Ransomware has evolved from an encryption-driven attack into one monetization path within a modular criminal economy, where access to victim environments, not the ransomware payload, is now the core commodity.
TrendAI™ Research analyzed the activities of SHADOW-EARTH-79, an entity abusing the real-time ad-tech bidding process to track and profile individuals in conflict zones, sanctioned states, and other sensitive locations worldwide.
Digital assistants are becoming trusted, capable intermediaries, which inadvertently makes them a powerful new vector for social engineering. This article examines how attackers could exploit an assistant’s knowledge, influence, and ability to act on a user’s behalf.
TrendAI™ Research examines the unique dynamics and factors that influence the adoption of AI in state-aligned APT activity. The report looks into four countries (China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran) to understand why their state-aligned actors adopt AI in the ways that they do.
With a little SDR knowledge and a $20 USB dongle, attackers can read unencrypted pager messages from tens of kilometers away. Who still uses pagers in this day and age? Healthcare facilities. Goodbye, PHI.
Yahoo users are prompted to change passwords as a massive breach compromises 500 million accounts.
Cybercriminals are taking cues from legitimate enterprises and focusing on growing their operations. Different variations of ransomware-as-a-service show the evolving nature of the business.
This infographic shows how ransomware has evolved, how big the problem has become, and ways to avoid being a ransomware victim.
Developers of the Android-based banking trojan Marcher updated the malware, adding major banks in United Kingdom to its list of targets.
Austria-based Fischer Advanced Composite Components AG (FACC), a major designer and manufacturer of aircraft components and systems, falls prey to a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that cost the company over 42 million euros in losses.
This primer discusses the importance of data classification, and how organizations can implement these strategies to reduce the effects should a data breach occur.
Newly-discovered ransomware strains, CryptXXX and 7ev3n, get major updates from malware authors.
Research on the common technologies used by cybercriminals and terrorists to benefit their cause, from the services they abuse to the tools they’ve homebrewed to streamline activities.
A new ransomware strain, CryptXXX, was recently discovered making its rounds since the tail-end of March.
2026年10月22日
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