Continuous Monitoring and Protection
In March 2024, an affiliate of the BlackCat ransomware gang took to a cybercrime forum with a complaint. They’d carried out the attack on Change Healthcare – one of the largest healthcare data breaches in U.S. history – but never got their cut of the $22 million ransom payment. BlackCat’s operators had taken the money and vanished, putting up a fake FBI seizure notice on their leak site to cover the exit. The grievance almost…
Read MoreA 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology companies and steal tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from investors. Buchanan’s hacker handle “Tylerb” once graced a…
Read MoreThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is releasing this alert to provide guidance in response to the software supply chain compromise of the Axios node package manager (npm).1 Axios is an HTTP client for JavaScript that developers commonly use in Node.js and browser environments. On March 31, 2026, two npm packages for versions axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4 of Axios npm injected the malicious dependency plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 that downloads multi-stage payloads from cyber threat actor infrastructure, including…
Read MoreIgnoring a real breach notification invites risk, but falling for a bogus one could be even worse. Stop reacting on autopilot. Phil Muncaster 17 Apr 2026 • , 5 min. read Receiving a data breach notice may have once been a rare event. With data breaches hitting record numbers, however, these notifications are no longer as surprising as they once were. In the US alone, there were 3,322 such breaches reported last year, resulting in…
Read MoreSome cyber business risks only show up when you take a closer look. Supply chain blind spots are a perfect example. Behind these essential third-party connections, products and services can lurk unseen vulnerabilities that precipitate major cyber incidents – halting operations, triggering downstream chaos, and making headlines with their financial, reputational, and legal/compliance impacts. As supply chains become increasingly digitized and complex, they provide cybercriminals a bigger “risk surface” to aim for. Organizations need to…
Read MoreMicrosoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed “BlueHammer.” Separately, Google Chrome fixed its fourth zero-day of 2026, and an emergency update for Adobe Reader nixes an actively exploited flaw that can lead to remote code execution. Redmond warns that attackers are already targeting CVE-2026-32201, a vulnerability in Microsoft…
Read MoreIf you’ve been the victim of fraud, you’re likely already a lead on a ‘sucker list’ – and if you’re not careful, your ordeal may be about to get worse. Phil Muncaster 10 Apr 2026 • , 5 min. read The worst thing you can do after falling victim to fraud is let your guard down. Online scammers only care about one thing: making money, so when new opportunities arise to do just that, they…
Read MoreBusiness Security Threat actors are using AI to supercharge tried-and-tested TTPs. When attacks move this fast, cyber-defenders need to rethink their own strategy. Phil Muncaster 07 Apr 2026 • , 4 min. read We stand at an interesting point in the never-ending arms race between attackers and defenders. The former are using AI, automation and a range of techniques to sometimes devastating effect. In fact, one report claims that 80% of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups now…
Read MoreHackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code. Microsoft said in a blog post today it identified more than 200 organizations and 5,000 consumer devices that were caught up…
Read MoreAn elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021. Shchukin was named as UNKN (a.k.a. UNKNOWN) in an advisory published by the German…
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