Free Spotify Premium hacks on social media are spreading infostealers
Cybercriminals are turning TikTok and Instagram Reels into malware delivery platforms, using free software tutorials to spread infostealers.
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Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strateg
Pirated PC games are delivering password-stealing malware
Cybercriminals are hiding malware in cracked and repacked games, infecting more than 400,000 devices worldwide.
500 Ransomware Statistics For 2026
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 3, 2026 – Read the full story from Bright Defense Ransomware has existed for more than 35 years and rem
Sri Lanka CERT Reports Sharp Rise In Phishing And Ransomware Incidents
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – May. 28, 2026 – Read the full story in Daily Mirror Hilmy Cader warns that the intensity and sophistica
OverlayPhantom: The Android Banking Trojan Hiding in Plain Sight
Executive Summary Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has identified a novel Android banking trojan, dubbed OverlayPhantom, actively distributed in the wild via malicious URLs. The malware emp
Infostealers Just Spawned a 5,000+ Repo GitHub Supply Chain Attack
Megalodon: How Infostealers Spawned the 5,000+ Repo GitHub Supply Chain Attack Megalodon: Infostealers Just Spawned a 5,000+ Repo GitHub Supply Chain Attack The cybersecurity community was recently ro
50+ Company Data Breach Spree
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100+ Companies Ransomware Spree
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GCC Cyber 2026: How Digital Banking Expansion Is Creating a New Attack Surface Attackers Are Already Exploiting
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has spent the last several years building one of the world’s most ambitious digital economies. Across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE,
One compromise, a thousand victims: why ransomware is turning to supply chain attacks
With an extortion toll running to tens of billions of dollars, few experts would dispute that ransomware is the most consequential cybercrime business model yet devised. But even the most successful b
Simplifying MBA obfuscation with CoBRA
Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation disguises simple operations like x + y behind tangles of arithmetic and bitwise operators. Malware authors and software protectors rely on it because no stan
Under pressure, ransomware returnsto its extortion roots
After years of success, it looks as if the era where ransomware gangs could make easy money from data leak extortion might finally have ended. Despite its huge success, extortion-led ransomware is a s
Nitrogen Ransomware: ESXi malware has a bug!
Nitrogen ransomware was derived from the previously leaked Conti 2 builder code, and is similar to Nitrogen ransomware, but a coding mistake in the ESXi malware causes it to encrypt all the files with
Ransomware doesn’t need AI when simple weaknesses leave the door standing ajar
After reading recent reports of AI’s impact on cybercrime, one might assume that the world is about to enter an era of frightening, AI-powered ransomware attacks. As Trend Micro put it in its November
Is Africa the next ransomware hotspot?
Between October and November 2025, one of the biggest cybercrime operations in Interpol history saw the arrest of 574 people suspected of business email compromise (BEC), digital extortion, and ransom
Obscura Ransomware: A Case Study in Ransomware Data Loss
Discover how Obscura ransomware corrupts encrypted files beyond recovery, and why technical validation is key to smart ransom response decisions
The era of AI ransomware is bad news for everyone – including ransomware criminals
There’s no escaping AI’s tightening grip on the technology industry, and it turns out that ransomware criminals are just as susceptible to the reality-bending excitement as anyone else. According to a
How ransomware turned from a private misery into a national emergency
It’s nearly 20 years since I first encountered ransomware as the security editor of an online computer magazine, although at the time I had no idea what it was and the term had not yet been coined to
Nearly one-third of ransomware victims are hit multiple times, even after paying hackers
More than three-in-ten ransomware victims are being hit multiple times, thanks to ineffective defenses and security fragmentation. According to Barracuda Networks’ Ransomware Insights Report, 57