Tag: ransomware as a service
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Ransomware Exclusive: Stunning Worst Surge of 2025
Think ransomware was fading? The 2025 ransomware surge proves otherwise—smarter, faster attacks (retail incidents jumped 58% in Q2) are crippling stores, exposing data and stretching insurers and regulators to the breaking point.
Security Leaders Exclusive: Alarming Marquis Breach Insight
The Marquis data breach forces a simple but urgent question: when a trusted provider is compromised, who pays — the vendor, its customers, or the wider ecosystem? With attackers evolving faster than defenders, security leaders say it’s time to rethink third‑party and supply‑chain risk.
Cyber-Insurance Payouts Soar 230% UK Stunning Costly Spike
Think cyber insurance is a safety net? With UK payouts up 230% in 2024, rising ransoms and recovery bills are forcing businesses and regulators to rethink who will shoulder the real cost of cyber attacks.
Qilin Ransomware Exclusive: Damaging Surge Hits Small Firms
Qilin ransomware has evolved into a commercialized threat that turns simple security lapses—phishing, weak credentials or exposed remote access—into crippling double‑extortion attacks on small and mid-sized firms. With affiliates and leak sites amplifying its reach, now’s the time for SMBs to shore up the basics before opportunistic criminals profit.
DragonForce Cartel Exclusive Deadly Conti Ransomware Threat
Get an exclusive look at how the DragonForce Cartel is unleashing the deadly Conti Ransomware—and learn who’s at risk and simple steps you can take to protect yourself.
Conti Suspect Shocking Court Debut Shows Damaging Leads
A Ukrainian national’s U.S. court debut in a Conti-related ransomware case pulled back the curtain on how cybercrime now moves like commerce—crossing borders, inflicting massive economic harm, and leaving a trail of damaging leads. The indictment is just the opening move in a complex fight to hold this near‑industrial extortion trade to account.
Leak Site Ransomware Victims: Alarming 13% Spike Exclusive
Wake-up call: ransomware victims in Europe surged 13% year‑on‑year as criminals adopt stealthy, profit-driven tactics—RATs, data theft and public leak sites—to extract bigger payoffs. Businesses, governments and households need to rethink defenses now before they become the next target.
Qilin Ransomware Exclusive: Alarming 40+ Cases Monthly
Qilin ransomware is surging — over 40 incidents monthly — using double‑extortion leak sites that weaponize stolen files into lasting reputational damage. Is your organization prepared to respond beyond just restoring backups?
Collaboration and AI: Stunning Best Defense for Agencies
Collaboration and AI are becoming the winning lifeline for federal agencies facing smarter, faster cyberattacks. By pairing shared threat intelligence with machine-speed detection and response, agencies can turn fragmented defenses into proactive, resilient security.
Security Leaders: Exclusive, Alarming Threat Evolution
Security leaders face an urgent choice: overhaul defenses now or accept a rising tide of risk. Threat evolution has accelerated — commodified crimeware, AI-driven automation and sprawling attack surfaces mean attackers are moving faster than most organizations can respond.
60% of Security Leaders: Stunning, Critical Threat Shift
Sixty percent of security leaders warn that threat actors are evolving too quickly for organizations to keep up. Commodified cybercrime, automation and an expanding attack surface are squeezing defenders’ time to detect, respond and contain — and the consequences are real.
LockBit Exclusive: Critical New Victims Revealed
LockBit keeps changing its playbook—September telemetry uncovered roughly a dozen incidents, about half tied to a new strain that can hit Windows, Linux and hypervisors. That cross‑platform reach broadens the blast radius from a single breach and forces defenders to rethink old assumptions.
LockBit Ransomware Exclusive: Severe Victims Revealed
An updated LockBit variant—faster, stealthier and able to run native payloads on Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi—has been tied to a dozen recent intrusions, dramatically shrinking the window defenders have to detect and stop catastrophic outages.