To safeguard funding, it is essential to clearly demonstrate how cybersecurity investments contribute to business outcomes that matter to executive leadership In today’s rapidly changing economic landscape, organizations worldwide are navigating uncertainties driven by inflation, recession and evolving policy requirements. These factors often prompt business leaders to reexamine budgets across all functions, including cybersecurity. As […]

Colt Online portal and Voice API platform remain offline London-headquartered telecommunications and network services provider Colt Technology Services is grappling with recovery efforts following a significant ransomware attack. The incident, which disrupted various customer-facing systems, was claimed by the Warlock ransomware gang and is believed to have resulted from exploitation of a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability. […]

Researchers at software supply chain security outfit Safety think they’ve found malware that targets Russian cryptocurrency developers, and perhaps therefore Russia’s state-linked ransomware crews Safety’s head of research Paul McCarty last week revealed his discovery of npm packages that he wrote “targeted the Solana cryptocurrency ecosystem and pretend to ‘scan’ for Solana SDK components.” The […]

The report, the fourth edition of its kind, is based on data from African law enforcement agencies, private-sector partners, and open-source intelligence. It highlights a significant increase in cybercrime, with most countries classifying it as a medium to high-level threat. A new report by INTERPOL , the Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2025 , reveals that cybercrime is […]

Huntress analysts have tracked a fresh ransomware incident involving KawaLocker, also known as KAWA4096. The variant is new, but the method is familiar. Attackers gained access, disabled defenses, and moved to encrypt files. Ransomware families surface often. A year ago, Huntress reported on ReadText34. Just last month, a never-before-seen strain called Crux appeared. KawaLocker joins […]

Nova, the cybercrime group behind a hack on the Dutch laboratory that handles population screenings, is threatening to publish more medical data. The group already leaked the medical data of nearly half a million women who participated in the cervical cancer screening. The hackers issued an ultimatum to Clinical Diagnostics on their dark web website. […]