Arctic Glacier Premium Ice, a manufacturer and distributor of packaged ice products, has experienced a major data breach. On July 22, 2025, the ransomware group known as Qilin claimed responsibility for a cyberattack. The cybercriminals posted on the dark web that they had successfully infiltrated the company’s systems and exfiltrated sensitive organizational data. The exact...Read More

K-12 schools continue to be one of the top targets of ransomware gangs, analyses by cybersecurity companies show. Ransomware attacks against schools, colleges, and universities globally increased 23% year over year in the first half of 2025, finds a July 2 analysis from Comparitech, a website that reviews cybersecurity products. Additionally, a survey of 1,500...Read More

Cybersecurity firm SonicWall has officially addressed recent concerns about a potential new zero-day vulnerability in its Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSLVPN) products. In a statement to Cybersecurity News, the company confirmed that recent ransomware attacks are not the result of a new flaw, but are instead linked to a previously identified and patched...Read More

Experts warn Akira is using SonicWall VPNs to deploy two drivers One is a legitimate, vulnerable driver that allows the other one to be executed The other one disables antivirus and endpoint protection tools Akira ransomware has dominated the headlines recently due to its abuse of SonicWall SSL VPNs to gain initial access and deploy...Read More

The talking point from Ingram Micro’s second-quarter results was always going to be the response to the ransomware attack that hit the firm in early July. The disite indicated that the performance was at the top end of expectations for the three months ended 28 June, with net sales coming in at $12.8bn and...Read More

According to Cyber Daily’s exclusive report, the group claimed that approximately 365 gigabytes of data were taken from the firm, including financial documents, contracts, personal identification records, client correspondence, and database contents. Source link .........................Read More

Cybersecurity teams have confronted a rising threat from a novel “EDR killer” payload in recent months, commonly referred to as AVKiller, which has been observed disabling endpoint defenses to facilitate the deployment of ransomware. First detected in mid-2024, this tool leverages the HeartCrypt packer-as-a-service to obscure its true functionality and slip past traditional static signature...Read More

SonicWall said it’s actively investigating reports to determine if there is a new zero-day vulnerability following reports of a spike in Akira ransomware actors in late July 2025. “Over the past 72 hours, there has been a notable increase in both internally and externally reported cyber incidents involving Gen 7 SonicWall firewalls where SSLVPN is...Read More

New research has found that 31% of ransomware victims suffered multiple attacks in the last 12 months, highlighting the ongoing challenge presented by security fragmentation and ineffective defences in organisational IT environments. The Ransomware Insights Report 2025, published by Barracuda, draws on a survey of 2,000 IT and security decision-makers from North America, Europe, and...Read More

Threat actors are placing a higher priority on neutralizing endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems in order to remain stealthy in the dynamic world of multi-stage cyberattacks. Since 2022, malware sophistication has surged, with tools specifically engineered to disable EDR on compromised endpoints. These utilities, often developed by ransomware affiliates or sourced from underground markets,...Read More