Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2026
Keio, a major Japanese railway operator, was hit by ransomware, disrupting business systems and forcing the company to shut down its network. Keio Corporation, one of Japan’s major private railway operators, was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems. The company detected a system failure early Saturday and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2026
Dutch police confirm the arrest of a 24-year-old Amsterdam man as part of an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group. Dutch police confirmed this week that a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested earlier this month as part of an investigation into the cybercrime group ShinyHunters. The suspect appears before Rotterdam District Court today, September […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2026
Microsoft details Storm-3168, the JADEPUFFER-linked actor that used stolen service principals to delete Azure storage in minutes and harvest keys. Microsoft just published the first detailed look at what JADEPUFFER does inside Azure. Sysdig first spotted the group’s activity in July 2026 and called it the first documented agentic ransomware operation. Microsoft tracks the same […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2026
Exploit.in data shows how a 2005 cybercrime forum helped shape today’s ransomware ecosystem, with users and practices surviving for decades. Ransomnews researcher Dancho Danchev dug up a database dump of Exploit.in covering its first three years, from February 2005 to May 2008, and the numbers inside it tell a story about Russian cybercrime that enforcement […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2026
Bitget says suspected North Korea-linked actors stole $351.6M from hot and warm wallets. Withdrawals were suspended while Mandiant investigates. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget says suspected North Korea-linked threat actors stole $351.6 million from a limited number of hot and warm wallets. The company detected unauthorized transfers on September 24 and temporarily suspended withdrawals. Bitget said customer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2026
Ryuk member Karen Vardanyan was sentenced to 24 months in U.S. prison after extradition from Ukraine and ordered to pay $1.2M in restitution. Karen Vardanyan, a 35-year-old Armenian citizen who went by “Maneeken” and, oddly, “Karl Lagerfeld” online, was extradited from Ukraine and sentenced to 24 months in federal prison plus three years of supervised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2026
Cisco Talos finds CLOSEDQUORUM, malware that lets four commercial AI models vote on its next move, with no human operator required. Cisco Talos found malware, dubbed CLOSEDQUORUM, that holds a vote before deciding what to steal from you. Four AI models vote on its next move, without any human interaction. CLOSEDQUORUM is the first Windows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2026
ShinyHunters claims FBI breach via PeopleSoft zero-day, steals staff data; FBI investigating, no confirmation yet. The popular cybercrime group ShinyHunters is claiming that it breached the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and stole sensitive information belonging to FBI employees and job applicants. The group says the operation was not financially motivated and was instead […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2026
Microsoft, Coinbase and law enforcement took down EvilTokens, a phishing kit that compromised 12,000 inboxes through device-code phishing and AI. EvilTokens showed up in February 2026 and moved fast. Within months it had compromised more than 12,000 inboxes across over 10,000 organizations. Microsoft says the EvilTokens platform, operated by Storm-2992, is a phishing-as-a-service kit sold […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2026
Attackers spoofed LastPass on GitHub, used a Microsoft-signed driver to disable 145 security products, then deployed an infostealer. Someone impersonated LastPass on GitHub, got users to download a fake authenticator, and ended up killing 145 different antivirus and EDR products using a driver that Microsoft itself had signed. That last part is the one worth […]
