Health-ISAC recently released their 2025 Health Sector Cyber Threat Landscape Report, a comprehensive outline of the malicious activity aimed at healthcare in the previous year. Not surprisingly, ransomware was cited by security professionals in the industry as the number one threat of 2024 and the top area of concern coming into 2025 (followed by third-party breaches,...Read More
Babuk 2.0 accused of faking high-profile cyber attacks. Ransomware attacks fell by 31% in April 2025 compared to the previous month. Despite the overall decline, the retail sector remained a top target, with incidents at Marks & Spencer, Co-op, Harrods and Peter Green Chilled drawing national attention. Retail remains vulnerable due to its public profile...Read More
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have accused a Russian national with leading a group of cyber criminals that developed and deployed malware infecting thousands of computers worldwide, installing ransomware and extorting payment from victims, officials announced Thursday. Rustam Gallyamov, 48, of Moscow, Russia, is charged in L.A. federal court with one count of conspiracy to...Read More
DragonForce is fighting a “turf war” with rival ransomware operators as it seeks to assert its dominance in the cybercrime marketplace, according to new Sophos research. The group appears to be responsible for RansomHub’s infrastructure outage in late March 2025, which contributed to a significant fall in ransomware attacks in April. This may be the...Read More
New data from Dragos reveals that ransomware groups and their affiliates intensified operations in the first quarter of 2025, combining emerging and long-standing tactics, techniques, and procedures. Established operators such as Cl0p, Akira, and RansomHub maintained high levels of activity, while emerging threats, including FunkSec, Sarcoma, and Lynx, introduced advanced techniques like AI-driven malware and...Read More
Operation Endgame strikes the ransomware access brokers. getty The ransomware threat suffered a serious, if not fatal, injury this week as multiple law enforcement actions took aim at the global criminal enterprise. Microsoft led the way in taking down large parts of the infrastructure behind the Lumma Stealer network behind the capture and sharing of...Read More
