Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated. In a Tuesday 8-K filing to America’s Securities and Exchange Commission, the metals magnate said some of its facilities had been shut down while an unnamed third-party security company investigates an attack against “certain information technology...Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks—which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files—have become the primary driver of health care data breaches in the United States,...Read More

The SAP NetWeaver vulnerability case took an interesting turn Wednesday when the Russian ransomware group BianLian and the operators of RansomEXX were tied to exploitations of the NetWeaver bug.The news of the exploitation by Russian ransomware gangs was in contrast to recent reports by Forescout Vedere Labs that China-based threat groups were involved in the...Read More

Ransomware gangs have joined ongoing SAP NetWeaver attacks, exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain remote code execution on vulnerable servers. SAP released emergency patches on April 24 to address this NetWeaver Visual Composer unauthenticated file upload security flaw (CVE-2025-31324), days after it was first tagged by cybersecurity company ReliaQuest as targeted...Read More

May 12 marks Anti-Ransomware Day, a global awareness initiative created by INTERPOL and Kaspersky to commemorate the 2017 WannaCry outbreak. That infamous ransomware campaign crippled hundreds of thousands of systems worldwide, from UK hospitals to global logistics networks, and its modern descendants are more dangerous, stealthier and relentlessly adaptive. While WannaCry marked a turning point,...Read More

Anti-Ransomware Day reminds us that ransomware is a business crisis waiting to unfold. Initiated by INTERPOL and Kaspersky in 2020, this global awareness day marks the anniversary of the infamous WannaCry outbreak—a ransomware attack that paralyzed systems in over 150 countries. It’s a call to move beyond reactive thinking and get serious about preparedness. Yet...Read More

Malware is a thing you just have to be aware of. But it’s pretty rare that it can actually damage your computer in a permanent sense — wipe the drive if you’re okay with losing local data, and you can generally get up and running in a day or two. But what if the microcode...Read More

New type of ransomware that utilizes agentic AI for faster, more effective attacks anticipated to become a threat TAMPA BAY, Fla., May 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today announced a prediction that agentic AI ransomware will become a new threat in the near future, recognized...Read More

North Korea has been covertly expanding its fake IT worker scheme that facilitates ransomware intrusions, cryptocurrency compromise, and malicious software distribution with the help of Chinese front companies, Cybersecurity Dive reports.Aside from a U.S.-sanctioned Chinese firm delivering computers and network equipment to North Korean IT workers, there were 35 other entities associated with the said...Read More

At the RSA Conference, members of the international Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) coalition, including the U.S., Germany, Italy, Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, UAE, Netherlands, and others, convened to discuss establishing trust, exchanging information, and collaborating on the Crystal Ball Platform for collective defense and global resiliency under the CRI.  At present, more than 30 nations,...Read More