This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 21, 2026 – Read the full story in StationX Nathan House, founder and CEO at StationX, one of the UK’s
The designations hit 1VPNS, its alleged Ukrainian administrator and a Belarusian who allegedly sold “cryptors” to disguise ransomware and other malware. The post Treasury sanctions First VPN Service,
Instead of helping victims negotiate with BlackCat, a trusted ransomware negotiator secretly helped the gang extort them.
Karen Vardanyan faces up to 15 years in federal prison and agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution. The post Armenian national pleads guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks appeared first on Cyber
Angelo Martino exploited his insider position and fed confidential information to ransomware co-conspirators to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S.-based victims. The post Former DigitalMin
GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational platform. This blog analyzes how the malware incorporates code from several
The AI agent didn’t accomplish every step in the late June 2026 attack, but it allowed the threat actor to significantly reduce complexity, speed up the tempo and gain operational advantages. The post
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 6th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES River Bank & Trust, a US financial institution, ha
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways Introduction Over the past several years, large language models have reshaped software development, and malware development has followed the same path.
From outsourced labor to tiered pricing models, an inside look at how today's top ransomware threats operate less like rogue hackers and more like Fortune 500 companies. The post How ransomware syndic
Kaspersky researchers analyze incidents related to The Gentlemen RaaS group, disclose their tools and TTPs, and find a new ransomware variant.
Ransomware case reveals two parallel threat actors, blending tactics and evasion—showing why isolated signals can often miss modern, overlapping cyberattacks. The post One intrusion, two cyberattacker
Oleksii Lytvynenko, a 44-year-old Ukrainian national, admitted to joining the prolific cybercrime group in 2021. Officials said he engaged in cybercrime up until his arrest in Ireland in 2023. The pos
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
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
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
The post 100+ Companies Ransomware Spree appeared first on InfoStealers .
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,
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
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
