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A new spy campaign by Mustang Panda uses fake US diplomatic briefings to target government officials. Discover how this silent surveillance operation works.
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Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. Check Point Research is tracking the previously undocumented activity cluster under the moniker Amaranth-Dragon, which it said shares links to the APT 41 ecosystem. Targeted countries include Cambodia,
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TP-Link has disclosed multiple critical authenticated command injection vulnerabilities affecting the Archer BE230 v1.2 Wi-Fi router, enabling attackers with administrative access to execute arbitrary commands and seize complete control of affected devices. Security researchers jro, caprinuxx, and sunshinefactory discovered nine distinct vulnerabilities tracked under separate CVE identifiers. The flaws impact various components of the router’s […]
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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 4, 2026Cybersecurity Ventures publishes a chart at RansomwareCost.com containing our calculations of global ransomware damage cost predictions from 2015 to 2031.
For this year, 2026, we predict that ransomware costs will reach $74 billion annually. The 2026 calculation breaks down to $6.2 billion per month, $1.42 billion per week, $203 million per day, $8.5 million per hour, $141,000 per minute, and $2,400 per second.
Our first ever prediction, for 2015, put the annual cost of ransomware at $325 million. Another way to look at it is that we predict ransomware will cost the world more than $20 billion per month in 2031, up from $20 billion per year in 2021.
Ransomware costs include ransom negotiations and payouts, damage and destruction of data, stolen money, downtime, lost productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial data, embezzlement, fraud, post-attack disruption to the normal course of business, forensic investigation, restoration and deletion of hacked data and systems, reputational harm, legal costs, and potentially, regulatory fines.
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A highly sophisticated offensive cloud operation targeting an AWS environment.The attack was notable for its extreme speed taking less than 10 minutes to go from initial entry to full administrative control and its heavy reliance on AI automation. The threat actor initiated the attack by discovering valid credentials left exposed in public Simple Storage Service […]
The post New AI-Powered Threat Allows Hackers to Gain AWS Admin Access in Minutes appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Washington, DC, 4th February 2026, CyberNewsWire
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A new threat called PhantomVAI, a custom “loader” used to launch cyberattacks worldwide. A loader is a type of malicious software designed to secretly download and start other dangerous programs on a victim’s computer. What makes PhantomVAI special is that it is built on top of an old, publicly available tool called “RunPE”. This loader […]
The post PhantomVAI Custom Loader Abuses RunPE Utility to Launch Stealthy Attacks on Users appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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An innovative approach to discovering, analyzing, and governing identity usage beyond traditional IAM controls. The Challenge: Identity Lives Outside the Identity Stack Identity and access management tools were built to govern users and directories. Modern enterprises run on applications. Over time, identity logic has moved into application code, APIs, service accounts, and custom authentication
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A severe vulnerability affecting ASUSTOR Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices has been disclosed, potentially allowing unauthenticated attackers to seize full control of affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2026-24936, this critical flaw carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 9.5, highlighting the urgency for administrators to apply available updates immediately. The vulnerability resides within the ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) […]
The post Critical ASUSTOR NAS Security Flaw Enables Complete Device Takeover appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Interlock ransomware operators have been observed using a new process‑killing tool that abuses a zero‑day flaw in a gaming anti‑cheat kernel driver to try to shut down endpoint defenses (EDR/AV). The activity was documented during an intrusion against a North America–based education organization and shows Interlock continuing to evolve its internal tooling rather than relying […]
The post Interlock Ransomware Exploits Zero-Day in Gaming Anti-Cheat Driver to Disable EDR, AV appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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