ransomware
Kettering Health confirms Interlock ransomware behind cyberattack
Healthcare giant Kettering Health, which manages 14 medical centers in Ohio, confirmed that the Interlock ransomware group breached its network and stole data in a May cyberattack. Kettering Health operates over 120 outpatient facilities and employs over 15,000 people, including over 1,800 physicians. The healthcare network noted in a Thursday statement that its network devices have been […]
Critical Fortinet flaws now exploited in Qilin ransomware attacks
The Qilin ransomware operation has recently joined attacks exploiting two Fortinet vulnerabilities that allow bypassing authentication on vulnerable devices and executing malicious code remotely. Qilin (also tracked as Phantom Mantis) surfaced in August 2022 as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation under the “Agenda” name and has since claimed responsibility for over 310 victims on its dark […]
Interlock ransomware claims Kettering Health breach, leaks stolen data
The Interlock ransomware gang has claimed a recent cyberattack on the Kettering Health healthcare network and leaked data allegedly stolen from breached systems. Kettering Health employs over 15,000 people, including more than 1,800 physicians, and it manages 14 medical centers and over 120 outpatient facilities in western Ohio. The nonprofit organization disclosed a cyberattack on May […]
FBI: Play ransomware breached 900 victims, including critical orgs
In an update to a joint advisory with CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the FBI said that the Play ransomware gang had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, three times the number of victims reported in October 2023. “Since June 2022, the Play (also known as Playcrypt) ransomware group has impacted a […]
Media giant Lee Enterprises says data breach affects 39,000 people
Publishing giant Lee Enterprises is notifying nearly 40,000 people whose personal information was stolen in a February 2025 ransomware attack. As one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, Lee Enterprises publishes 77 daily newspapers and 350 weekly and specialty publications across 26 states. The local news provider’s newspapers have a daily circulation […]
Police takes down AVCheck site used by cybercriminals to scan malware
An international law enforcement operation has taken down AVCheck, a service used by cybercriminals to test whether their malware is detected by commercial antivirus software before deploying it in the wild. The service’s official domain at avcheck.net now displays a seizure banner with the crests of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. […]
Germany doxxes Conti ransomware and TrickBot ring leader
The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) claims that Stern, the leader of the Trickbot and Conti cybercrime gangs, is a 36-year-old Russian named Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev. “The subject is suspected of having been the founder of the ‘Trickbot’ group, also known as ‘Wizard Spider,’” BKA said last week [English PDF], after another round […]
Cybercriminals exploit AI hype to spread ransomware, malware
Threat actors linked to lesser-known ransomware and malware projects now use AI tools as lures to infect unsuspecting victims with malicious payloads. This development follows a trend that has been growing since last year, starting with advanced threat actors using deepfake content generators to infect victims with malware. These lures have become widely adopted by info-stealer malware operators and ransomware operations attempting to […]
Interlock ransomware gang deploys new NodeSnake RAT on universities
The Interlock ransomware gang is deploying a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) named NodeSnake against educational institutes for persistent access to corporate networks. QuorumCyber researchers report seeing NodeSnake’s deployment in at least two cases targeting universities in the UK in January and March 2025. The two malware samples significantly differ, indicating active development to […]
DragonForce ransomware abuses SimpleHelp in MSP supply chain attack
The DragonForce ransomware operation successfully breached a managed service provider and used its SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform to steal data and deploy encryptors on downstream customers’ systems. Sophos was brought in to investigate the attack and believe the threat actors exploited a chain of older SimpleHelp vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-57727, CVE-2024-57728, and CVE-2024-57726 to […]