IABs facilitate initial infections via their own operations and may sell their access to ransomware operators. Microsoft, for instance, observed Gootloader (Hive0127, Storm-0494) handing off access to Vanilla Tempest to load the Supper backdoor before deploying INC ransomware in September 2024. In November 2025, Huntress documented similar observations where Gootloader infections lead to Tomb-crypted Supper backdoor...Read More
After regaining access through Amazon support, she discovered someone purchased six laptops using her credit card and tried to cancel the orders, but several were refused. One man has been arrested in Horry County after a woman reported her Amazon account had been hacked. On Sunday, the victim informed police that her Amazon account was...Read More
The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) and the rest of the cybersecurity stocks fared in Q1. Cybersecurity continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments within software for...Read More
A Ukrainian national extradited from Ireland to the United States last year has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges tied to the Conti ransomware operation. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that 44-year-old Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks conducted between 2021 and...Read More
A longtime former member of Conti, a ransomware group that attacked more than 1,000 organizations globally before it disbanded in 2022, pleaded guilty to participating in some of those attacks in federal court Wednesday, the Justice Department said. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, also known as Alexsey Alexseevich Litvinenko, admitted he joined the prolific cybercrime group in...Read More
Have you ever gotten a message from a Facebook account that was just an emoji, and nothing else? Have you ever been browsing a news page on Facebook and seen a post in the comments saying they had a live video of the incident in question? Or have you ever clicked a link and been...Read More
Webflow web design agency Absurdity took the cyber security marketing agency category on the strength of client results, including major design and development projects across design, web development, SEO, and martech integrations June 12, 2026 – Webflow web design agency Absurdity has been named Best Cybersecurity Marketing Agency in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards, presented...Read More
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad police commissioner V.C. Sajjanar unveiled a special multilingual brochure designed to create awareness among bank employees on cybercrime prevention and response mechanisms, at an event here on Friday. The programme was held as part of measures to strengthen vigilance against rising cyber frauds and sensitise banking staff on their role in prevention. RBI...Read More
Remember last week when Meta’s handy AI chatbot helped hackers breach high-profile Instagram accounts? Well, it looks like the fallout from that is much bigger than previously reported, with more than 20,000 accounts being breached using the same method, and the attacks started back in mid-April. We may never have learned of the scope if...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 11, 2026Endpoint Security / Vulnerability Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare) has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass dubbed GreatXML, a day after they published an exploit for Microsoft Defender. “This was an accidental discovery, it took a total of 4 hours to find this,” the researcher said in a post...Read More
