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Russian-speaking espionage group RedCurl has been deploying ransomware on victims’ networks in a recent campaign.

GetReal Security has raised $17.5 million in series A funding to combat deepfakes, impersonation, and other AI-generated threats.

ESET uncovers a link between RansomHub, Play, Medusa, and BianLian ransomware gangs as more groups adopt tools to disable EDR software.

T-Mobile paid $33 million in a private arbitration process over a SIM swap attack leading to cryptocurrency theft.

A new ransomware group called Arkana claims to have compromised the US telecommunications provider WideOpenWest.

SplxAI has raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures to secure agentic AI systems.

macOS users are targeted with multiple versions of the ReaderUpdate malware written in Crystal, Nim, Rust, and Go programming languages.

Threat actors have started probing servers impacted by a critical-severity vulnerability in the web application development framework Next.js.

Microsoft has expanded the capabilities of Security Copilot with AI agents tackling data security, phishing, and identity management.

Charm Security has emerged from stealth mode with $8 million in funding for AI-powered scams and social engineering prevention.

Weaver Ant, a cyberespionage-focused APT operating out of China, is targeting telecom providers for persistent access.

Authorities in seven African countries arrested 300 suspects in an international crackdown on cybercriminal networks targeting businesses.

A Russian exploit acquisition firm is offering up to $4 million for a full-chain exploit targeting messaging service Telegram.

The US Department of the Treasury has removed sanctions against the fully decentralized cryptocurrency mixer service Tornado Cash.

The Medusa ransomware relies on a malicious Windows driver to disable the security tools running on the infected systems.

New versions of the Albabat ransomware target Windows, Linux, and macOS, and retrieve configuration files from GitHub.

The Cloak ransomware group has claimed responsibility for a February cyberattack on Virginia Attorney General’s Office.

Cato Networks discovers a new LLM jailbreak technique that relies on creating a fictional world to bypass a model’s security controls.

The FishMonger APT group, a subdivision of Chinese cybersecurity firm I-Soon, compromised seven organizations in a 2022 campaign.

The Hellcat ransomware group claims to have stolen tens of gigabytes of data from Ascom and Jaguar Land Rover.