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Nord Security reports 2,894 ransomware attacks between July and September 2026, a 50% increase year over year and an 8.6% rise over Q2 2026. Researchers attribute the rebound to the market stabilizing after law enforcement takedowns of LockBit, BlackCat and RansomHub, which suppressed activity during 2025. The Gentlemen (383 attacks) narr…
Objective-See analyzed Heartbreaker, a previously unknown macOS ransomware sample (ad hoc-signed ARM64 Mach-O written in Rust). It was uploaded to VirusTotal in May 2025 and remains undetected by all AV engines. It was found by researcher Megan Carney. It encrypts files in ~/Downloads with AES-256-GCM, renames them to .heartbreaker, drops…
Conduent has agreed to pay $80m to settle a class action over the October 2024 cyber incident that exposed personal and health data of roughly 62 million people. The filing was submitted to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026, and confirmed in an 8-K filing with the SEC. The attack was allegedly carrie…
A 28-year-old Russian man, identified by German media only as "Vladimir K", has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of being a key member of the Qilin ransomware gang. He was first detained in Japan in May while on holiday and was extradited to Germany earlier this month. German investigators are examining possible links between him and…
Trend Micro disclosed its part in a multinational law enforcement operation against the LockBit ransomware group, working with the FBI and the NCA. Per the vendor, undercover infiltration helped prevent the release of the group's next malware product, LockBit-NG-Dev, and Trend customers received protection before LockBit had finished test…
CRPx0 is a cybercrime operation that began as a scam and then pivoted into a full ransomware and cryptocurrency business. The source is a short Fortra blog teaser by Graham Cluley that points to a fuller article. The teaser gives no victim names, sectors, technical details, IOCs, CVEs, TTPs or attribution beyond the operation's name. Defe…
N0n is a newly emerged cyber extortion group first spotted in mid-September 2026. Within days it had published details of what it claimed were around a dozen victims on its dark web leak site, and the tally has continued to grow. The source is a short Fortra blog teaser by Graham Cluley that points to a fuller article. The teaser gives no…
Krybit is described as a fast-growing ransomware group that was reportedly hacked by a rival gang, retaliated, and is still extorting victims. The source is a short Fortra blog teaser by Graham Cluley, which points to a fuller article covering how the group operates, who it has targeted and how organisations can protect themselves. The te…
An actor using the handle WolfBlxck posted an updated recruitment announcement for Beelzebub ransomware. The actor claims the malware was rewritten from scratch with a stronger focus on disabling endpoint defenses, suppressing telemetry and hindering incident response. The post seeks three more members: a developer, a penetration tester a…
Organizations are reporting that ransomware operators are escalating extortion with threats of stalking, physical violence and abduction aimed at employees. The article says these claims are difficult to verify. The reports point to a possible shift toward real-world intimidation of staff and their families as pressure during extortion. T…
The arrest of a well-known ransomware negotiator has raised concerns that a trusted intermediary in extortion cases may have worked for the adversary's side. The article, a Dark Reading commentary by Terry J. Maxwell, argues the case shows a critical need for vendor program oversight when organizations hire third parties to handle ransomw…
Rapid7's Q3 2026 threat landscape report finds that high-severity vulnerabilities were exploited an average of three days after disclosure, with 71% exploited within the first seven days. 79% of them are classed as 'holy grail' flaws, meaning remote and needing no credentials or user interaction. Ransomware remains the dominant threat. Th…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued reprimands, not fines, to Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales (Data Cymru) over a ransomware attack on 1 November 2024 (theregister.com, infosecurity-magazine.com). The intruder entered Data Cymru's network through a forgotten test account, Test2 (…
An $80 million settlement has been proposed to resolve the consolidated class action In Re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The suit stems from the 2024 breach at Conduent Business Services, LLC, in which an unauthorized party had network access from Octo…
SentinelOne argues that "EDR killer" covers four different techniques, and a single driver-load rule leaves blind spots. The four are bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver (BYOVD), bring-your-own-installer, admin-to-kernel, and driverless suspension. The article gives hunt logic for each and recommends rolling them out in order of signal quali…
Episode 484 of the Smashing Security podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with guest Danny Palmer, covers several security stories. The lead item is audio fingerprinting: a user named Matt found that an open AliExpress page, playing silent audio at zero volume, kept his multipoint Bluetooth headphones from switching to his phone. The episode …
A court in Zurich sentenced an unnamed 52-year-old Ukrainian man to 12 years and nine months in prison and banned him from Switzerland for ten years. The court found him to be the lead developer of the LockerGoga, MegaCortex and Nefilim ransomware families. Victims include Norsk Hydro, Stadler Rail (500 GB stolen in 2020, reported US $6 m…
A Flare analysis argues that Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$ and ShinyHunters are distinct intrusion clusters within The Com, a decentralized, mostly English-speaking cybercriminal subculture, and not interchangeable names for one group. It describes SP1D3R HUNTERS (also called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, SLH) as a shared brand and coordination …
A Semperis survey, covered by HIPAA Journal, finds ransomware groups increasingly threatening victims' employees and their families as the share of victims paying ransoms falls from 78% in 2024 to 69% in 2025 and 59% in 2026. Of the attacks surveyed, 37% involved threats against friends or family of staff, and 41% of respondents said they…
The Semperis 2026 Ransomware Risk Report, published on October 14, warns that ransomware operators are increasingly threatening the physical safety of CISOs, executives and other senior staff at victim organizations to force payment. The report says a quarter of ransomware campaigns now involve psychological or physical threats against em…
