Most cyber attacks are money-driven, so in the majority of cases, cyber criminals look for the simplest route to monetise their activity the quickest. This can be through selling confidential data, but increasingly more often, malicious actors are selling their unauthorised access to other attackers, driving demand for illegal access obtained through ransomware affiliates.
As a result, with hacking tools on the rise, experienced ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) affiliates can impact the continuity of business on a much larger scale, escalating what may have started as simply the hack of one IT system.
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AI isn't taking anyone's jobs, finds Yale study – at least not yetReviews Researchers say it's too soon to know what generative AI's impact will be on the workforce
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Government invests £1 million in program to boost regional technews In an effort to expand tech growth outside the south-east, projects are being funded across the UK
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NCA confirms arrest after airport cyber disruptionNews Disruption is easing across Europe following the ransomware incident
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Cyber professionals are losing sleep over late night attacksNews Hackers are biding their time and launching attacks when businesses can’t respond
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Prolific ransomware operator added to Europe’s Most Wanted list as US dangles $10 million rewardNews The US Department of Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Volodymyr Viktorovych Tymoshchuk, an alleged ransomware criminal.
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Jaguar Land Rover “did the right thing” shutting down systems to thwart cyber attackNews The attack on Jaguar Land Rover highlights the growing attractiveness of the automotive sector
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Ransomware attack on IT supplier disrupts hundreds of Swedish municipalitiesNews The attack on IT systems supplier Miljödata has impacted public sector services across the country
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A notorious hacker group is ramping up cloud-based ransomware attacksNews The Storm-0501 threat group is refining its tactics, according to Microsoft, shifting away from traditional endpoint-based attacks and toward cloud-based ransomware.
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Security researchers have just identified what could be the first ‘AI-powered’ ransomware strain – and it uses OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b modelNews Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b model, ‘PromptLock’ generates malicious Lua scripts via the Ollama API.
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Data I/O shuts down systems in wake of ransomware attack
News Regulatory filings by Data I/O suggest the costs of dealing with the attack could be significant
