The US government is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-backed threat actors linked to the RedLine malware, including its suspected developer, Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov. The State Department, which administers the Rewards for Justice, urges anyone with information on Rudometov, his associates, and their malicious cyber activities to contact the Tor-based tips-reporting […]

New research from Delinea shows that 69% of organisations worldwide were breached by ransomware in the past year, with artificial intelligence quickly reshaping the capabilities of both cyber attackers and defenders. The 2025 State of Ransomware Report, based on input from more than 1,000 IT and security leaders globally, highlights that over a quarter of […]

AT&T is investigating claims that millions of its customers’ data are listed for sale on a cybercrime forum in what appears to be a re-release from an earlier hack. “It is not uncommon for cybercriminals to re-package previously disclosed data for financial gain,” an AT&T spokesperson told The Register. “We just learned about claims that […]

This year is shaping up to be a turning point in defense tactics.  We’ve already seen major disruptions across the ransomware ecosystem. Groups like LockBit and RansomHub have gone dark or been disrupted, prompting a flurry of speculation. But if defenders are hoping this signals a downturn in attacks, they’ll be disappointed. Newly emergent groups […]

Recently, Russia signed a joint “International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security” agreement with several authoritarian governments to include but not limited to Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. The agreement asserts that the motivation behind this agreement is to sustain “transparent and equitable system of international information security based on the principles […]

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Australian Cyber Security Centre June 4 released an advisory on updated actions and tactics used by the Play ransomware group. The group, active since 2022, has impacted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure in North America, South America and Europe. As of May, the FBI […]

Hundreds of U.S. water utilities have bolstered the security of their industrial control systems after working with researchers who discovered that their highly sensitive equipment was accessible from the internet. The security firm Censys discovered in late 2024 that nearly 400 human-machine interfaces — which allow workers to control industrial systems in water facilities and […]