Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security tools and EDRs running on target machines. The abused driver is ‘rwdrv.sys’ (used by ThrottleStop), which the threat actors register as a service to gain kernel-level access. This driver is likely used to load a second driver, […]

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Researchers See ‘Acceleration’ in Existing Threats, Ongoing Criminal Success Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 6, 2025     Image: Cursor/Shutterstock Cybercrime so far this year can be summarized as featuring “more of everything,” with researchers tracking increases in the number of ransomware and data breach victims, […]

Manassas Park City Schools notified the community recently it was the victim of a data breach that could have exposed personal information. The school division became aware of the data incident on June 13, at which time an investigation began. “To date, our investigation revealed that malicious actors gained access to MPCS’s network on or […]

Researchers at Infoblox have released new findings on VexTrio, a large criminal enterprise that uses a set of traffic distribution systems (TDSs), lookalike domains and registered domain generation algorithms (RDGAs) to deliver malware, scams and illegal content. The researchers have been able to link nine individuals, shell companies and a sprawling infrastructure to the global […]

DaVita reveals more on effects of April 2025 ransomware attack The Interlock group stole sensitive files on thousands of people Affected patients offered free identity theft monitoring US healthcare company DaVit has revealed it suffered a ransomware attack and a data breach earlier this year which saw patient data stolen. The company, which specializes in […]

06 Aug The Growing Impact Of AI And Quantum On Cybersecurity Posted at 08:17h in Blogs by Taylor Fox This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 6, 2025 – Read the full story in Forbes The amalgamation of artificial intelligence (AI) with quantum computing will transform existing computational […]

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a major data leak at a Florida-based data solutions provider, IMDataCenter. The leak exposed a massive database containing personal details of users and client companies. The misconfigured database, with CSV and PDF files, contained a staggering 38GB of information from 10,820 records and was left wide open on the internet […]

Advocacy June 26, 2025 McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. V. McKesson Corporation could make it more difficult for counties to challenge FCC orders, many of which have taken steps to preempt and curtail local authority by limiting counties’ abilities to manage their own right of way and assess fair market value permitting and impact fees on providers seeking to construct, […]

US-based kidney dialysis provider DaVita has confirmed that sensitive personal and clinical data was stolen from its systems, impacting over 900,000 customers. The incident, which is reportedly ransomware-related, began on March 24, 2025, and continued until the threat actor was blocked from DaVita servers on April 12. An investigation revealed that the attacker accessed and […]

MANASSAS PARK, Va. – The folks at Manassas Park City Schools just told Potomac Local News they were the target of a ransomware attack back in June—and some personal information might’ve been exposed. The school division says it first learned of the incident on June 13, 2025, and quickly brought in IT staff and outside […]