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avast

AI meets ransomware: a new cyber threat

Jul 31, 2025 By Brittany Posey In Avast
AI is powering a new wave of ransomware. Learn how Avast stopped FunkSec's attack and how you can protect your files from evolving cyber threats. Ransomware has long been one of the most feared cyber threats on the internet, and for good reason. It’s fast, disruptive, and increasingly effective at locking up your most important files and demanding payment in exchange for their return. It’s not just businesses that get hit, either.
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knowbe4

Malicious Connectors Potentially Impact Hundreds of Millions of Microsoft 365 Users

Jul 31, 2025 By Roger Grimes In KnowBe4
Most Microsoft 365 users aren’t aware of this recently growing serious email threat vector. I have been teaching about the risks of Microsoft email rules, forms and connectors on email clients and servers for decades. Both can be created by an attacker learning your email address and logon credentials (e.g., password or MFA codes).
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bitsight

Anubis and the Death of Data: A New Era of Ransomware Operations

Jul 30, 2025 By Emma Stevens In BitSight
Ransomware activity continues to increase, and Bitsight data illustrates the scale of this growth. In our State of the Underground 2025 report, Bitsight TRACE observed a nearly 25% rise in unique ransomware victims publicly listed on leak sites. Additionally, the number of leak sites operated by ransomware groups grew by 53%.
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Enterprise SAN Data Recovery: Protecting Critical Systems from Catastrophic Loss

Enterprise SAN Data Recovery: Protecting Critical Systems from Catastrophic Loss

Jul 30, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The current world of business is a world of the digital age, where enterprise operations are greatly dependent on the constant availability of data. With the growth of organizations ' storage facilities, Storage Area Networks (SANs) have worked as the medium of fast, scalable, and reliable access to data. Nevertheless, SAN systems are pretty dangerous when they break down (be it a system hardware trouble, hacking, or human negligence), as the consequences may be disastrous.
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Internxt

Ransomware As A Service: Understanding the Risks

Jul 29, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
As companies invest in cybersecurity to avoid fines and ransomware payouts, criminals are doing the opposite by turning ransomware into a full-blown business. With ransomware as a service (RaaS), cybercriminals are building revenue streams by selling ransomware kits online. This model doesn’t require technical skills or deep knowledge of hacking.
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foresiet

AURA Stealer: A Crude Clone of LummaC2 - Technical Analysis and Threat Breakdown

Jul 29, 2025 By Foresiet In Foresiet
AURA Stealer is a newly emerging information-stealing malware that presents itself as a streamlined alternative to more established stealer families such as LummaC2. Marketed as a carefully engineered solution, AURA is positioned by its developers as purpose-built for efficiency and results—eschewing unnecessary complexity in favor of a focused and modular design.
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bitsight

ToxicPanda: The Android Banking Trojan Targeting Europe

Jul 28, 2025 By Pedro Falé In BitSight
ToxicPanda is a banking trojan designed to infiltrate your mobile device, stealing financial details by targeting banking & financial apps. The malware keeps evolving, with the developers behind it being quick to add new features, such as overlaying pin & pattern codes, overlaying credential inputs for specific banking apps, allowing cybercriminals to remotely take control of compromised bank accounts and initiate unauthorized money transfers.
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netskope

XWorm V6: Advanced Evasion and AMSI Bypass Capabilities Revealed

Jul 28, 2025 By Jan Michael Alcantara In Netskope
In September 2024, Netskope Threat Labs reported on the XWorm malware and its infection chain. We revealed new XWorm command and control (C2) commands and dissected its notable features. After nearly a year of tracking this malware, we discovered a new version (version 6.0) in the wild, which introduced new features such as process protection and enhanced anti-analysis capabilities.
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netwrix

Ransomware Detection and Response: Strengthening Your Cyber Resilience

Jul 28, 2025 By Kevin Joyce In Netwrix
In 2024, the average ransom payment surged to nearly $4 million, more than double the previous year, while over 70% of ransomware incidents involved data encryption (Source: The Latest Ransomware Statistics & Trends ). These figures underscore the growing scale and sophistication of ransomware threats. As attackers refine their tactics and target critical infrastructure, organizations must adopt a more strategic and proactive approach to detection and response.
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