Pakistan’s National Cyber Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has issued urgent warnings to 39 government ministries following a sophisticated ransomware campaign targeting the country’s critical infrastructure. The Blue Locker ransomware has successfully compromised Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), the nation’s second-largest oil company, in an attack that occurred on August 6, 2025, just days before Pakistan’s Independence...Read More
Scattered Spider is a term used in the cybersecurity industry to describe a cluster of activity tied to social engineering, credential theft, SIM swapping, ransomware deployment, and data theft and extortion. The group has been active across Telegram communities including The Com, Star Fraud, LAPSUS$, and more recently, scattered lapsus$ hunters. Aliases such as SpidermanData,...Read More
Ransomware attacks targeting industrial entities dropped slightly in the second quarter of 2025, and while that news is welcome, the number of attacks remains worrying. Operational technology security firm Dragos tracked 657 ransomware incidents targeting industrial entities in the April-June period, down from 708 in the previous quarter.
“Though the quantity of observed incidents...Read More
Colt Technology Services is experiencing a “cyber incident” that has forced the company to shut down some services temporarily. On August 14, the London-based telecommunications giant publicly confirmed that an internal system was breached. Although this system was disconnected from its customer-facing infrastructure, the company has taken some systems offline in respond to the incident....Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the seizure of over $2.8 million in cryptocurrency, $70,000 in cash, and a luxury vehicle linked to Zeppelin ransomware operations. The warrants were unsealed on August 14, 2025, in federal courts across Virginia, California, and Texas. Authorities allege that the assets belong to Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko, who has...Read More
Data Privacy , Data Security , Healthcare Settlement Includes Corrective Action Plan Focused on Improving Risk Analysis Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • August 18, 2025 Image: BST An investigation into a ransomware breach reported in 2020 that affected the protected personal information of 170,000 people led to a $175,000 fine against a certified...Read More
Welcome Financial Group lending unit suffers ransomware attack, internal documents exposed Korea JoongAng Daily Source link .........................Read More
