The FBI, CISA, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Multi-State Information-Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Interlock ransomware.

FBI issues Play ransomware warning as attacks multiply. Update, June 7, 2025: This story, originally published on June 5, has been updated with a new FBI warning regarding yet another critical ...

A ransomware gang exploited the critical React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) to gain initial access to corporate networks and deployed the file-encrypting malware less than a minute later.

Despite successful operations against ransomware gangs in 2024, ransomware was still the most pervasive threat to critical infrastructure in the US last year, according to the FBI’s latest Internet ...

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 ...

Ransomware has always been more than a technical risk—it’s a business, a weapon, and a psychological warfare tool. In my previous Forbes article titled “Ransomware on a Rampage; a New Wake-Up Call,” I ...

The Akira cybercriminal group is believed to be behind a resurgence in attacks exploiting a vulnerability that impacts certain SonicWall firewalls with SSLVPN enabled, according to researchers at ...

The healthcare sector isn’t just under cyber siege, it’s in the middle of a full-blown digital outbreak. Look no further than the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The DBIR ...

The cybercriminal group has broadened its attack scope across several new industries, bringing valid credentials to bear on help desks before leveraging its new learnings of cloud intrusion tradecraft ...

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