A critical Palo Alto PAN-OS zero-day is being exploited in the wild

The vendor hasn’t released a patch for the vulnerability or described the scope and objective of confirmed attacks.

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Latvian national sentenced for ransomware attacks run by former Conti leaders

Deniss Zolotarjovs was mostly tasked with putting pressure on the Russia-based crew’s victims, in one case leaking hundreds of children’s health records.

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‘Copy Fail’ is a real Linux security crisis wrapped in AI slop

The actively exploited defect could affect every mainstream Linux distribution built since 2017, but some researchers found Theori’s AI-generated disclosure unhelpful and lacking.

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Former incident responders sentenced to 4 years in prison for committing ransomware attacks

Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin attacked five companies in 2023 and extorted nearly $1.3 million from one of their victims.

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Two new extortion crews are speedrunning the Scattered Spider playbook

CrowdStrike says The Com-affiliated threat groups are using voice phishing and fake SSO pages to break into SaaS environments and steal data fast for extortion.

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Chinese national extradited to US for pandemic-era Silk Typhoon attacks

Xu Zewei was allegedly directed by China’s intelligence services to conduct a sweeping espionage campaign to steal data on COVID-19 research and other U.S. policy interests.

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BlackFile actively extorting data-theft victims in retail and hospitality sector

Some attackers, which researchers link to The Com, have swatted company executives to increase leverage and pressure victims to pay their ransom demands.

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Vercel attack fallout expands to more customers and third-party systems

The company said it found more evidence of compromise across its customer base. Exposure, which has yet to be defined, poses significant downstream risk.

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Former DigitalMint ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to extortion scheme

Angelo Martino helped accomplices extort a combined $75.3 million in ransom payments from five victim companies.

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Scottish man pleads guilty to attack spree that created Scattered Spider’s notoriety

Tyler Robert Buchanan “was the glue that held this gang together,” a cybercrime researcher said. He faces up to 22 years in federal prison.

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