Cybercriminals allegedly broke into tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways used by major companies around the world, turning one of business cybersecurity’s most trusted front doors into the story itself. Security researchers have called the campaign FortiBleed. Fortinet, however, says the activity does not come from a new vulnerability or recent security...Read More
Cybersecurity threats rarely stand still. Attackers innovate at pace, probing weaknesses not only in systems but with the assumption organisations make about how those systems are protected. A recent development linked to The Gentlemen ransomware‑as‑a‑service (RaaS) ecosystem illustrates this shift clearly. The group is reported to be developing GentleKiller, a framework designed to disable endpoint...Read More
With evidence that the tools had overlapping infrastructure, company attorneys invoked RICO statutes that target organized crime; the legal action was then able to treat both tools as part of a single conspiracy. As a result, Microsoft said, it disrupted more than 200 command-and-control servers and severed criminal control of more than 18,000 infected computers....Read More
An attacker exploited a previously unknown and unpatched Cisco vulnerability earlier this year to infiltrate a communications service provider and gain the highest level of access possible, Mandiant said Wednesday. Cisco has since patched the flaw, one of seven actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities this year in its SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) software used to...Read More
The rapid rise of advanced artificial intelligence models capable of identifying software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed is creating one of the biggest opportunities the cybersecurity industry has seen in years, according to Zscaler founder and chief executive Jay Chaudhry. “There has never been a time in cyber where there’s more need for cybersecurity than we...Read More
The backdoor itself reaches out to a command-and-control (C2) server and can execute code delivered from it directly in memory, without saving any file on disk. Other features include the ability to write, delete, and move files on the victim machine and to download and upload files to the C2 server. The researchers have also...Read More
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Proposal Would Strengthen Cybersecurity Standards, Incident Reporting, and Utility Preparedness Across Regulated Industries HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today voted 5-0 to approve a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) that would strengthen cybersecurity requirements for regulated utilities, continuing the Commission’s efforts to help protect critical utility infrastructure and maintain safe, reliable service for Pennsylvania...Read More
Inside GentleKiller: The EDR-Killer Powering The Gentlemen Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2026 The Gentlemen equips affiliates with a centralized EDR-killer suite, rapidly weaponizing BYOVD exploits to disable security tools before ransomware attacks. ESET published a detailed breakdown of The Gentlemen‘s technical infrastructure on June 18, the result of months of incident-level investigation corroborated by the...Read More
