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Why Hospitals Pay Ransom to Hackers

Targets in western countries are picked with care, since hospitals and critical services face lives at risk and heavy legal fallout after breaches. When attackers weigh up ransom against long court battles and recovery costs, payment becomes the path many victims choose, feeding the growth of cybercrime. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

How Hospitals Sustain Patient Care When Systems Go Dark

In this episode of Building Cyber Resilience: A Healthcare Leader’s Guide, host Josh Howell speaks with Drex DeFord, veteran healthcare CIO, strategist, and President of 229 Cyber & Risk at This Week Health. Drawing on decades of experience leading technology and transformation across organizations like the U.S. Air Force, Seattle Children’s, Scripps Health, and Steward Healthcare, Drex explores what it really takes to sustain patient care when cyberattacks force systems offline.

From Operations to Policy: Contributing to the Global Fight Against Ransomware

Today, the government of Canada issued a statement announcing that Arctic Wolf will continue to co-chair the Counter Ransomware Initiative Public-Private Sector Advisory Panel in 2026, alongside Public Safety Canada and BlackBerry. The panel will also include member organizations such as Ensign InfoSecurity, the Institute for Security and Technology, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and the Royal United Service Institute.

Cato CTRL Threat Research: Foxveil - New Malware Loader Abusing Cloudflare, Discord, and Netlify as Staging Infrastructure

Cato CTRL has identified a previously undocumented malware loader we track as “Foxveil.” We observed evidence that the malware campaign has been active since August 2025, and we observed two distinct variants (v1 and v2). Foxveil behaves like a modern initial-stage loader: it establishes an initial foothold, frustrates analysis, and retrieves next-stage payloads from threat actor-controlled staging hosted on Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and, in some cases, Discord attachments.

Why Your "Skill Scanner" Is Just False Security (and Maybe Malware)

Maybe you’re an AI builder, or maybe you’re a CISO. You've just authorized the use of AI agents for your dev team. You know the risks, including data exfiltration, prompt injection, and unvetted code execution. So when your lead engineer comes to you and says, "Don't worry, we're using Skill Defender from ClawHub to scan every new Skill," you breathe a sigh of relief. You checked the box. But have you checked this Skills scanner?

Detect OPERATOR PANDA at the Edge with Falcon Adversary Overwatch

CrowdStrike Falcon Adversary Overwatch: ► Detect adversaries hiding in your blind spots. Falcon Adversary Overwatch exposes threats targeting network edge devices—firewalls, routers, and infrastructure traditional security tools can’t see. Watch the demo to see how CrowdStrike detects OPERATOR PANDA in real time and stops edge-driven intrusions that quickly turn into credential theft and identity abuse before they escalate.

How a Malicious Google Skill on ClawHub Tricks Users Into Installing Malware

You ask your OpenClaw agent to "check my Gmail." It replies, "I need to install the Google Services Action skill first. Shall I proceed?" You say yes. The agent downloads the skill from ClawHub. It reads the instructions. Then, it pauses. "This skill requires the 'openclaw-core' utility to function," the agent reports, displaying a helpful download link from the skill's README. "Please run this installer to continue." You copy the command. You paste it into your terminal. You have just been compromised.

LevelBlue SpiderLabs: Breaking Down the Ransomware Groups Targeting the Education Sector

Ransomware attack groups have ramped up their efforts, launching attacks on the education sector with recent incidents striking a range of targets from an Australian institution of higher learning to a school district in North Carolina. These facilities contain a large amount of very valuable data, such as student records, intellectual property, and financial information that threat groups can leverage for financial gain. An additional reason education is targeted is that it must stay in operation.

New Malware Kit Promises Guaranteed Publication in the Chrome Web Store

A new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) kit called “Stanley” is offering users guaranteed publication in the Chrome Web Store, bypassing Google’s security verification process, according to researchers at Varonis. “For $2,000 to $6,000, Stanley provides a turnkey website-spoofing operation disguised as a Chrome extension, with its premium tier promising guaranteed publication on the Chrome Web Store,” Varonis says.

Why Cybersecurity is the Core of Corporate Survival

Is your business ready for a digital ambush? It's a loaded question, sure. But not a hypothetical one. In today's landscape, it's practically rhetorical. One phishing scam, one rogue USB stick, one "I'll-just-connect-to-this-coffee-shop-Wi-Fi-for-a-minute" moment and everything can unravel. You'd think big companies would be immune with all their resources, right? Tell that to MGM Resorts, which hemorrhaged over $100 million in 2023 due to a single compromised login. A phone call. That's all it took.