Nearly 50% of companies paid the ransom to recover their data, the second-highest rate in six years, according to Sophos. How actual payments stack up with the initial demand Ransom payments and recovery costs are on the decline Despite the high percentage of companies that paid the ransom, 53% paid less than the original demand. In 71% of cases where the companies paid less, they did so through negotiation, either through their own negotiations or … More →
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Hollowise is a Windows-based tool that implements process hollowing and PPID (Parent Process ID) spoofing techniques. It allows for stealth execution of debuggers and code and network analizers by replacing the memory of a suspended process (e.g. calc.exe) with...
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The Pakistani cyber-espionage group APT36, also known as Transparent Tribe, has launched a sophisticated new phishing campaign targeting personnel within India’s defense sector. Experts at CYFIRMA have uncovered that the threat actors are employing...
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At the international Botconf conference held in May 2025 in Angers, France, experts from NICT CSRI unveiled the findings of their three-year investigation into the RapperBot malware. Their conclusions were alarming: this evolved variant...
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Experts at NeuralTrust have reported a newly identified and dangerous method of bypassing neural network safeguards, dubbed Echo Chamber. This technique enables bad actors to subtly coax large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT and...
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The British Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) has released its first official assessment of the damage caused by recent cyberattacks that disrupted major retail chains across the country. According to estimates, total financial losses range...
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