaws in Victims’ Networks Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 17, 2025     Karen Serobovich Vardanyan (Image: National Police of Ukraine) An Armenian national accused by the FBI of facilitating Ryuk ransomware attacks against numerous organizations is due to stand trial...Read More

Group says it hacked into Belk’s system, exposing Social Security numbers, medical information  Greensboro News and Record Source link .........................Read More

More than 2,000 WineLab liquor stores across Russia have remained shut for three days following a ransomware attack on their parent company, one of Russia’s largest alcohol producers. Signs on WineLab doors said the stores were closed due to “technical issues.” The attack crippled parts of the Novabev Group’s infrastructure, affecting WineLab’s point-of-sale systems and...Read More

Stormous Ransomware gang targets North Country HealthCare, claims 600K patient data stolen Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2025 Ransomware group Stormous claims it stole data from 600,000 North Country HealthCare patients across 14 sites in northern Arizona. The Stormous ransomware gang claims it has stolen personal and health data belonging to 600,000 patients from health provider...Read More

KnowBe4, a leading provider of cybersecurity and human risk management solutions, is shining a spotlight on the role social engineering plays in the global surge of ransomware attacks, and encouraging organizations to reflect on how human risk contributes to ransomware exposure.  This call to action comes as KnowBe4’s research highlights a concerning 57.7 percent increase...Read More

The U.S. is taking legal action against several hackers allegedly behind the Ryuk ransomware. Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 33, was extradited from Ukraine last month and now faces up to five years in prison for his role in Ryuk, prosecutors said on Wednesday.  They added that Ryuk was used in cyberattacks on thousands of...Read More

An Armenian national has been extradited from Ukraine to the United States to face federal charges for his alleged involvement in a series of Ryuk ransomware attacks and an extortion conspiracy that targeted U.S. companies, including a technology firm in Oregon. Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 33, was extradited to the U.S. on June 18, 2025, and...Read More

Posted Less Than An Hour Ago by 24/7 News Source (Portland, OR) — An Armenian national has been charged in a Portland federal court in connection with a ransomware conspiracy. Karen Vardanyan allegedly worked with others to target businesses, including an Oregon business, with the...Read More

Irish firms raise ransomware budgets as threats grow Pro Phil Codd, Managing Director for Ireland, Expleo The average large enterprise in Ireland paid €683,000 in cyber ransoms last year, and just under a quarter are living in fear of a successful cyberattack in the coming 12 months. As a result, one in five (22%) of...Read More

SonicWall’s end-of-life SMA 100 series appliances are again on the front line after investigators unearthed a covert campaign that couples a suspected zero-day remote-code-execution flaw with a sophisticated backdoor called OVERSTEP. The operation, attributed to the financially motivated group UNC6148, first steals administrator credentials and one-time-password seeds, then pivots to full device compromise before exfiltrating...Read More